Editorial

On Friday evening, in a residential community in the capital, two young men, armed with knives and hopelessly intoxicated in the moment, set upon each other, inflicting wounds with a crazed sense of purpose.

As reported in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, the Department of Public Information (DPI) has drastically cut state advertising in Stabroek News without offering an explanation.

Last week, President Nicolás Maduro was in Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin. 

Not long ago, Justin Trudeau’s fondness for donning inappropriate costumes was safely confined to a handful of cringe-making photos from a state visit to India; Boris Johnson’s disregard for truth was discounted as a harmless quirk, or even seen as part of his blustery charm; Donald Trump’s mob-boss dialogue with world leaders was hard to watch, or read about, but not enough to induce a crisis.

President David Granger, who made the route to an election following the vote of no confidence last December an obstacle course of Herculean proportions, tossed yet another potential hurdle onto the electoral track on Wednesday.

Earlier this month, the Mayor and City Council was presented with a proposal for fixing the city’s overwhelming problems of solid waste disposal, which includes recycling and incineration.

One of the casualties of development and changes in society is the irretrievable loss of traditions and customs. 

Now that it has become clear that Guyana is well on the way towards beginning to build an oil and gas industry, Trinidad and Tobago has done nothing to conceal its intention to take advantage of what it clearly sees as significant investment opportunities arising out of the various services that it is positioned to provide given its own considerable experience in and knowledge of the industry.

Friday’s deportation from the US of convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan now places the onus on law enforcement authorities to conclude the requisite investigations into his activities here prior to his departure for Suriname in the middle of June 2006 where he was arrested and then taken into custody by the US authorities while transiting Trinidad and Tobago.

The Chair of GECOM has spoken. Justice Claudette Singh has written President David Granger to say that the commission would be ready “to deliver credible elections by the end of February 2020.”

The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities last weekend prompted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to accuse Iran of perpetrating an “act of war” and they have pushed the Middle East to the brink of a regional conflict.

A lot has been said about the rule of law recently. 

Twice already for the year, in April and then again in August, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) has had to issue warnings to citizens not to be taken in by fraudulent contacts on Facebook, claiming to be in a position to offer them land or houses.

Airline travellers to Guyana –whose numbers continue to increase at an exponential rate with the highly anticipated forthcoming oil and gas industry – over the past four decades were exposed to and suffered from extremely poor service provided by international carriers – including the now defunct former national airline, Guyana Airways.

The public response to the recent opening of the new Massy Superstore at Turkeyen has been pleasing without being excessive.

It is undeniable that since the night of December 21st when the government surprisingly lost the motion of no confidence brought against it that the country has been in a state of suspended animation – verging on nine months of it with no end in sight.

One of the most disturbing things to emerge from the recent study by the Amerindian People’s Association (APA) into issues surrounding indigenous land tenure is the situation in Kaikan, Region Seven.

A new antitrust probe of Google led by 50 US attorneys general is the opening shot in a long overdue campaign to rein in America’s tech giants.

Last week Commissioner of Police Leslie James told the media that Deputy Commissioner of Police Lyndon Alves had been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.

One day before World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10, 2019) was globally acknowledged, Balkaran Persaud, a taxi driver of Mon Repos, reportedly forced his 35-year-old wife Kavita Persaud and their 3-year-old daughter to consume a poisonous substance, before taking a portion for himself.