Editorial

Interest in the current process leading to presidential elections in the United States in November, will surely be increasing in the Caribbean as in the rest of the world.

Given the wide-ranging nature of the brief handed the Commission of Inquiry into the Guyana Public Service by President David Granger last year it is a marvel that its work has been completed and its findings handed over in what, contextually, is a relatively short space of time. 

In an era of continually eroding standards and the absence of pride and professionalism in so many spheres of life, the late Tony Cozier represented the very best of traditions.

Guyana is a land of mysteries. The problem is that many of them never seem to get solved.

Walk into a modern newsroom and you will likely notice something that was unimaginable just a few years ago: screens with real-time updates on “trending” stories from the outlet’s website.

No one in this country should feel comfortable about what is going on in Venezuela at the present time. 

The aftermath of the observance of Mother’s Day this year has been both bloody and horrific.

We revert to a look at the political campaign proceeding in Britain towards a referendum promised by Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative government on whether the country should remain in the European Union (EU), due on June 23 of this year.

The ensuing Lailac milk brouhaha involving the Ministry of Public Health, the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) and the private sector distributor, International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA), lays bare the longstanding and abject weakness of the authorities in the matter of the effective enforcement of regulations that have to do with monitoring the importation of foreign-manufactured foods into the country.

Wednesday’s release on the Ministry of Finance’s website of the forensic audit into the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) provided evidence of what has long been suspected about the PPP/C’s style of government particularly under former President Jagdeo.

More than any other president who has served in this country, President David Granger appears to have a penchant for renaming things.

A recent BBC documentary on the Obama years ends with a surprising conclusion.

Last Saturday, more than 300 Guyanese gathered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to celebrate Guyana’s Golden Jubilee.

Having just endured a crippling drought marked by significant loss of crops and savannah fires,  Region Nine must now look to guard against water-borne diseases that could affect residents now that the rains have returned, bringing with them the possibility of contamination of the shallow wells persons normally use to access potable water.

Clearly, in anticipation of the Democratic and Republican party conventions due in the second half of July, the competition between those seeking nomination for candidacy of the presidency becomes increasingly intense, while at the same time gradually indicating a degree of certainty as to what the conclusions will be like.

The symbolism of last Sunday’s ‘unified’ May Day march that brought trade unions representing the GTUC and FITUG under a single umbrella has moved the local labour movement no closer to the hoped-for healing, nor, perhaps more importantly, did it do anything to conceal the fact that, in large measure, political partisanship continues to trump what the labour movement calls workers’ unity.

On April 8, the Ministry of Business issued a statement in which it said that the government had given the green light to a proposal from the Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin for a ‘Trusted Trader’ programme to benefit legitimate businesses.

The raid on the Ramada Princess in the early hours of Friday marked a new stage in our never-ending crime saga.

In the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, a short walk from Taksim Square, a tourist may pause to admire the graffiti.

The ongoing political and economic crisis in Venezuela has deteriorated dramatically.