Editorial

The Guyana Teachers Union has called on teachers to strike from tomorrow unless there is a favourable response from the Ministry of Education and other relevant authorities to its proposals for salary increases and non-salary benefits.

To argue against this budget is like complaining about a spouse’s shopping list.

Some things never change, and so it is with the Integrity Commission.

By mid-year, all things considered, including the disposal of threatened legal action, New York will implement a congestion charge on nearly all vehicles entering Manhattan below 60th Street.

“You are no longer the same after experiencing art”- Milton  Glaser, designer of the iconic “I Love New York” logo On 23rd December last, Eric Anthony ‘Tony’ Phillips, another son of our soil, passed away in Australia, where he had migrated to in 1978.

It would have been pure theatre were it not so decidedly worrisome.

There aren’t enough superlatives to frame the courageous single-mindedness of Baracara’s and Guyana’s Shamar Joseph in leading the West Indies to this marvellous  victory over Australia in the wee hours of yesterday.

In October last year President Irfaan Ali decided to undermine talks which his government had previously been holding with the Guyana Teachers’ Union and meet the teachers himself to hear their complaints.

As a modern form of influence on the lives of individuals, social media platforms of the digital age make television, the previous generations’ vehicle for the cues of choice, appear almost sloth-like when it comes to creating new trends and fads, and pinpointing new avenues in fashion and lifestyles.

First the word came from President Irfaan Ali, and then it was repeated two weeks later by Finance Minister Ashni Singh during his Budget presentation.

As harbingers go, July 2023 certainly packed a wallop. Pegged as the hottest month ever recorded in history by global climate scientists, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in some places, it is unfortunately not likely to be an anomaly and worse yet, will surely be surpassed in the future.

This year, 2024, there occurred a notable departure in the media’s approach to reporting on the budget presentation by Senior Minister in the Ministry of Finance Dr.

Among its Terms of Reference (TORs), the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the May 21th  fire at the Mahdia Secondary School female dormitory was asked to: inquire into and report on the events and circumstances leading up to and the cause of the inferno and to make such recommendations and observations deemed fit including measures and actions that the Commission may consider necessary and appropriate to prevent the recurrence of such tragedy.

In Part 58 of how the Cost of Living is affecting People published in this newspaper, Timehri Base Road resident Lillowtie Hurdial detailed her tribulations.

In the heady days of November 2020 when the government had only been in office a few months and President Irfaan Ali was seeking to steer the country in novel directions, he met his Suriname counterpart President Chandrikapersad Santokhi in Paramaribo.

Much has been written about income safety nets in the past eight years since Guyana was lucky enough to find out it was sitting on billions of barrels of oil and thus expecting revenues that can be deployed for the welfare of all its citizens.

Parliament is at the centre of our democracy, or at least, that is the theory.

Already creating havoc across the world, continuously rising sea levels owing to climate change are projected to expand coastal flooding over the next two decades, negatively affecting human and economic development.

On New Year’s Day Britain’s television viewers were presented with the first episode of a new television drama series, “Mr Bates vs the Post Office” on the Independent Television network (ITV).

One of the Caribbean Community’s foremost current collective preoccupation, its ongoing response to what has been determined to be a food security crisis, has returned to the fore in the light of information that has surfaced in the media regarding the launch of an intra-regional ferry service which, in the words of Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr.