Editorial

The world’s current technological frontier is space. As a matter of fact, this has been so since the Second World War, and was given an additional impetus by Soviet-US competition.

“We need to harness the significance of people’s obsession with food right now, and understand how waste is sinful, criminal, as well as financially foolish.”

In his major work, ‘Les rites de passage’ (The Rites of Passage, 1909), French ethnographer and folklorist Arnold van Gennep delved into the ceremonies marking the important stages of various cultures, laying the groundwork for other anthropologists to expand on.

The sudden, meteoric rise in the global public awareness of the South American nations of Guyana and Suriname – hitherto two of the least mentioned countries in the hemisphere – on the international stage, has everything to do with their near simultaneous world class oil discoveries within the five-year time span and the implications of these occurrences not just for their own future developmental prospects but also for their strategic interest to the rest of the world.

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon’s assault on the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine batch being used here is reprehensible and raises serious questions about his judgement.

The public made a discovery on Monday, and so, it might be added, did the opposition. 

The G7 summit last weekend closed with optimistic headlines about the group’s efforts to help end the pandemic.

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.