On Monday last, Vice Media published an interesting story in its Lifestyle section about a Danish restaurant manager who sourced all of her food from supermarket dumpsters in 2024 and as a result only had to spend US$99 at the grocery on other items for the entire year.
In the wee hours of Monday, 27th January, the West Indies Test team sent shockwaves across the Caribbean when they won the Second Test in Pakistan by 120 runs to level the two-match series.
It would be naïve, arguably downright guileless to pretend that Donald Trump’s return to the presidency of the United States will have no significant bearing on Washington’s relationship(s) with CARICOM, a truism that has already been made manifest by the early soundings that are deriving from the new administration.
The Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc (VEHSI) on Saturday announced the opening of Phase 1 of a state-of-the-art port facility at Plantation Best, West Bank Demerara.
“The Ministry of Education will not condone any form of violence in our schools.
In Guyana, currently, the speed of construction seems uncompromising. Massive hotel structures ascend at an astonishing pace, apartment buildings emerge from previously undeveloped land, retail spaces transform in a matter of days and even tombs get relocated as in the case of the 15 tombs to be moved from the Golden Grove Burial ground.
In 2016, Guyana entered into a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil for offshore oil exploration and production.
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson Jr appeared quite chuffed recently when he announced that the Dancehall Monarch Competition, which he said was introduced last year to highlight Guyana’s emerging talent in that genre, was back on the Mashramani calendar this year.
Newspaper cartoonists often employ the figure of ‘Father Time’ – the personification of time – in their end of year or new year illustrations to capture the passing of another year.
Increasingly, reports in sections of the media, have been alluding to occurrences that imply (or at least so it seems) unwholesome relationships between the narcotics trade and law enforcement.
There is no doubting that budget 2025 – the sixth presented by this PPP/C administration – contains many measures that the public will welcome.
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand held her end-of-year press conference recently dealing with the year 2024.
The deaths of two men at Mahaicony on Wednesday have brought into sharp focus two serious matters that successive governments have failed to address.
On October 3rd, 2024, the Stabroek News reported that Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo had by way of a question posed at his regular Thursday press conference, addressed the issue of the proliferation of Chinese supermarkets across Guyana.
On January 10, Education Minister Priya Manickchand referenced the phrase “full value for money” when addressing costs related to the University of Guyana (UG) now that tuition is free.
On the 6 January, The Age, an Australian daily newspaper published in Melbourne, Victoria, reported that Jay Shah, the former secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), now the Chairman of the International Cricket Conference (ICC) is planning to meet later this month, with Cricket Australia (CA) Chairman Mike Baird, and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Chairman, Richard Thompson to explore the introduction of a two-tier format for the World Test Championship.
The term ‘state capture’ alludes to a particular ‘brand’ of political corruption that allows ‘other interests’ to supersede the conventional governance mechanisms associated with shaping and implementing initiatives/undertakings that significantly impact the welfare of the country.
If anything at all, the recent public exchanges over the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between the APNU+AFC Government and ExxonMobil have underlined why it must be renegotiated and why that should legitimately be an election year issue.
Guyana is due to hold national and regional elections this year including in Regions One, Two, Three, Seven and Eight.
A concerning undercurrent in crucial areas of Guyanese society is weaponised incompetence.
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