It would almost certainly have come as no surprise to Guyanese that the 2021 Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) lists Guyana as one of the Caribbean’s most prominent offenders insofar as corruption at the level of the state is concerned, the fact of the matter being that long before TI had made its report for 2021 public, the country had been struggling with prior blatant revelations of practices associated with official corruption.
Under the apt theme ‘Charting a sustainable energy future’, the International Energy Conference and Expo Guyana’ is set to get underway tomorrow with an impressive list of attendees including the Presidents of Ghana and Suriname and the Prime Minister of Barbados.
Last week the Annual Officers’ Conference of the GDF took place to discuss topics falling under the less than pithy rubric of ‘Enhancing national security and development through capacity building, empowering troops and strengthening community relations’.
To see our Vice President fumbling for words the other evening in his interview with VICE Media was not pretty.
Boris Johnson’s grip on the prime ministership of Britain is slipping.
Formerly, when a woman was appointed to the top position in a firm, she was lauded as having broken through the so-called glass ceiling.
Justin Langer, arguably the world’s most demanding cricket coach, is now available after submitting his resignation with immediate effect to Cricket Australia (CA) last Saturday.
To varying degrees, the misdirection of state assets by functionaries is a region-wide phenomenon.
Following an Alliance For Change press release condemning the replacement of the Co-ordinator of the Guyana-Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GY-EITI), Dr Rudy Jadoopat, the government on Saturday issued a defence of the decision while confirming that his successor will be Dr Prem Misir.
There have been a number of criticisms about the recently launched ‘Atlantic Readers’ by the Ministry of Education.
Last Thursday we were told by the Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh that inflation was 5.7% and food inflation 11.6% in 2021.
One looked in vain for any comprehensive contribution from Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson during the Budget debate on cultural matters.
Confirming much of what was already known, a report on Monday last brought into sharp focus the hypocrisy of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who not only allowed, but attended parties at 10 Downing Street during the period when COVID-19 lockdown rules were in effect in the UK.
Yesterday, 1st February, was the scheduled deadline for the sounding of the death knell for Derby County Football Club (DCFC), one of the 12 original members of the English Football League (EFL) and one of only 10 clubs to have participated in every season since its founding in 1888.
Not a great deal of official attention appears to have been paid, here in Guyana, to some of the comments made by the World Bank arising out of its December ‘Data Analytics for Anti – Corruption in Public Administration’ forum, including, particularly, those that have to do with the awarding of state contracts.
With the advent of the oil economy, the annual budgets of this country will take on a distinctly different appearance.
After the five-month delay in APNU+AFC recognising the legitimate results of the 2020 election, no one could have anticipated yet another time-lag in the appointment of a leader of the opposition.
Once upon a time the price of sugar on the world market was keenly watched by Guyana’s biggest industry.
Three days ago the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index Report of 2021 was released.
Just over a year ago, the term common prosperity began to gain more traction when it was firmly set as a goal to which China aspires.
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