Editorial

Yesterday, September 7, should have been the first day back at school for the nation’s school-age children to commence the start of the Christmas Term.

In keeping with one of its major manifesto promises, the PPP/C government is moving ahead with plans to reopen the East Demerara, Rose Hall and Skeldon estates. 

A little more than a week ago we reported on a plan for a US$1.4 billion real estate project along the Mahaica River.

With the US elections fast approaching, the volume of mis- and disinformation circulating online has now reached a point at which it actively threatens the democratic process.

No one expected that the National Assembly would suddenly become a haven of sober, sensible debate, and no one was disappointed.

Reuters reported on Monday that some 25 people in Norway had been taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after they attended an illegal rave in a bunker in the capital, Oslo.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to severely impact the way we conduct our daily lives, with nightly 12-hour curfews and other restrictions, Reuters reported on Monday that e-commerce giant, Amazon.com

Our political culture has always afforded a newly installed political administration the prerogative of making promises, giving undertakings and levelling a slew of criticisms, frequently decidedly carping ones, at carefully selected performances of their predecessors whilst those were in office.

In sending the Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr Vincent Adams on immediate leave of 126 days without explanation, the one-month-old PPP/C administration has effectively decapitated the Agency while it is in the midst of making major decisions on various aspects of the oil and gas industry and in other sectors.

On Friday a letter written by former President Donald Ramotar was published in this newspaper.

Four years ago the NFL star Colin Kaepernick made headlines by sitting, then kneeling, during pre-game national anthems.

A recent press release from the Attorney General’s Chambers slid past the public without comment, partly because it referred to a matter which had its origins five years ago and partly because given the drama of the last few months and the accession of a new government to office, it got submerged under a welter of more compelling news stories.

When the UK-based Independent reported last week that the Carter Center was launching its first-ever United States election initiative, the announcement might have come as a surprise to many.

In the 1990s and the early 2000s, Reality television programmes, such as Survivor soared on the Nielsen television ratings.

A week ago Prime Minister Mark Phillips and Minister in the Ministry of Public Works Deodat Indar met with officials of the Guyana Power & Light Company (GPL) to discuss the four- decade-odd crisis of a broken down national electricity infrastructure and how, conceivably, it might be put together again.

Entering the fourth week of its term and with an emergency budget for 2020 pending, the PPP/C administration has crucial decisions to make on the oil and gas sector and little time to do so.

There has been no term more tossed about in the political sphere in recent times than ‘shared governance’, by which is more properly meant ‘shared executive governance’.

In a year of contentious elections, the current standoff in Belarus underscores the importance of supporting democracy at moments of crisis.

It is not often that the Guyanese public is given a window into any internal dissension afflicting one of our two major parties, particularly when that party is the PNCR. 

In June 1972, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were in their 20s when they began working on a series of stories for the Washington Post that began with a break-in at the Watergate Complex in Washington DC and later rocked American politics like never before.