Editorial

Towards the end of December last year, China issued its ‘Physical Activity Guidelines for Chinese People (2021)’ after its State Council found that more than 50 percent of Chinese adults are overweight and that obesity rates among urban and rural residents of all ages were rising.

Formula One (F1) aficionados and casual followers of the sport are well aware that the 2021 F1 Driver’s Championship title was decided on the last lap of the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi on 12th December in rather controversial circumstances.

Since his assumption of the office of the presidency of the Caribbean Development Bank back in May last year, Dr.

In his New Year’s address on Friday,  President Ali again attempted to defend the provisions of the contentious Natural Resource Fund Bill which was passed in Parliament on Wednesday night and which he swiftly assented to on Thursday afternoon.

Serious question: Does anyone read any more? And no, tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram memes, even this editorial, don’t count.

In February of this year President Irfaan Ali addressed Parliament telling the assembled MPs that his government’s vision was one of “inclusion”, and that he wanted “regular high-level consultations” with representative bodies to address key issues.

As 2021 draws to a close with the world still buffeted by the Covid-19 pandemic, one can perhaps look back wryly at the universal human naivety that had denounced 2020 as the worst year in recent history and assumed that this one would have been better.

Almost two months to the day after the World Bank had staged its October 25-28 forum on the subject of Data Analytics for Anticorruption in Public Administration, in which it had made some pointed observations about the nexus between corruption and poverty in poor countries, the Stabroek News published in its December 23 issue an article headlined “Education Ministry signed contracts for over $15 million before Internal Tender Board’s approval.”

Tomorrow’s sitting of the National Assembly has listed for second reading the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill 2021.

In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a hearing on the role of Communist infiltration into the Hollywood film industry.

No one was unduly surprised to pick up the newspaper on Monday morning and discover that Mr Aubrey Norton had won the PNCR leadership contest by a landslide.

In April this year, the government of Sri Lanka unveiled its rather ambitious plan to become the first nation in the world to return to strictly organic farming and in one fell swoop banned the importation and use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides, weedicides and fungicides.

Last Saturday, sarcastic cheering and applauding rippled across the Caribbean Sea, as a statement emanating from Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that the contracts of Chairman of the Selection Panel Roger Harper and fellow Selector Miles Bascombe, which expire on the 31st December, would not be renewed.

Each time that a fleet of vehicles is acquired for the Guyana Police Force the commissioning ceremony is unfailingly attended by a robust admonition of the Force over what is seen as the poor management of its vehicles and an ‘appeal’ to do better.

On December 16, businessman Gangadeo Sridat, 48, and two former ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Terry Milling, 35, and Delon Wilson, 34, appeared before the court in relation to a huge fuel theft.

George Orwell would have recognised the character of the world which is creeping up on us.

Imagine a village where for generations, the inhabitants have dipped buckets in a river for their water.

While we wrestle with the peculiarities of our political system or the essentials to be included in a local content law, sometimes the truly grand-scale projects slip by largely unremarked. 

The well-known saying, ‘there are plenty more fish in the sea’ and variations of it can be traced back to the 16th century.

Two Sundays ago, 5th December, the 75th Fukuoka marathon was staged.