Editorial

Since taking office in August 2020 the PPP/C government has spent $20.9B in various subventions to the Guyana Sugar Corporation.

Since taking office in August 2020 the PPP/C government has spent $20.9B in various subventions to the Guyana Sugar Corporation.

The Chinese Landing saga continues without resolution. Yesterday we reported the Ministry of Natural Resources in a press release as saying that it was working to ensure an amicable solution for all stakeholders in the mining dispute there.

Less than a month after 24-year-old Corentyne resident Cindy Ramchandar was stabbed to death on August 8, 28-year-old Tacina Dazzell of La Bonne Intention suffered the same fate on August 26.

Last Thursday, the 25th August, marked the 50th anniversary of the opening of Carifesta ’72, in Georgetown, the inaugural festival of Caribbean artists, writers, painters, sculptors, dancers and dramatists.

 On August 24th, a contract valued at $566.9m was signed for the reconstruction of the North Ruimveldt Secondary School which was des-troyed by fire on June 19 last year.

On August 22nd, amid mounting pressure over the cover-up allegations made by police sergeant Dion Bascom, President Ali told sections of the media that the Barbados-based Regional Security System (RSS) had been asked to “evaluate” the investigation into the murder of gold miner Ricardo Fagundes.

Last week Dr Betrand Ramcharan in a feature article in this newspaper discussed a recent work by Dr Olufemi Taiwo on decolonisation.

This week an article in Stabroek News listed the price of tomatoes at currently $600 a lb and suggested that demand from onshore and offshore oil workers was driving up costs for this and perhaps other vegetables, many of which have increased even more than tomatoes which were once selling for $140/lb in March 2017.

When announcing that he had asked the Regional Security Service to investigate the allegations of Sergeant Dion Bascom about a police cover-up in the Fagundes murder case, President Irfaan Ali commented that he had always said the ruling party was governing with transparency.

The earth is being stifled by plastics, its oceans and seas are choking on them and while in some places solutions are being sought, in others there is a lack of awareness – or is it deliberate ignorance – that is both shocking and dangerous.

This Saturday, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is scheduled to hold an Extraordinary Congress at the GFF National Training Centre at Providence to ratify proposed amendments to its constitution.

Should this editorial come across as a pat on the back for the Stabroek News’ Sports Journalist Emmerson Campbell arising out of his coverage of the recently concluded Commonwealth Games then we can only hope that our readers believe that the reportage gave ample reason for a short, sharp blast on our trumpet.

On August 8th, Cindy Ramchandar, 24, was murdered at East Canje.

We seem to lurch from one corruption scandal to the next without any of them being resolved.

On Sunday, Aramco, the national energy company of Saudi Arabia, reported a profit of US$48B for the second quarter of 2022.

This is a cyclical society.  That is to say when it has been decided how a problem should be solved, that decision is rarely permanent.

On Monday, the rape trial of Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy began with the prosecution laying out horrific details regarding the ten charges against the 28-year-old French citizen.

The United States of America, one of the leading economic and political players on the world stage will, in four years, celebrate 250 years as an independent nation.

Ongoing media coverage of the devastatingly destructive outbreaks of fires in wooded parts of those regions resulting from what we are told are record temperature rises this summer, have added a further dimension to what has been, for some time, one of the most reported-on issues on the agenda of the international media.