Opinion

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.

The New York Times interview

In his September 25th interview with the New York Times’ International Climate Correspondent, Somini Sengupta, President Ali trotted out his standard argument as to why there should be no qualms about Guyana’s unrestrained extraction of oil and the envisioning of a future for the industry here past 2050.

Whither Norton and his youth vision and policy?

Dear Editor, During his address at the Opening Ceremony of the 22nd Biennial Delegates Congress of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) in late June, the Party’s Leader and Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton, mentioned that “the PNCR will place youth development high on its agenda and revisit our national youth policy with the aim of adapting it to the present situation.

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