After several days of questioning, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) on Thursday, October 26th finally announced what penalty would be meted out to its Senior Petroleum Coordinator, Gopnauth `Bobby’ Gossai over the scandalous, unauthorised miniaturising of disputed oil expenses in clandestine discussions with ExxonMobil.
Guns are back in the news again, this time as a topic on the agenda of the Canada-Caricom summit ten days ago.
News early Monday morning that American oil major Chevron was snapping up Hess and its multi-billion barrels of oil offshore Guyana came as a surprise even to those in the energy industry.
Yesterday it was reported that the Sectoral Committee on Foreign Relations had agreed for a motion to be laid in Parliament about mounting a public sensitisation campaign on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.
One of the more poignant comments from the latest citizens to respond to Stabroek News’s question about the effects of the cost of living, published on Monday, October 23, came from an empty nester, whose wife sells produce from their kitchen garden to supplement their income.
Today everything on four wheels and two wheels is in a tremendous hurry.
Arguably the most disturbing element of our contemporary urban entertainment culture is the various dysfunctional ways in which it imposes itself on normal life, including the legitimate pursuits and normal entitlements of other sections of the society.
Robert Moses was a bundle of contradictions: He never held political office but for almost half a century he was the most powerful man in New York State who routinely ignored the phone calls of the four mayors and five governors he outlasted.
On Friday the public in this country was made aware of some supreme eyepass on the part of Venezuela.
And just like that, an Australian company which invested some US$90m here from 2014 to produce 110,000 ounces of gold per annum has picked up and fled in the dark of the night leaving huge debts to the state, a scarred landscape in Region Seven, workers bereft and numerous questions about the conduct of multinationals.
The day before yesterday the government issued a press release stating it had taken note of “various social media posts” which had indicated that the number of Venezuelan soldiers close to our “borders” had increased, and that they were engaged in military exercises.
Based on the available data that over half of its population over 15 years old drink more than the recommended amount of alcohol, Canada, earlier this week, released its first ever clinical guideline for treating high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder (AUD).
On Monday, at the 141st Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it was announced that the IOC’s Olympic Programme Commission (OPC) and Executive Board (EB) had accepted a proposal from the organisers of the 2028 Summer Olympic Games (LA28) to add five sports, namely, baseball/softball, cricket (T/20), flag football, lacrosse (sixes), and squash to the quadrennial event.
No keen observer of the contemporary condition of industrial relations in Guyana would seriously challenge the view that the trade union movement remains enmeshed in a protracted condition of limbo that has palpably compromised its ability to effectively discharge its responsibility to provide meaningful representation for its constituency, the country’s workers.
In what should increasingly trouble citizens as to the manner in which public funds are going down the drain, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority(NDIA) of the Ministry of Agriculture on October 9th acknowledged major issues with several pump stations including the cancellation of an almost $1b contract at Black Bush Polder.
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has little time for diplomacy, and he was in characteristic form in his press conference last week.
One might understand arguments proffered by governments of the past that they have not had the means to pay a living wage to public sector workers.
“The Guyana Peace Council abhors the declaration of war by Israel against the Palestinian people which has already claimed the lives of over two thousand people, on both sides, the majority of whom are civilians,” begins an eccentric letter published in our newspaper yesterday.
The world observed International Day of the Girl Child yesterday. As is normal with these observances, global data relevant to the year just past punctuated the websites of the many agencies dedicated to girls, children and gender issues.
The Caribbean Dictionary online defines ‘bazodee’ as, among other things, being dumbfounded, dazed or stunned.
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