Editorial

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).

Following the killing of seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen in Gaza on Monday, three former UK Supreme Court justices and more than 600 legal experts have written a 17-page letter to the government.

Many people can likely still remember where they were when they first heard about the airborne illness that was rampantly spreading, which was later confirmed to be a Coronavirus, and named Covid-19.

The fact that the two playing fields differ vastly in size and quality of surface is of no consequence.

The announcement by the Guyana Government on March 30th via the Department of Public Information (DPI) that 500,000 pounds of cassava had been delivered to the Deep South Rupununi underlines the food security threat that hinterland communities face.

How much time should one be given to make power supply in this country stable?

The government is not accustomed to responding to investigative questioning, let alone criticism from outside entities.

Last week Minister of Governance Gail Teixeira and the government she represents discovered that the world according to the PPP does not travel well beyond the borders of this land.

President Irfaan Ali made some interesting comments last week as part of his address to the 38th Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The blatant disregard for the Highway Code and the lack of road courtesy have been the subject of countless Letters to the Editor and several editions of this column over the past few years.

The incident in which two policemen were, earlier this month, reportedly caught up in a scam during which they pretended to be attached to the Force’s Special Organized Crimes Unit (SOCU) and used their cover as a vehicle with which to perpetrate a shocking, bare-faced and seemingly ill thought-out rip-off is part of a familiar pattern of seriously deviant behaviour by some Police Officers.

It was inevitable that the absence of a confirmed Chancellor of the Judiciary and a Chief Justice and the implications of such would arise at international fora.

What Venezuela has done is so preposterous that had it occurred in the old countries of Western Europe, say, it would have provoked an outcry from democratic nations across the continent and beyond.

In a 2020 TED Talk,  Massy’s former executive vice president of business integrity and group general counsel, Angélique Parisot-Potter explained why it was important to speak up in the workplace no matter what.

Last Saturday the Deputy Commander of Region Three along with a number of police ranks led a security sensitisation exercise at 21 Chinese operated supermarkets between Tuschen and Windsor Forest.

In December last year, a young, social-media influencer provoked a firestorm when she declared that she would not consider having a child unless her partner committed to paying her a specific sum annually.

“Realise that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment” – Tony Robbins If the divorce and separation rates across the globe are anything to go on, then the advice from life coach/ motivational speaker Tony Robbins’ seems to be falling on deaf ears.

For all our own crime challenges and the questions that continue to be raised as to whether our law enforcement is up to keeping those challenges in check, it is difficult for us not to look over our shoulders at fellow Caribbean Community member country Trinidad and Tobago where there exists the widespread feeling that the term ‘killing fields’ is altogether appropriate to sum up the contemporary crime situation there.

Just last week in these columns it was lamented how the failure of the prison service and police could have possibly led to the murders of a Saxacalli mother and son, Nellie and David Gomes on March 8.

In case it had escaped anyone’s attention, it seems that the annual remembrance ceremony for Dr Cheddi Jagan last week marked the beginning of the election season.