Opinion

The BBC interview

While President Ali has earned plaudits for  his push back to questions recently from the BBC’s Hard Talk host, Stephen Sackur, there are several issues which require a refining of Guyana’s position so that it doesn’t endanger its forest legacy or bequeath a carbon bomb to the planet.

Believing that the electricity sector would take care of itself we focused all our energies on a fanciful and uncertain silver bullet

Dear Editor, When I read the President’s statement that “This year alone in addition to the shortfall which we have in generating capacity we are projecting another energy demand of 35 megawatts so that will take total demand by the end of this year to 220 MW that is on the system right now,” I was immediately reminded of Lord Keynes’ famous aphorism, “In the long run we are all dead.”

The GECOM chair

With general elections just a year and change away, one of the prime matters to be settled will be the chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Drag race reeks of pure and utter madness

Dear Editor, It seems reason has taken flight and the mental condition has deteriorated to such an extent that the senseless act, in the matter of the drag race accident which took place in an East Coast community between two vehicles, one, allegedly driven by a fifteen year old, reeks of pure and utter madness.  

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