Editorial

The Caribbean, it seems, among other developing and underdeveloped regions, can identify with at least one takeaway from the now concluded COP 27 Climate Change forum   which,  despite having drifted considerably into ‘overtime,’ failed to arrive at agreements commensurate with the sense of urgency associated with the extent of the global menace which climate change represents.

On October 30th, a US-based Guyanese, Gladstone Haynes, 43, disappeared while touring Orinduik Falls in Region Eight.

The PPP/C has no qualms about breaking the law and certainly no qualms about contravening international conventions to which the government is signatory if it perceives it is in its interest to do so.

The streets of Georgetown must not be allowed to become some parking lot/warehouse/ container terminal for Big Business.

A report in in US business magazine Forbes, the conclusions from which we published on Sunday, has said that of all sovereign countries with populations of at least 75,000, Guyana accounts for the biggest share of its native-born population – 36.4% − living abroad when compared to the rest of the world.

To ‘give Jack his jacket’, a popular saying in this part of the world, President Irfaan Ali’s move away from his predecessors’ groupthink to show genuine concern for the state of Georgetown is to be commended.

Last week Tuesday, prior to the start of the first semifinal of the 2022 ICC T20 World Cup, at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia, three new members were inducted to the ICC Hall of Fame: former West Indian Test batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, former England Women’s Cap-tain, Charlotte Edwards and the late Pakistan Test leg spinner Abdul Qadir, the 107th, 108th, and 109th inductees, respectively.

The fact that the Chief Executive Officer of the Trinidad and Tobago-based company Ramps  logistics opted to cite what he saw as the fairness of the judicial system in the aftermath of the court’s ruling that  deemed as unlawful the decision by the Local Content Secretariat to make available to the company, by yesterday, a Local Content Certificate for which it has properly applied and was legally entitled to, was good for the  country’s judicial system no less than it was for the overall image of the country, not least, external perceptions of the integrity of its business culture.

It must be concerning that days after an exit ceremony for an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-financed citizen security programme that a man should have died in a ward of the capital, the victim of a stray bullet from a shoot-out between youth gangs.

President Irfaan Ali’s academic thesis was on regional and urban planning, so the citizens of this land might have been justified in assuming that his government would have been more committed to introducing a measure of order into our built environment than what the evidence would currently suggest is the case.

Last Friday Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo unveiled features of a new model Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) to apply to all oil and gas concessions outside of the Stabroek Block.

Last week AFC President Cathy Hughes said at her party’s weekly press conference that parliamentary scrutiny of government was being hindered by the fact that certain key committees were not functioning. 

Amid the twin troubles of climate change and food insecurity is the predicament of the ongoing degradation of arable land.

The word protocol is derived from the combination of two ancient Greek words, protos (first) and kollao (attach); literally translating into attached first.

Watching the ninety-odd world leaders arrange themselves for the official COP 27 Heads of Government portrait one is  reminded of the yawning gender imbalance amongst the lineup of world leaders in favour of males and by extension the gender-skewed imbalance in the distribution of power.

There is no doubt that the public health system is providing an invaluable service to women at its pre-natal clinics, maternity wards and ante-natal facilities.

It was last July that President Irfaan Ali made his appearance at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre fully attired in Saudi Arabian dress to discuss investment with a trade delegation from the kingdom.

On August 11 2021, in the final days of the chaotic retreat from Afghanistan by history’s mightiest military power, a C-17 plane landed at Kabul airport to deliver supplies.

SOCU was set up in 2013 as a specialised unit within the Guyana Police Force to investigate allegations and reports in respect of money laundering and terrorism.

In 72 hours, world leaders or their representatives, heads of international non-governmental organisations, climate activists and others will come together for the UN Climate Conference (CoP27) at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in the Arab Republic of Egypt.