Editorial

A week ago, maintaining a now 93-year-old tradition, Time magazine named its 2020 Person of the Year.

Monday was the Diamond Anniversary of the famous Tied Test between the West Indies and Australia which took place at the Brisbane Cricket Ground (BCG), in Queensland, Australia.

Over a period of less than two months, public pronouncements by heads of key regional development support organizations including Head of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr.

It had been hoped that former President Granger would have taken up the invitation by President Ali to meet with him and the three former PPP/C Presidents, Messrs Hinds, Jagdeo and Ramotar.

Guyana is supposed to be a parliamentary democracy.  Since the introduction of a presidential system in 1980, however, power has become concentrated in the hands of the head of state, and every president from Burnham onwards has made no moves to mitigate that.

Antitrust lawsuits like those facing Google and Facebook are essential if the Internet is to remain open and innovative.

Venezuela went to the polls on Sunday to vote for members of the National Assembly. 

Today is Human Rights Day. It was on this day, 72 years ago, that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The time of reckoning for West Indies Cricket has arrived and over the course of the next few days, developments both on and off the field will indicate in which direction our cricket is headed.

It had been evident from the start of the nighttime curfews and the various other strictures aimed at garnering a measure of public restraint as a means of restricting the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, that considerable numbers of people in communities all across the country, were indifferent to going down a road that would spread a restrictive canvass across their customary ways of life, not least, the manner in which they entertain themselves.

Speaking on Friday on the sidelines of the launch of the Canada Guyana Chamber of Commerce, President Irfaan Ali made the announcement that he had invited all former presidents to a meeting with him on December 15 to discuss national development.

On Thursday we reported Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Alleyne as saying that it was time for the anti-sodomy laws in Guyana to be made null and void, although he maintained that the act of homosexuality was still morally wrong.

As the Trump era nears its end, a potential flashpoint in the Middle East has underscored the brinkmanship of its diplomacy.

A number of prominent individuals and organisations in a letter to this newspaper on Wednesday are among those who have asked about the treatment of 26 Haitian nationals currently held at the Hugo Chávez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration.

World AIDS Day was observed on Tuesday last under the theme “Global Solidarity, Shared Responsibility”.

Last Wednesday, the sporting world paused for a few minutes as the news that Maradona had passed, circulated as quickly as an out-of-control bush fire.

Quite what would have triggered last week’s outburst by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) in response to correspondence sent to the Palm Court Restaurant and Bar by the COVID-19 Task Force in the matter of what the Task Force says is the popular downtown entertainment facility’s repeated breaching of the restrictions associated with the pandemic, is difficult to tell. 

Since taking office on August 2nd there has been frenetic activity by the PPP/C government in all sectors except for its legislative agenda where it is inexplicably still to present a range of bills that should have been in deep contemplation for months.

With the entry of each new government into office the electorate hears the same recitations about development.

Yesterday representatives from the African Union held desperate eleventh-hour talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to dissuade him from the ‘final phase’ of his military campaign to crush the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).