Based on the available data that over half of its population over 15 years old drink more than the recommended amount of alcohol, Canada, earlier this week, released its first ever clinical guideline for treating high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder (AUD).
On Monday, at the 141st Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it was announced that the IOC’s Olympic Programme Commission (OPC) and Executive Board (EB) had accepted a proposal from the organisers of the 2028 Summer Olympic Games (LA28) to add five sports, namely, baseball/softball, cricket (T/20), flag football, lacrosse (sixes), and squash to the quadrennial event.
No keen observer of the contemporary condition of industrial relations in Guyana would seriously challenge the view that the trade union movement remains enmeshed in a protracted condition of limbo that has palpably compromised its ability to effectively discharge its responsibility to provide meaningful representation for its constituency, the country’s workers.
In what should increasingly trouble citizens as to the manner in which public funds are going down the drain, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority(NDIA) of the Ministry of Agriculture on October 9th acknowledged major issues with several pump stations including the cancellation of an almost $1b contract at Black Bush Polder.
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has little time for diplomacy, and he was in characteristic form in his press conference last week.
One might understand arguments proffered by governments of the past that they have not had the means to pay a living wage to public sector workers.
“The Guyana Peace Council abhors the declaration of war by Israel against the Palestinian people which has already claimed the lives of over two thousand people, on both sides, the majority of whom are civilians,” begins an eccentric letter published in our newspaper yesterday.
The world observed International Day of the Girl Child yesterday. As is normal with these observances, global data relevant to the year just past punctuated the websites of the many agencies dedicated to girls, children and gender issues.
The Caribbean Dictionary online defines ‘bazodee’ as, among other things, being dumbfounded, dazed or stunned.
Informed observers are unlikely to dwell for any length of time on last Friday’s ‘engagement’ between a ministerial team that included Prime Minister Mark Phillips and Senior Minister in the Ministry of Finance Dr.
The revelation last week that peak demand for electricity was beginning to exceed GPL’s generation capacity appears to have come as something of a surprise to the general populace and apparently the government of the day.
Some diasporas in the United States attempt to influence how Washington engages with their countries of origin.
Given the breadth of the illicit contact between the Ministry of Natural Resources and ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, EEPGL to ultimately deprive this country of oil profits, the government and those involved must be held fully accountable.
President Irfaan Ali is not a man to be inconvenienced by legal niceties.
The details are redolent of a script from a really terrible B movie.
Last week Sunday, the Guyana Amazon Warriors finally overcame the label of ‘always the bridesmaid never the bride’ when they emerged as the winners of the eleventh edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 Final, after stumbling at the final hurdle on five occasions in the first seven years of the tournament.
From its outset, the ‘high octane’ (somewhat glitzy) tempo that characterized the media reporting on the October 9-13 Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) was rather out of sync with the sense of doldrums and crises that have since emerged from the much more sober and serious assessments of the condition of agriculture, and by extension, the state of food security in the Caribbean.
On September 21st, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo reported that President Irfaan Ali had ordered that an investigation be swiftly conducted to determine who authorised personnel at the Ministry of Natural Resources to bypass advice from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and enter into direct negotiations with ExxonMobil to reduce US$214 million in questionable cost oil claims flagged by IHS Markit to US$3 million.
The week before last Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn and Deputy Police Commissioner ‘Operations’ Ravindradat Budhram flew to China to attend the Global Public Security Forum.
The signs have been clear since the first days of this administration: the privatisation of public services is a policy.
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