Cornell’s Law School Legal Information Institute defines “domestic terrorism” as…“activities that— (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State: (B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.”
In her capacity as both the Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and as Prime Minister of Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados, has drawn particular attention to her capabilities as a regional leader of substance.
Presented on Friday under the theme `A Path to Recovery, Economic Dynamism and Resilience’, the 2021 budget offers some of the customary concessions to the cost of living burden.
It was on January 7th this year that President Nicolás Maduro issued a decree purporting to establish a new maritime territory designated ‘Territory for the development of the Atlantic Façade’ incorporating our territorial waters, EEZ, continental shelf and land west of the Essequibo River into Venezuela.
With close to 2.4 million people dead from Covid-19 and more than 100 million infected, the end of the pandemic remains a distant prospect in many countries, even those with sufficient supplies of vaccines.
Last November UWI, no less, issued a release saying it was negotiating an agreement with the government here to train 20,000 Guyanese over the next five years through its Open Campus.
The number of children being trafficked for forced labour and sexual exploitation is increasing, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) latest Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, which was released a little over a week ago on February 2.
Truth be told, last Saturday night, only a handful of the endling West Indies Test cricket fans bothered to change the channel on their television sets at 9.30 pm to view the fifth day of the First Test match versus Bangladesh.
This is not the first time that Guyana has made a seemingly inexplicable slipup in its foreign policy decision making and yet, in this instance, it defies belief that the government’s recent short-lived decision to establish a Taiwanese ‘outpost’ here, a move which Beijing would have seen as amounting to the creation of a de facto embassy in Georgetown, could have ended a matter of hours later in an unseemly retreat following a swift feral blast from the Chinese.
We welcome the assurance by Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for finance, Dr Ashni Singh that an online portal for the publishing of all awards of government contracts is currently being set up by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB).
Old-hand foreign policy watchers must have rubbed their eyes in disbelief when they awoke on Thursday to read that Taiwan was to set up a trade office in Guyana.
Confronted with one of his own legal opinions – one that inconveniently contradicted his current stance – the nineteenth century jurist Baron Bramwell cleverly replied: “The matter does not appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then.”
President Irfaan Ali hosted the traditional annual media brunch at State House on Sunday, telling the assembled journalists that he was “open to constructive criticism”, to ideas, and the “sharing of responsibilities for the development and advancement of our country.”
It probably looks good on paper, but the Government of Guyana’s $25,000 COVID-19 relief and household support grant, much like its handling of the transmission of the infection and other aspects of the pandemic to date, is far from even handed and shamefully steeped in politics.
On Saturday last, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) issued a statement on its ongoing imbroglio with the media with regard to restricted access to the Guyana National Stadium, Providence for reporting on the conditions at the facility.
In more ways than one the advent of the COVID-19 global pandemic has caused the world to ‘stand still,’ awakening the human community to its collective frailties, not least, what now appears to be a dismantling of that ‘one world to share’ chimera which, over time, and influenced by the Charter of the UN, we may have deluded ourselves into thinking of as a reality.
On Friday, ExxonMobil issued a terse statement on its offshore oil extraction operations notifying that it had had to resume gas flaring above pilot levels because of a defective seal.
It will soon be six months since the PPP/C government has been in office, a period etched deeply by the unrelenting march of the COVID-19 pandemic and a country trying to come to terms with its oil future.
When major online platforms restricted trades in certain stocks earlier this week, apparently to ease the pain of hedge funds with costly “short” positions, thousands of investors concluded that the fix was in.
No one could accuse Minister Zulfikar Mustapha of being altogether clear in his mode of operating.
