By way of a letter in the SN dated December 30, 2010, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Mr Dindyal Permaul disclosed that veterinarian and Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr Steve Surujbally had been appointed as Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA).
A quick recap of the big news stories from last year shows just how random our impressions of the world have become in an age of nonstop broadcasting.
Tonight at midnight, as we say goodbye to the Old Year and usher in 2011, the strains of ‘Auld lang syne’ will be heard at parties across the country, and many of us will sing or warble a rendition of the traditional ballad.
On Friday December 24, Christmas Eve, Mr Lyndon ‘Jumbie’ Jones, a well-known local actor, stand-up comedian and MC, was invited to the police station by police officers who knew him, and once there he was placed behind bars where he remained until Monday, December 27.
As 2010 recedes, there can be little doubt that much that was hoped for, by way of economic and social performance in most our Caricom countries, has not seen the light of day.
Quite a few thieves, would-be thieves and suspected thieves have been caught and mercilessly beaten by outraged residents of the communities that they have targeted.
Christmas in Guyana is a time when optimism for our possible futures seems most plausible.
For many Guyanese who followed his career from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, he was the closest thing we had to a non-political national hero.
In three days, the holiday most celebrated universally will have come and gone.
In the face of post-earthquake distortions of the Haitian society and economy, it would hardly have been expected that elections for the presidency would have gone particularly smoothly.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Service in particular have not grown or prospered under the PPP/Civic administration.
However he may try to spin it, the record will show that President Jagdeo described Guyana’s experience tapping forest protection funds from Norway as a “nightmare”.
Mr Ramotar, the General Secretary of the PPP, is becoming rather well travelled.
A decade from now, perhaps even sooner, newsprint may be as marginal to our daily lives as video cassettes and vinyl records.
The Christmas season is well under way and apart from the festive libations, the nostalgic juices are also in full flow.
More than a month ago, Babita Sarjou, a 28-year-old mother of one, left her mother’s house in the morning after stating that she would be back home by around 9 pm.
The Cariforum’s signing of an Economic Partnership with the European Union, hesitant as some Caricom member states might have been, marked a recognition on our part that much of our relations with the United Kingdom would henceforth proceed in terms of an engagement with that integration movement.
There is a sense in which Dr Leslie Ramsammy’s recent public statement announcing the termination of the employment of Dr Vishwamintra Persaud at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation departs significantly from the posture usually taken by government ministers and other high officials in the face of blunders and wrongdoings inside their ministry or department.
A reading of the report entitled “Preliminary Inquiry into the Fire Aboard Trawler `Captain Lloyd 97’’ leaves one wondering whether any part of the government functions remotely how it should.
This is a very unusual election season in so far as we still do not know who the main presidential candidates will be – the AFC excepted.
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