Editorial

On Monday Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire threw out the petition which had been brought by APNU+AFC challenging the results of the March 2nd 2020 elections.

It is possibly audacious to suggest that a multi-billion-dollar company, one which managed to secure a $3.89 billion after-tax profit last year despite the global negative impact of COVID-19, has disappointed.

Two Sundays ago, media headlines worldwide screamed a leaked story from the football world.

It is now a year and more since millions of children across the world, including here in Guyana, have had no access to formal education, that is, the transfer of knowledge that derives from face to face communication and which includes the simultaneous sharing of information in a real time, interactive, learning-friendly environment.

While there is still much to be learnt about what has transpired, the ongoing turmoil at the Guyana Oil Company will be a test of the PPP/C government’s professed intolerance of corrupt behaviour and commitment to good governance.

There are some instances of carelessness on the part of public officials which result in actual physical harm.

The ambitious carbon reduction targets announced at Washington’s virtual climate summit are equal parts aspiration and political strategy.

Periodically letters are printed in this newspaper calling for an inquiry into the killing of former Agriculture Minister Satyadeow Sawh, his sister Phulmattie, his brother Rajpat and his security guard Curtis Robertson, and this month two of these were published in our letter column. 

Today is Earth Day. The brainchild of Ameri-can Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson, an environmentalist of Wisconsin, Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970, but only in the United States.

Last Friday, the current fastest man in the world – both on the track and for shopping – Christian Coleman, was informed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that his appeal to overturn the two-year ban imposed for missing three no-notice out-of-competition drug tests in a 12-month period, had failed.

Pity indeed that 2021, the year designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV), had to coincide with a period when we are confronted with one of the sternest global challenges of our time, that is, the challenge of pushing back the scourge of the coronavirus pandemic.

Just over two months after the administering of the first COVID-19 vaccine on February 11th to a health worker, the government announced that inoculations would be available to  all persons over 18.

On Friday it was reported that Raúl Castro was stepping down from his leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba.

By the end of this week, Ontario could no longer deny that the province’s third wave of Covid infections had become a crisis.

On June 13, 1980, outside the Georgetown Prison, a walkie-talkie in the lap of Dr Walter Rodney exploded, killing him.

What do the Mazoa Mountain in the Rupununi, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine) and Ianna Landing in Barima-Waini (Region One) have in common?

Last Sunday, the Twenty-second Annual General Meeting of Cricket West Indies (CWI) was held, with Mr Ricky Skerritt and Dr Kishore Shallow being duly re-elected unopposed to serve a second two-year term as President and Vice President, respectively.

The disclosure that there exists a disparity between the ‘conditions of service’ afforded the Guyana men’s national soccer team, on the one hand, and those ‘enjoyed’ by their female counterparts (‘the Lady Jags’), on the other, would have been shocking to many Guyanese.

The Ministry of Education has formally embarked on its ambitious Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) project which will be presiding over 20,000 scholarships in five years with 4,500 to be awarded this year.

It is hardly surprising that the Opposition feels isolated.  Leaving aside its disreputable attempt to rig the 2020 election, since it went out of office on August 2nd it has played the few cards left in its hand extraordinarily badly.