Editorial

Illegal mining has been a major problem in the interior for many decades as a consequence of the high price of gold on the international market coupled with a negligent approach on the part of the authorities to the enforcement of the regulations.

Today the United States celebrates Thanksgiving; a tradition that reportedly dates back to 1621 when the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast, although it was not until nearly 250 years later in 1863, that the then president Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it a national holiday. Despite

Two Sundays ago, Lewis Hamilton, the British racing driver took the chequered flag at the Turkish Formula One (F1) Grand Prix.

The instances of the removal of Ms. Samantha Fedee and Mrs.

Yet again, Guyana has been implicated in a major international transshipment of cocaine.

Last week UWI issued a release stating that it was in the process of negotiating an agreement with the Government of Guyana to train up to 20,000 Guyanese over the next five years through the agency of its Open Campus.

President Trump’s slow-moving and mercifully incompetent coup underscores the scale of his defeat.

The government is reopening certain sugar estates, although they have not, as yet, spelt out what their larger plan for the industry is. 

A report this week that 483 pounds of imported, frozen duck which had been illegally imported from the United States since last year, and whose expiry date had passed, had been seized and dumped raises several important questions.

Last Friday morning, the Miami Marlins, one of the thirty teams in Major League Baseball (MLB), made an announcement which rocketed across the airwaves of the sports media world with the magnitude of an earthquake recorded at 8.0 on the Richter scale.

On August 17 it became public knowledge that People’s Progressive Party stalwart Robert Persaud had been appointed to the position of Foreign Secretary in the Irfaan Ali-led PPP/C administration.

Following public objections, Oilfield Waste Management Services (OWMS) has decided to relocate its proposed waste treatment plant from Peters Hall, East Bank of Demerara (EBD) to Little Diamond also on the EBD.

There should really be no surprise that the two old warhorse parties continue to maintain their grip on the nation’s political consciousness.

As the results of the US election harden into historical fact, the system that is about to nudge Donald Trump into his chaotic post-presidency remains as puzzling as ever.

We reported yesterday that several people had been taken into custody in order to assist the police in their investigations into the murders of Isaiah and Joel Henry, as well as Haresh Singh. 

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.

A furore arose in Ottawa, Canada last week when it was reported that the American grocery chain Whole Foods Market Inc, now owned by Amazon, had banned its employees from wearing poppies to work.

 It would be pointless to pretend, first, that there may not be an element of risk in the partial re-opening of state schools as of yesterday and secondly that this does not transform into a certain level of anxiety amongst parents to the extent that some of them would have kept their children at home, at least for the time being.

An editorial in the April 5, 2018 edition of Stabroek News had expressed the hope that if all went according to plan the Integrity Commission would hold public officials to standards consistent with the assurances they had given in their oaths to serve the Guyanese public.

It is always hard work getting governments in this country to show an interest in heritage issues, and it will be particularly hard now when there is a pandemic raging and those who sit in power have their minds fully occupied by fossil fuel matters.