Editorial

Over the past six decades the sport of boxing, more notably on the professional side, has been a source of great pride for our fledgling nation, spawning a few World and Commonwealth Champions.

A country’s foreign policy is the lens through which it sees and treats with the rest of the world.

As the halfway point in this administration’s life approaches, the jubilation, nay euphoria,  over the spending that is now possible with the country’s oil revenues is easily discerned.

According to the DPI Attorney General Anil Nandlall is of the view that the mechanisms currently in place to appoint a Chancellor and Chief Justice could be reviewed during the course of the upcoming countrywide consultation for constitutional reform.

A most useful series of articles by this news-paper is a vox populi feature “How the cost of living is hitting people”.

Last August Guyana’s High Commissioner to India Charrandass Persaud had abused Asso-ciate Professor Sonya Ghosh in the most vulgar fashion outside his home in New Delhi.

Last month, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) published guidelines on mental health at work and a joint policy brief explaining practical strategies for governments, employers and workers regarding the guidelines, they could very well have been speaking directly to conditions here in Guyana.

Early last Friday morning, 21st October, the sounding of a ship running aground on the continental shelf reverberated throughout the Caribbean.

By the time the 2022 T20 Cricket World Cup Tournament got underway ‘down under’ just over a week ago, finding a West Indian who honestly thought that the twice winners  would make it past that earliest stage that separates the ‘triers’ from the ‘stayers’ could easily be equated with tracking down a needle in a haystack.

On October 20th, the Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall announced that local government elections (LGEs) would be held on March 13, 2023.

Those outside the PNCR must have indulged themselves with a sly smile on reading last week that Ms Annette Ferguson was calling on the party to investigate its Georgetown District election.

On the morning of October 7th,  an ambulance attached to the Skeldon Hospital was busted at the back of Number 78 Rampoor Village, Corentyne with a quantity of chicken.

Two days ago the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled on one of two election petitions challenging the results of the 2020 poll that had been brought by APNU+AFC.

As the West Indies cricketers went through their paces at a net session in Napier, New Zealand on the eve of their final first round match of the 2015 ICC World Cup, versus the United Arab Emirates, they were greeted with the distinct sound of a Guyanese accent.

President Irfaan Ali’s announcement on Sunday about the launch or imminent launch of a programme dubbed 1,000 men, the objective of which, he confidently stated, is reversing the  challenges faced by young men in Guyana is one that will bear keen watching.

It is not just the issues of language and culture that set Haiti apart from the rest of the Carib-bean Community (CARICOM).

On September 20, the public was made aware of a spectacular crime.

Guyana has not been a state in the modern sense for very long, and neither does it have a colonial past reaching back into the mists of history.

Watching the CPL cricket on television the past few weeks, viewers might have been struck by the advertisements for various gated communities.

Public attention is habitually focused on what happens at central government level, even although decisions taken at the local level may have a greater impact on the daily lives of villagers in any given location.