Editorial

The Ozempic craze

Emile Zola’s 1873 novel “The Belly of Paris” is centred around the capital’s once large food market of Les Halles which sadly moved to the suburbs in 1969.

Green spaces v hotel

The ruling party has never been noted for its aesthetic sensibility, but what most distinguishes it is the fact that whenever confronted with an open urban space it is overcome by the compulsion to fill it with a concrete monstrosity.

It’s the highway

Let’s get one thing straight. However and whenever the teachers’ strike ends, the lesson learned will include the fact that around here nothing really changes, and the maxim that talk is cheap truly applies.

Challenging the status quo

On the morning of the 19th January, while the West Indies were still licking their wounds from the First Test defeat by Australia at the Adelaide Oval, Cricket West Indies (CWI) CEO, Johnny Grave was on a Zoom call with former England captains Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain, joint hosts of the weekly Sky Sports cricket podcast.

The President and the teachers’ industrial action

To seek to pretend that the current industrial action by teachers across the country is some kind of political contrivance, part of the wider pattern of political ‘cat-sparring’ that intermittently afflicts the nation, is to indulge in monumental self-delusion. 

Vale, Omai, Exxon, Tobago

On January 25th this year, a Brazilian federal judge ruled that miners Vale and BHP and their joint venture Samarco must pay 47.6 billion reais (US$9.67 billion) in damages for a 2015 tailings dam burst.

Box

“I suspect the GTU …  have found themselves in this box and they would be pushing to have hopefully the Ministry of Labour and the chief labour officer … extricate them from there,” Labour Minister Joseph Hamilton was quoted by the state newspaper yesterday as saying.

Political game

Autocrats in power for any extended period with oppression as part of their CV will rarely leave office willingly. 

Tin soldiers

In the fairy tale ‘’The Steadfast Tin Soldier’’ by Hans Christian Andersen, the central figures are a tin soldier – the last of a batch of 25 and made one-legged because the tin ran out – and a paper ballerina formed executing a pirouette, with one leg drawn up.

Off the hook again

Last Friday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that US prosecutors had overreached their boundaries when they applied United States laws to groups of people, many of whom were foreign nationals, who allegedly defrauded FIFA, a foreign organisation based in Switzerland.

Reckless amendment to NRF Act

Evidence that the PPP/C government operates clandestinely and without a clear policy on important matters can be seen in how it muddled its way from its Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act in December 2021 to the egregious amendment to the principal act contained in the Fiscal Enactments (Amendment) Bill 2024 which was passed on Friday night.

Teachers’ strike

The Guyana Teachers Union has called on teachers to strike from tomorrow unless there is a favourable response from the Ministry of Education and other relevant authorities to its proposals for salary increases and non-salary benefits.

Congestion

By mid-year, all things considered, including the disposal of threatened legal action, New York will implement a congestion charge on nearly all vehicles entering Manhattan below 60th Street.

Nation Builders Mural

“You are no longer the same after experiencing art”- Milton  Glaser, designer of the iconic “I Love New York” logo On 23rd December last, Eric Anthony ‘Tony’ Phillips, another son of our soil, passed away in Australia, where he had migrated to in 1978.

Shamar Joseph

There aren’t enough superlatives to frame the courageous single-mindedness of Baracara’s and Guyana’s Shamar Joseph in leading the West Indies to this marvellous  victory over Australia in the wee hours of yesterday.

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