Editorial

On Wednesday afternoon at 4.30, misfortune struck the East Bank Demerara communities of Peter’s Hall, Nandy Park and Providence.

Despite the large marches and impassioned rhetoric, the UN’s recent Climate Week was mostly just another reminder of how hard it has become to achieve any progress on global climate change.

Reports from Port-au-Prince indicate that it was with some surprise that Haitians learnt of the death of their former president, Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, last Saturday, whose rule was addressed in our editorial on Tuesday.

The taping, posting on social media and sharing of a video of schoolchildren involved in sex acts is to be condemned in the strongest language possible.

A little under two years since President Barack Obama won re-election in November of 2012, he finds himself embroiled in a series of global confrontations that he must hardly have bargained for on the day of his inauguration in January of 2013.

History remembers Haiti for a host of reasons. The country owns the distinction of being the first in the Western hemisphere to secure independence.

In a press release on Thursday, the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr Khurshid Sattaur has acknowledged that the GRA had compiled information on an initial analysis of the income of media houses for the purposes of an audit of the Kaieteur News.

Last week Gina reported that President Donald Ramotar had met Guyanese in Washington and Queens, New York, in the course of his visit to the United Nations, and that he had asked them to return home and invest in the country’s economy.

The forthcoming local election in Clacton-on-Sea, a small coastal town in Essex, was all but unknown to outsiders up to a week ago.

Yesterday, Dr Radovan Karadzic, 69, the former leader of Republika Srpska, the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina, was scheduled to have wound up his closing argument in his trial at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

News surfaced recently regarding a young Amerindian woman who said she was drugged and raped by more than one man at the hotel where she worked in Mahdia, Region Eight.

As the nations of the world got together at the United Nations last week to discuss the state of the world, they found themselves having to contemplate increasing war, rather than the prospects of peace and development.

After school had reassembled for the start of the new academic year barely three weeks ago, small groups of children could still be seen roaming some streets in the middle of the morning.

One wonders why the Guyanese public continues to have to suffer the agony of charter-type operations with inadequate resources and tenuous relations with their air carriers.

While the local political scene is in turmoil, President Donald Ramotar is enjoying a respite away from it all at the United Nations.

The glut of recent stories whose prominence was due to footage that could be easily shared by online communities shows the growing influence of social media on how we gather and respond to the news.

Undeterred by the result of the Scottish referendum announced early on September 19, Catalonia’s parliament, later that very day, authorised its president, by a vote of 106 to 28, to proceed with a referendum similar to the Scottish one on November 9.

Today is Orange Day. For those who may not be aware, Orange Day is observed on the 25th day of every month as a call to wear orange in support of the struggle to end violence against women and girls.

The campaign, and the vote in Scotland on that region’s separation from the United Kingdom, will have reminded West Indians over a certain age of the 1961 referendum in Jamaica, conceded by the Conservative British Government, on whether to stay in the West Indies Federation.

In just over a week’s time GuyExpo would have come and gone without us being any closer to being able to identify in specific and concrete terms just what particular benefits the event has brought to the country.