Editorial

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan, never a one for great reflection on our liberal values, was unsurprisingly in full rapturous mode at the launch of the Safe City surveillance system in Georgetown last week. 

Today Guyana observes the 181st anniversary since African slaves who had been brought to this part of the world were freed from the abominable, dehumanising condition of captivity, which to date defies definition.

The 1975 sci-fi film Rollerball, directed and produced by the well known Canadian director Norman Jewison, projected what the sporting world was going to be in this century.

No one has any really reliable idea as to just how serious the problem of the use of drugs by schoolchildren and in schools really is.

On Thursday President David Granger invited members of civil society and the diplomatic community to listen to a presentation at separate engagements in the Baridi Benab.

On July 26, President Granger and Opposition Leader Jagdeo were finally able to discharge their constitutional obligations in relation to a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Six hours of testimony from special prosecutor Robert Mueller highlighted the dilemma facing the Democrats in the run-up to the 2020 US election.

There can be no head of state since 1980 who has displayed more of a capacity for temporising than President David Granger.

Just recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cut two massive swathes in pollution problems that have been causing some amount of grief.

“The only thing that I fear is fear itself,” a Formula One driver once observed.

Even with the various other developmental challenges that are on its plate our   policy-makers, particularly those responsible for overseeing the child health regime in the  schools system, should take a serious look at the UNICEF 2019 “State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World” report which, in its section on the global problem of overweight and obesity, makes a point of saying that the overarching concern over this particular health challenge extends to schoolchildren, worldwide. 

On Saturday, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) commenced house-to-house registration across the country for the purpose of creating a new National Register of Registrants from which a new preliminary voters list is to be extracted.

Nearly everyone is familiar with Lord Acton’s oft-quoted adage about power.

This week President Trump’s remarks repeatedly crossed the line between hectoring and hateful.

A week last Friday, addressing the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Director of Economics at the Caribbean Development Bank Dr Justin Ram recommended that Guyana abolish its Grade Six Assessment.

At the end of last month, this newspaper’s Sunday column “Women’s Chronicles” published a conversation with a 30-year-old mother of four who has been living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) for 13 years.

Last Sunday while France was busy celebrating La Fete Nationale (French National Day), often referred to as Bastille Day, the attention of the world’s sports fans was centred on their neighbour across the Channel, the United Kingdom.

Shifts in Guyana’s development focus underscored by the realization of oil and gas as a factor therein have occasioned the enhanced importance of attracting foreign investors as well as the need to expand external markets for the country’s products and services.

A new UN report estimates that the world population – which currently hovers around  7.7 billion – will grow to 8.5 billion by 2030 and peak at around 11 billion early in the next century.

In an address to the nation on Friday, President David Granger was not at his most presidential.