Editorial

Guyana is one of those countries whose politicians live in the past. 

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the international body for assessing the science related to climate change – released its latest report which implores governments to up their commitments before 2030, to reach net zero by 2050, in order to keep warming in or around 1.5 C by 2100.

One week tomorrow is the Opening Day for the 2023 Major League Baseball (MLB) season and for the first time since 1968 every team (30 today as compared to 20 in 1968) will be playing its first game on the same day.

The report published in last Friday’s issue of the Stabroek News regarding the physical assault on Fort Wellington Secondary School teacher Marlon Daniels by relatives of a student who both Mr.

As if there was some monumental exigency, the government on March 10th hurriedly signed virtually a US$34m contract with a German company for the rollout of an electronic citizenship card which is intended to contain a wide range of personal information including a tax ID number, blood type etc.

Leader of the PNCR Aubrey Norton has finally spoken on the inflammatory and racist statements made by Mr Tacuma Ogunseye in Buxton the week before last. 

Financial capitalism is inherently unstable: busts follow booms as investors take bigger risks in search of greater returns before the whole house of cards comes crashing down.

On Sunday we reported on an open letter sent to President Irfaan Ali by Environment and Democracy activist Simone Mangal-Joly, where she criticized the recent appointees to the Environmental Assessment Board. 

In January this year, when Minister of Public Works Deodat Indar announced the award of $792 million and $865 million in contracts to build roads in Wakenaam and Leguan respectively, he revealed the specifications, which were that they would be constructed of rigid pavement concrete.

In a few short months, another group of our students will be graduating from high school and contemplating stepping into the world of work, or heading straight to a tertiary institution for continuing education or skills training.

What one had hoped might have been a comprehensive update on the pace of progress towards the completion of the eagerly awaited Regional Food Terminal coinciding with last month’s 2023 Barbados Agro Fest event, did not materialize.

On January 10th this year, in some of the bluntest language that she had delivered on the subject, the Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag) Yonette Cummings-Edwards  made a stirring plea for the urgent reconstituting of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the appointment of the required number of judges.

For those without access to social media the statement issued by Brigadier Godfrey Bess on Friday must have been something of a puzzle, since no full context for it was given.

One of the distillates of the brouhaha over Guyana’s suspension from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is the question of the alleged four-month absence of National Coordinator Dr Prem Misir of the Guyana-EITI from his desk.

Last Friday Police Commissioner (ag) Clifton Hicken summoned his senior regional Traffic Officers to Eve Leary for a meeting.

When Guyana joined the rest of the world in commemorating International Women’s Day (IWD) yesterday, there was cause for celebration, but also cause for mourning.

If you are beginning to imagine that you are witnessing a live version of the 2006 film ‘The Prestige’ unfold in front of you here in Guyana you should not worry.

Speaking at the opening of the 32nd meeting of the CARICOM Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on September 18, 2009, former long-serving Secretary General, Edwin Carrington acknowledged that despite numerous policies, initiatives and strategies, the integration movement had not been able to effectively transform its ideas and plans for agriculture into an “acceptable reality”.

A few years have now elapsed since cricket fans in the region have ceased to descend into abysses of moaning and groaning each time that ‘our boys’ have sunk into the doldrums of one of those familiar defeats. 

At the end of last month a Brazilian helicopter pilot and a labourer were charged with various offences including disembarking without the consent of an Immigration Officer and breaches of the Civil Aviation Act.