Editorial

The Liberty and Justice Party has now brought itself into alignment with three other small parties by eschewing an alliance with either the governing Coalition or the PPP/C for the purposes of the 2020 election.

Every revelation of the White House’s interference with US policy in Ukraine suggests that Trump has misjudged the political fallout of his actions.

So, the first oil to be extracted from Guyana’s bountiful wells in the Stabroek Block will be divvied up between ExxonMobil and its two partners Hess and CNOOC.

A fearsome-looking Doberman graces the front cover of the March 1996 edition of Guyana Review under the caption, ‘The media’s watchdog role.’

Global organisations, including the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF, have declared, based on data they have gathered and compiled, that maternal mortality has declined by 38% between 2000 and 2017, though they agree that the incidence is still unacceptably high.

Last week’s disclosure regarding the launch of a Women’s Chamber of Commerce in Guyana is to be welcomed.

On October 29, nearly a week ago, it was reported to the media by several commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following their weekly meeting that a decision had been taken by the Chair, Justice (Rtd) Claudette Singh that the names of over 25,000 could be excluded from the Official List of Electors (OLE) for the March 2020 General and Regional Elections if those persons made no effort to uplift National Identification Cards which have not been collected going all the way back to 2008.

This year, Queen’s College celebrates its 175th anniversary. It is one of the few functioning institutions to have survived here for this length of time, and the weight of that tradition is still apparent notwithstanding the vicissitudes to which the school has been subject in the more recent past.

Recent street protests in Algeria, Chile, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Russia indicate a groundswell of political discontent that stretches across the globe.

At a Press Association dinner last Saturday Foreign Secretary Carl Greenidge expressed his concern about the fact that the narrative of the controversy pertaining to Guyana’s border with Venezuela was being relayed to the world in a way which was “distorted and untrue.”

Last Friday, when she hosted a symposium for Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) farmers, Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Valerie Adams-Yearwood was quoted as telling them that the forecast showed “a bright future… for agriculture in the Rupununi, if economic development is pursued in a way that conserves the region’s cultural and natural heritage…”, this is according to the Department of Public Information.

One week from today West Indians will begin paying keen attention to the activities of a group of their fellow countrymen during their campaign against Afghanistan in India.

Until thorough investigations are done and there occurs some sort of arrival at the truth, or at least what approximates the truth, there are, frequently, differing opinions on the causes of traffic accidents.

The life of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) unfortunately came to an end yesterday at a crucial juncture both in terms of the work that it had been doing and the country’s intersection with the imminent oil and gas economy which will see a vast expansion of procurement.

The fate of the AFC as a viable political party will be determined in the not-too-distant future. 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed to have little idea of what lay ahead when he appeared before the US Congress’ Financial Services Committee earlier this week.

“That comes as a surprise,” we quoted AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan as saying when told that Mr Robert Badal, along with Mr Nigel Hinds were launching a new political party called Change Guyana.

News this week that transgressors had recently been caught performing illegal logging and mining in the Iwokrama rainforest should raise the ire in all of us.

The espionage world, one previously dominated by governments in their quests to acquire military and government information on their adversaries, and popularized by various films and television series, now appears to have developed as a new sub-culture in the world of sport.

Guyana imports $10.9 billion in snacks.