Opinion

Trick or Treat?

On Sunday night, as the die-hard Guyana Amazon Warriors fans were, once again, wallowing in the bitter agony of losing in the final of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), for the sixth time in the 12-season history of the event, former Guyanese and West Indies captain Sir Clive Lloyd announced the launch of a new T20 competition, the Global Super League (GSL).

Pit latrines at hinterland schools

It is conceivable that it would not have occurred to many Guyanese residing on ‘the coastal plain’ that both children and teachers in parts of the hinterland must endure the safety and health hazards as well as the indignity that attends the need to use pit latrines outside of schools’ and, seemingly, that there appears not to exist, up to this time, any immediate-term plan to remove this unacceptable obstacle to the delivery of education in a convivial environment in those areas.

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