The recent deployment of power ships to stabilize coastal Guyana’s national electricity grid was a stark step by the Government of Guyana to address the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) rapidly dysfunctional electricity demand and supply.
Continuing the trend of the last few years, 2024 was the hottest year recorded in history and as had been predicted, it exceeded the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) limit above the pre-industrial average set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) is in the headlines again, attracting a bevy of difficult questions.
There is a sense in which the Tuesday, December 31st Stabroek News lead story – ‘GPHC says has seen over 60,000 patients this year’ provides a generous measure of enlightenment on both the nature and the scale of the challenges (crises?)
On January 2nd at her end-of-year press conference, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Sonia Parag spoke about the appointing of a new Local Government Commission (LGC).
The most dramatic event to take place in our extended neck of the woods this week will not be happening here, but in the capital to our west.
As we enter 2025, the so-called “silly season” is in full effect, bringing one of the most exasperating political behaviours: what about-isms.
According to the Government of Guyana (GoG), the $100,000 cash grant initiative is intended as a transformative effort to redistribute wealth derived from the nation’s burgeoning oil revenues.
On Monday, our Caricom neighbour, the Cooperative Republic of Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency (SoE) as gang violence continues to escalate in the society.
If one was asked to name some of the more significant challenges to which Guyana will be compelled to give focused attention in the year immediately ahead, Venezuela’s longstanding and, of late, increasingly high-profile territorial claim to Guyana’s Essequibo region is certain to either head that list, or, find itself close to the top.
On December 26th the Board of Directors at the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) approved US$527m to the Ministry of Finance to support the government’s ambitious gas-to-energy project that aims to strengthen energy security and lower the cost of electricity to consumers.
We are on the cusp of a new year. At a personal level it will bring changes, hopefully for the better for many people, but at a national level it will be hard to indulge any optimism about the coming months.
In the aftermath of the tragic Mahdia dormitory fire, which claimed the lives of twenty children, the cries of grief from the parents and families affected reverberated throughout Guyana.
“Hope springs eternal in every human breast” – from “An Essay on Man” – Alexander Pope (1732) Today, despite all the scientific and technological advancements, we live in a world filled with a persistent onslaught of chaos.
As we count down the days to the end of 2024, four issues loom large in the national agenda.
Reuters earlier this month reported that Brazil has gone high tech in cracking down on illegally mined gold.
On December 3rd last year the Government of Venezuela held a referendum to seek the approval of the Venezuelan people to incorporate Essequibo into its national territory.
In Guyana, the crippling fear of retribution — a major detractor from democracy — thrives.
It was hardly surprising that the fifth year of oil production evoked barely disguised triumphalist declarations by ExxonMobil Guyana.
There was a time when firefighting, law enforcement and the military were considered the only occupations in which people faced a high probability of dying on the job.
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