Editorial

School autonomy and student numbers

Three days ago when commissioning a new primary school at Tuschen, President Irfaan Ali announced that schools would be given greater autonomy to manage their own affairs.

Rice

Last Saturday, while witnessing the harvesting of a bio-fortified rice variety at Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder, Berbice in the presence of farmers, officials from Caricom and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha declared that India’s ban on rice exports would open the market for Guyana.

Catch-22

When a person applies for a position, he/she submits a resume which includes suitable qualifications and relevant experience.

Our Commonwealth champions

Insofar as we have, over the decades, given back anything meaningful to that handful of local athletes who have ‘done us proud’ on the international stage, what we have done, for the most part, has been limited to affording them some measure of public exposure and from time to time handing out modest honoraria that do little justice to the recognition that they would have brought us on the international stage.

Anomie and the oil state

On Saturday, the police force announced the arrest of six persons over the killing of a security guard at the Lusignan Golf Club, among them a stepson of the deceased. 

Communication and democracy

Two critical points which emerged from this newspaper’s interview with outgoing US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch on Tuesday, related to communication with the opposition, and the importance of strengthening institutions.

Public buses would benefit all

In August 2013 then Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn had sparked hope that the administration was finally going to embrace the concept of government-run public transportation.

Consultation mode

Times have changed in the Indigenous areas.  When the Amerindian Act was drafted in 2006 (strictly speaking it is an amendment to the 1951 Act), it had little significant direct input from indigenous sources, although indirectly views were noted and sometimes incorporated when the Bill was drawn up, especially as these related to land.

The Spanish kiss

For more than a week now, the world has been focused on Spain, not just because its National Women’s Football Team won the 2023 World Cup, but owing to the subsequent maelstrom, events at the centre of which is President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales.

CAL flight disruptions

Last Saturday night, at the 30th World Travel Awards gala ceremony held at the Sandals Grand Saint Lucian, Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) was voted the region’s Leading Airline Brand, while Bahamasair took the prize for the Leading Caribbean Airline.

Going with the flow

Amid the continuing carnage on the roads, the barefaced `shakedowns’ and pockets of shocking lawlessness that obtain in the administration of road traffic by members of the Guyana Police Force are the worst kept ‘secrets’ of the country’s wider law enforcement regime.

Restoration of Troy Resources mine site

On August 11th, Stabroek News reported that the Australia-headquartered mining company, Troy Resources Guyana Inc was closing its gold mining operations in Guyana as it does not find the market feasible anymore.

BRICS

Ensconced in Company Path, Georgetown is the monument to the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement – Nasser of Egypt, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nehru of India and Tito of Yugoslavia.

Police appointments

In circumstances where members of the public do not feel safe in their homes or on the streets, it might have been thought that the Police Service Commission and the President within the ambit of their respective spheres of authority, would give careful consideration to senior appointments in the GPF.

Ask Siri

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) believes that Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) will ultimately be beneficial to the global labour market rather than detrimental as it has the capacity to augment and complement jobs rather than replace them.

Luton Town’s approach

The English Premier League (EPL), the world’s top football competition, kicked off its 2023/2024 season two Fridays ago, with the defending champions Manchester City defeating Burnley 3-0.

Saving our cricket

Given all of the various issues that have been preoccupying the Caribbean, climate change and food security being just two of them,   cricket, even as ‘our boys’ continue to ‘rack up’ one humiliating defeat after another, has descended close to the bottom of our scale of hurtful woes.

No to an oil refinery

In recent days, talk of the establishment of an oil refinery here has heated up as if the multiplying risks from the offshore oil platforms and the climate peril aren’t enough to deal with.

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