Editorial

Three days after popping champagne corks and toasting their beloved West Indies cricket team’s 2 – 0 Test series sweep of Bangladesh, following on the heels of the 1 – 0 Test series triumph over England in March, to remain unbeaten after five Test matches in 2022, fans were broadsided by the most befuddling of recommendations.

Across the spectrum of our various domestic publics – and there are quite a few of those – the advent of the country’s ‘oil wealth’ as a presumed transformational factor in the country’s  development, going forward,  means different things to different constituencies.

The removal of Dr. Marlan Cole from the position of Director of the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) back in March this year may well not have come as a complete surprise to him.

The events of last Tuesday are an illustration to President Irfaan Ali, if he was unaware of it before, just how precarious the stability of the society really is.

The purpose of unions is to represent labour in its struggle against the intrinsic abuses of the capitalist class.

Tuesday’s events along the East Coast are illustrative of a number of issues. 

While he was Borough President of Brooklyn in 2019, New York Mayor Eric Adams helped to successfully launch a mindfulness project in East Brooklyn schools with the aim of providing students with avenues to calmness, kindness and higher cognitivity.

Last week, the Guyana Football Federation was throwing its weight around again, as seems to be its wont as of late.

These are among the more trying times that the United Nations has had to face in its recent history.

Speaking on May 14th this year at a World Press Freedom Day reception, European Union Ambassador to Guyana, Fernando Ponz Cantó offered some sobering thoughts on the profession and its importance to the country.

Last week a phalanx of government ministers appeared in close formation to face the residents of South Georgetown.

What if your average American viewer slumped down on their Lazy Boy on Sunday evening and purely by chance flicked on VICE’s “Guyana For Sale”? 

Before he jetted off for the Commonwealth Conference in Rwanda, President Irfaan Ali had visited Phillipai in the Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven. 

On Saturday last, President Irfaan Ali paid what was said to be “an impromptu visit” to the area loosely called ‘South Ruimveldt’, where he walked about the community, and inspected drains, roads and a community centre ground.

Last Thursday, the affiliate associations/federations of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) convened for a Special General Meeting at Olympic House, Liliendaal to ratify or reject proposed changes to the GOA constitution.

In its elaborate undercover operation here, it is clear that US agency, VICE News’ intention was to catch Vice President  Bharrat Jagdeo on the take.

In Friday’s 97th instalment in his seminal series in Stabroek News on the oil and gas industry, chartered accountant and commentator Christopher Ram has developed a series of stunning statistics and insights into the earnings of the three partners in the lucrative Stabroek Block for the year 2021 compared to Guyana.

Yesterday we reported on Attorney General Anil Nandlall’s complaint against the opposition whose members, with one exception, on Friday absented themselves from a meeting of the Standing Committee for Constitutional Reform.

Chaos theory argues that the world’s weather is in such a state of delicate flux that a single flap of a butterfly’s wings in the Amazon rainforest can cause a tornado in Wichita, Kansas. 

It is a strange story.  There was Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton visiting the relatives of Quindon Bacchus in Golden Grove on Monday, when he was followed by the police all the way back to his home.