Editorial

In December last year the opposition asked in Parliament that the Minister of Home Affairs give a breakdown of the number of Venezuelan migrants in each region. 

On Sunday, September 22, 2024, at about 5.17 pm, Commander of Regional Police Division #1 Superintendent Krishna Ramana, ASP Kooldeep, Corporal Pachai, and Constable Fredrick were on mobile patrol along the Pakera road in Matthews Ridge, North West District, when they stopped a Black Toyota Fielder Wagon vehicle with registration number PAH 4429.

Sometimes the authorities seem to get their categorizations confused. Nowhere was this more evident than in the case of Mr Sheldon Baharally, a declared Christian, who complained about the noise nuisance from a nearby church in Mabaruma.

Social protection, the overall strategy needed to help safeguard against poverty, social exclusion, and vulnerability, is on the uptick.

Yesterday, Tuesday, 1st October, James Earl Carter Jr., – Jimmy Carter to the world – the 39th President of the United States of America, celebrated his 100th birthday, the first former American President to hit the milestone.

More than a year ago, on June 14, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture announced in a media release, that over 2,500 “farmers, agro processors, wholesalers and retailers now have access to certified agro-processing facilities in their regions.”

In a week, it will be one year since Hamas launched its heinous attack on Israel, butchering people and seizing hostages in the biggest surprise offensive since Yom Kippur on October 6th 1973 when the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched their war to recapture territory lost in 1967.

Mr Charles Ramson is Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport. While his role in the Sport component of his portfolio is at least visible, the opposite is the case when it comes to Culture, except when his Ministry has to organize public events.

On September 24th, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo made the eye-opening claim that 95 percent of public projects under this administration have been completed successfully.

Last Tuesday this newspaper published an article by Mr Greg Quinn, a former British High Commissioner to this country entitled ‘Why Guyana should not appease Venezuela and Maduro’.

In July this year, global anti-tourist sentiments hit a new high, particularly in Europe.

Over the last week there has been a flurry of excitement and discussion on various social media platforms on, of all subjects, Guyanese Creolese vocabulary.

The Caribbean has always had a proclivity for deploying hype and hoopla in its promotion of goals/targets set in pursuit of some pre-determined development-related objective.

On September 17, the Jamaican Integrity Commission (IC) submitted a report to Parliament which revealed that Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness had been under investigation for illicit enrichment.

x While there are plenty of earnest comments floating around about how we need to reform the Constitution, and while that intention was inscribed in the manifestos of the major political parties, nothing much has happened.

Ending Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as a public health threat here by 2030 will take much effort as it will all around the world.

No one could have accused St Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of equivocation when he spoke to this newspaper on Saturday; on the contrary he was disarmingly candid and clear-cut.

Thirty years ago the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action was adopted by 179 countries.

In 1849, the French critic, journalist and novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr penned the adage “plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose” – “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.

Guest Editorial President Irfaan Ali’s recent comment embracing concerns over Guyana’s performance or underperformance at Mathematics based on the recently released results of this year’s CXC examinations and his call for an urgent probe into what he rightly appears to believe is the country’s decided math’s deficit comes against the backdrop of previously expressed concerns over what is now seen across the region as an obdurate crisis that refuses to go away with the passage of time.