Recent television pictures of a frail, listless-looking Nelson Mandela accompanying news reports of a bout of illness which took him into hospital briefly serve as a poignant reminder of the mortality of South Africa’s iconic first black President.
In what was a fruitful encounter, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Friday breakfasted with the media during which it laid out its priority projects and issues it would like to be addressed.
It is certainly not unknown for the nerve centre of official communications in this country to disseminate bizarre statements, but the one which filtered into the inboxes of unsuspecting media houses on Tuesday was exceptional even by Gina’s none too balanced standards.
The apparent suicide of a nurse in London, a few days after she had been hoaxed by Australian radio DJs who pretended to be members of the royal family, has highlighted the difficulty of effectively regulating the media in a digital age.
Addressing a summit of leaders from the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), in Brasilia, on December 7, President Donald Ramotar alluded to our fabled continental destiny in his assertion that while Guyana attaches “significant importance” to its membership of Caricom, his government also believes that “continental integration has become more relevant and necessary for further development.”
It is bad enough that for more than two decades, residents of and visitors to Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, have had their senses assaulted by the sight and smell of garbage.
Over the last three weeks, Kamla Persad Bissessar’s People’s Partnership Government of Trinidad and Tobago experienced something approximating to a political trauma.
The end of protracted political regimes under the control of powerful, strong-willed rulers and driven by cults of personality are almost always attended by succession struggles.
Inevitably, the release of the annual Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index with its continued low ranking of Guyana has sparked denunciations of the survey from the government and sections of the ruling party.
Last week this newspaper reported on a picketing exercise protesting the decision to locate the monument commemorating the 1823 rising along the seawall opposite Camp Ayanganna.
After months of investigation, hearings and analysis, a comprehensive report from the Leveson inquiry has recommended that the British press have a new self-regulation body backed by legislation.
Despite a new methodology and scoring system, Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has once again given Guyana an extremely low mark (28 out of 100 points) on its annual report card.
We are living in exciting times. Technology that was not even a dream 30 years ago is available in the palm of our hands.
Last week Barbados celebrated its 46th anniversary of independence in the midst of what was obviously a strong sense of popular anticipation of general elections in the very near future.
The statement by the Chinese Association seemingly in response to an article in another section of the media regarding the presence of Chinese entrepreneurs in Guyana is, in several respects, an interesting one.
Why Guyana – with all of its problems and urgent needs – would have required a National Intelligence Centre (NIC) is quite a mystery which neither the government nor the NIC has explained to the public.
There is nothing more depressing than George-town on a wet day.
On Thursday, Syria’s state-run telecommunications establishment cut internet access to the entire country.
For some years now, there has been, pretty much on a daily basis, an unrelenting litany of bad news in the local media.
Fancy a little light calculus after dinner this evening? Or perhaps a slice of world history?
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