Editorial

On Wednesday once again we reported on complaints from Mayor Ubraj Narine about arrears in rates and taxes owed to the M&CC.

It could be safely said that human beings unwittingly leave their DNA in almost every place they go.

This Friday most of the eyes of the cricketing world will be focused on the commencement of the World Test Championship (WTC) Final between India and New Zealand at the Ageas Bowl, in Southampton, England.

The June 8 disclosure by RUSAL’s Chief Executive Officer, Evgenii Nikitin  regarding the company’s plan to invest heavily in the upgrading of its bauxite-mining operations in the Carib-bean, including its operations in Guyana, is likely to attract a muted welcome here.

A series of incidents in short order has underlined longstanding concerns about the quality and reach of mental health services in the country. 

Most, if not all citizens of this country when asked would say they wanted a more equal society which was not discriminatory.

Naomi Osaka pulled out of the French Open earlier this month after being penalised for avoiding press conferences.

Those European nations which participated in the slave trade have in recent years become more sensitised to their past.

It is entirely possible that there is a point to the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) once again deeming City Hall hazardous, but it is certainly very murky.

Last Wednesday, 2nd June, was the day Oliver ‘Ollie’ Robinson, the Sussex seam bowler had dreamed of for a long time.

Last Saturday’s back page Stabroek Sports story, ‘NSC big three visit facilities being upgraded,’  the aforementioned ‘big three’ being Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson, Director of Sport, Steve Ninvalle and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC) Kashif Mohammed, secured conspicuously prominent occupancy of space in circumstances where a persuasive argument might have been made for supplanting it with the Golden Jaguars’ inglorious defeat by a 3-0 margin at the hands of  St.

The efforts of the government, the Civil Defence Commission, related agencies and civil society groups in helping to relieve the deep and dangerous flooding across the country must be applauded and supported.

In a letter to this newspaper on June 2nd Mr Kit Nascimento lamented the fact that Mr Mondale Smith, a professional journalist, who had not been vaccinated against Covid-19 had died of the virus.

The awful history of Canada’s “residential schools” resurfaced this week when the remains of 215 Indigenous children were discovered at a former school.

One would have thought that after the 2005 flood crisis our politicians might have learned a few basic lessons, but it seems that they are endowed with a unique capacity to forget the things they should remember.

To say that tennis star Naomi Osaka’s with-drawal from the French Open on Monday shock-ed many in the sports world is nothing short of an understatement.

“Sooner or later the truth comes to light” – Dutch proverb   It’s that time of the year again in Canada when every other conversation seems to revolve around the hockey playoffs and the pursuit of the Stanley Cup.

Reading, over the weekend, a short but insightful account of the impact of the ongoing countrywide heavy rainfall on the South Rupununi village of Karaudarnau, afforded the Stabroek News by the young village Toshao allowed for a sobering insight into the gulf between the lifestyles – if indeed such a term is appropriate here – of ourselves, coastal dwellers, and those other Guyanese, Amerindians, mostly, domiciled in the same territorial space as us but, nonetheless, dwelling at a distance sufficiently far removed in terms of way of life, as to cause it to seem as though we live in different worlds.

On December 31st last year, Stabroek News reported that the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) was investigating allegations made to the international Minerals Grievance Platform (MGP) that  local large-scale gold trader, El Dorado Trading was connected to illegally sourced Venezuelan gold, a claim the company denied vehemently when contacted by this newspaper.

It seems Guyana is to have a new city.  Not a town, or an urban settlement, but a city.