Editorial

Last week Monday, 10 February, Cricket West Indies (CWI) proudly released an extended statement under the caption,’ Cricket West Indies passes historic governance reform at Special Meeting of Shareholders.’

Guyana faces serious questions about how effectively asserted is its territorial sovereignty in the public arena.

Not unsurprisingly, the Minister of Parliamen-tary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira has mounted a defence of her government’s record against corruption in light of this year’s Trans-parency International (TI) report which again puts the country in an unflattering light.

While the government was inevitably aggravated by Transparency International’s recent Corruption Perceptions Index, it has to be observed that that report has been published in an entirely different international context from when the one last year was produced.

On January 27 and 29, 2025 Stabroek News published articles highlighting a presentation made by the Minister of Culture, Charles Ramson Jnr, in the National Assembly during the 2025 budget debate.

As Guyana stands at the threshold of transformation, our education system must evolve to meet the demands of a high-income economy.

Around 10:45 am on Wednesday last at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, a truck driven by a 28-year-old man crashed into a utility pole, hit a car and then smashed into a house, causing significant destruction.

Whenever the subject of parking in George-town is broached, one is loathe to enter into the discussion, since one suspects the initiator is trying to revive the ghost(s) of the 2016 parking meter fiasco and the subsequent US$100 million lawsuit (2021) against the Government of Guyana which it has been forced to fight whilst having to pay exorbitant legal fees billed in US dollars.

With, for reasons that remain unexplained, up to this time, a comprehensive report is still to be tendered to the people of the Caribbean regarding the pace of progress towards the enhancement of food security in the region  These days there is a great deal more chatter about the much discussed 25×2025 formula for reducing food imports from outside the region though, even now, the people of the region have been furnished with no information that provides anything resembling iron-clad information that 25×2025 is a ‘sure thing.

On February 4th, following a series of questions about real estate he might own in New York, the Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) Sherwyn Greaves resigned abruptly.

Beijing must be quite nonplussed. After spending years seeking a major revision of the international order which has been in place since the Second World War, along comes an American President, no less, who in the passage of only two weeks struck at its very foundations. 

Guyana, known for its extremes, presents stark contrasts in various aspects—nature, politics, and society alike.

Recently, readers were informed through a Stabroek News editorial (1/23/2025) about the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s plan to host, for the second time, a Jamaican artform, dancehall, competition as part of Guyana’s 2025 Mashramani celebration.

Late last month, this newspaper carried a report on a 40-year-old domestic violence survivor who was down on her luck.

Over the last week, the world’s media has been fixated on the placement of tariffs by the US Government on goods originating from its North American neighbours, Canada and Mexico – subsequently halted for a month – and its arch-rival on the world trade stage, China.

In an act demonstrative of civic responsibility, Mr Romain Khan recently pointed to a  lacuna in the handling of cooking gas cylinders.

It is unclear how much more has to be written on the contract award to Tepui Inc for the Belle Vue pump station to shame the government, the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) and the Public Procurement Commis-sion (PPC) into decisive action.

Mudslinging season is upon us. In case we had any doubts about it there was Minister of Finance Ashni Singh, the government’s leading economic authority, sounding last week as if he had usurped General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo’s role in the PPP.

If the recent data released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding non-detained individuals with final orders of deportation is accurate, Guyana is set to receive 1,236 deportees from the United States.

A Scottish court sitting in Edinburgh yesterday dealt a serious blow to the oil and gas plans in the North Sea of Shell and Norway’s Equinor.