Editorial

Older movie fans and discotheque frequenters of a bygone era will no doubt remember the upbeat song “The Heat is on,” with its catchy saxophone refrain, from the 1984 Eddie Murphy comedy “Beverly Hills Cop.

There are those who might even argue that the right to unionization is of little more than decorative value since it is unlikely that any more than 10% of our work force is unionized anyway.

Last Friday’s meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) saw the secretariat headed by the Chief Election Officer proposing a timeframe of March next year as the earliest date for general elections which should have already been completed by March 21st of this year.

There can be few people whose return to this country generates as much public interest as that of Roger Khan. 

The vicissitudes of British democracy have suddenly become more entertaining than the Ashes.

There must be a word in the English language which can express something beyond exasperation. 

GuySuCo must be congratulated for its move to imbue its struggling estates with an additional source of revenue by starting what it has called a “cultural heritage tourism product”.

Last Saturday afternoon, on the second day of the Second Test versus India at Sabina Park, Jamaica, a television camera presented the perfect synopsis of the current state of Test cricket in the West Indies.

So the Government Analyst-Food and Drugs Department (GA-FDD) has issued yet another fake drugs alert, described in its media statement as the “circulation and release of substandard/falsified (SF) medication” on the local market through retail pharmacies.

Nothing underlines more starkly the paralysis caused by the government’s defiance of the December 21, 2018 motion of no-confidence (NCM) than the emasculation of Parliament.

The findings of a study undertaken by the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) in Region Seven would hardly come as a surprise to anyone.

Three years ago, a narrow majority of British voters supported a campaign to take their country out of the European Union.

There can be few democratic countries in the world where so much suspicion, scepticism and uncertainty have swirled around an elections body for as many decades as is the case with Gecom.

The magnitude of the current fires in the Amazon rainforest, a count of 74,155 as at Tuesday last, has raised global anxieties and this is as it should be.

Fans of international cricket are probably still discussing the Test match which finished on Sunday.

The southern stretch of the Robb Street pavement between Camp Street and Avenue of the Republic is, next to much of Regent Street, probably the busiest expanse of road for foot traffic in the capital.

On July 29th, Justice of Appeal (rtd) Claudette Singh was appointed as the new Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Despite publicly expressed concerns about the use of facial recognition technology in Guyana, and the publication of data on its deployment in other countries, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan remains quite unmoved.

The 7,000 square miles of rainforest which have vanished in Brazil’s 75,000 forest fires so far this year represent a doubling of the area destroyed last year.

As SN editorialised on Tuesday, the allegation by the Russians that Britain is completing a military base on one of the islands in the Essequibo River with a view to training Venezuelan refugees for reconnaissance and sabotage in the neighbouring state is total fantasy.