A huge step backward for women
On Sunday last, this newspaper’s “Women’s Chronicles” column saw women addressing their disappointment at the hoops they were being made to jump through to visit non-Covid-19 patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
On Sunday last, this newspaper’s “Women’s Chronicles” column saw women addressing their disappointment at the hoops they were being made to jump through to visit non-Covid-19 patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
In a recent interview with Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace, American President Donald Trump hinted that he might not accept a loss in the upcoming November elections as he will claim that it was rigged.
Global discourse on the subject of food security has been accentuated by the advent of COVID-19 and what the world’s foremost international organizations say are the possible implications of the effects of the virus for both hunger and malnutrition across the world in the future.
As APNU+AFC and its surrogates continue to defy the will of the people by first sponsoring naked electoral fraud and when that failed occupying all tiers of the judiciary with spurious and vacuous legal challenges to the declaration of the result of the March 2nd elections, it is evident that Guyana faces its greatest threat to democratic governance since the massively rigged elections of 1985, courtesy of the then PNC which today again features in treachery of the same order.
The de facto government has hardly demonstrated its competence in managing the Covid-19 pandemic.
The ongoing crackdown in Portland, Oregon – enforced by unidentified federal agents in camouflage and tactical gear – has produced scenes more reminiscent of democratic resistance in a banana republic rather than a protest in an American city.
One can envisage the justices of the CCJ rolling their eyes around in exasperation when the latest frivolous electoral appeal from Guyana lands on their bench.
Since 2002, the Paris Plages event in France has been offering Parisians and visitors free summertime beachside recreation along the Seine River.
Jack Charlton, the former England defender, a key member of the 1966 World Cup winning team, passed away on 10th July following a long illness.
There is something insidious in the ‘nature’ of the Coronavirus. Its ‘mission’ extends beyond taking lives.
Thursday, July 16th 2020 marked the 9th anniversary of the formation of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).
Perhaps the most perplexing thing about the aftermath of the March 2nd election is that the caretaker President has managed to create an alternative story about the process which defies incontrovertible evidence and the testimony of innumerable witnesses, yet is still believed by a significant number of people.
Earlier this month Harper’s magazine published a 532-word “Letter on Justice and Open Debate” signed by more than 150 well-known writers and journalists.
The caretaker President has rewritten the rule-book for the rigging of elections.
On Sunday last, this newspaper reported that ExxonMobil and two of its subcontractors had been fined three times this year – in March, April, and May – for “minor spills of hydraulic fluid in the offshore Stabroek Block”.
On Sunday, the West Indies cricket team completed a fine four-wicket victory over their English hosts in the First Test at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton.
With hindsight, it is more than a little surprising that, glaring and reckless transgressions notwithstanding, large sections of the Guyana population still comply with the unprecedented strictures and encumbrances required of us on account of the most alarming malady that we have ever had to confront, the Coronavirus.
An overarching and vaguely worded national security law imposed on Hong Kong this week marks the end of an era.
What else can be said about Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield that has not already been said?
In a Page One comment on June 25th, Stabroek News stated the following in relation to the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield: “As we have said before, Mr Lowenfield must be summarily dismissed from his position.
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