That President Granger was moved at a New Amsterdam forum on Friday to reassert that he was a `constitutional President’ demonstrates the great difficulty he faces in convincing at least half the people of the country and key sections of the international community that he is anything more than just a caretaker President and functioning only to clear the path for early general elections.
Prior to the APNU+AFC coalition winning office, the assumption in many quarters was that should Mr David Granger become president, then there would be an improvement in the crime situation on account of the security experience he would bring to bear on the problem.
Elijah Cummings, the 12-term Democratic congressman who passed away two days ago at the age of 68, belonged to a political culture that seems increasingly remote from the incivility which prevails in the Age of Trump.
A horrendous accident took place two days ago when two vehicles crashed on the Friendship public road on the East Bank.
Two years ago, the Meeco Group of Germany was awarded a contract worth $227,706,890 (US$1,088,046.90) for the design, supply and installation of a 440-kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (PV) farm at Mabaruma in Region One (Barima/Waini).
Early last Saturday morning, in the Prater, an amusement park in Vienna, Austria, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge became the first man to complete the marathon, a distance of 26.2 miles, in a time of less than two hours.
One of the issues that arose out of the various public pronouncements made during the course of the 2019 Education Month activities was the importance of building a cadre of teachers strong enough to adequately deliver the curriculum to children across the country, taking account of the increasingly weighty demands that will be placed on the country’s education system, going forward.
In recent months there has been sufficient cause to be concerned that there is a rogue outfit operating within the elections secretariat/machinery to create maximum administrative confusion, further delay the scheduled general elections and to tinker with well-established timelines and schedules.
A number of news organisations, including the BBC, have produced pieces on Russia’s growing global reach, and President Vladimir Putin’s apparent mission to re-establish his country’s influence in world affairs and engineer a return to spheres of influence.
In February 1991, shortly after the US launched Operation Desert Storm to displace Iraqi troops from Kuwait, President George H.W.
During the celebration held to observe the 36th anniversary of the Guyana Prison Service, Director of Prisons (ag) Gladwin Samuels gave an address where he said that punishment without rehabilitation condemned an individual to an existence without hope.
The World Health Organization (WHO) hit a significant goal with FIFA last Friday (no pun intended), which, once it works, could mean a major advance in its anti-tobacco battle.
When the 17th edition of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athletics Championships concluded on Sunday in Doha, Qatar, a gathering storm of dark clouds continued to linger over the world of athletics.
There are two realities about crime and law enforcement which have to be faced and these, regrettably, are likely to be around for some while.
It would be instructive for all citizens to examine where the nation and its prospects rest today after the epochal events of the last nine months.
It is not often that former heads of state or government admit to having made mistakes during their period of office, and in this country it is very rare indeed.
On Thursday President Trump seemed to tire of “adulting” his way through the present crisis and simply told the press that Ukraine should look into the Bidens’ business activities and perhaps Beijing ought to do the same.
On Wednesday Minister of Foreign Affairs Karen Cummings told the media that calls by the international community relative to the matter of holding elections in Guyana were unnecessary.
It is well known that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month; it is internationally observed.
On the 24th September, whilst celebrating Trinidad and Tobago’s 43rd anniversary as a Republic with members of the T&T diaspora in New York City, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, appears, to have quite innocently re-ignited the debate on the renaming of public institutions after persons who have served in high office.
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