Editorial

IACHR resolution

The week before last the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, normally referred to by its initials, IACHR, issued a resolution on a petition from the Indigenous residents of Chinese Landing in Region One.

Spills

With two platforms in the Atlantic producing oil in excess of nameplate capacity, a third set to come on stream shortly and dozens of exploratory wells to be sunk in this frenetic drive to extract petroleum, the government and its regulatory authorities will come under increasing pressure to be vigilant and to be able to respond to a crisis.

Politics and the GTU

While the public has been labouring under the impression that the government’s bargaining agent with the Guyana Teachers’ Union on a multi-year pay package for teachers was the Ministry of Education, it has now been revealed that this is not so.

A horse and cart story

Last week, Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony expounded on the need for data collection in the health sector, stressing its importance to planning and policy-making.

Backdoor tax

On 14th July, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) issued a media release announcing a new fee structure for match officials and referees for the 2023/24 football season.

Oil and our political culture

It really matters little how much we shout about our ‘oil economy,’ make pronouncements about envisaged transformations and ‘soak up’ the credentials bestowed upon us by the assorted experts about just where we rank in the pecking order of oil-producing countries.

Notes on the Dharamlall case

In the aftermath of the collapse of the rape allegation against the now resigned Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall, it is worth reviewing key developments.

Undermining institutions

The PPP sees development in purely material terms. Progress is all about the physical things: the new highways, the bridges, the multi-story hotels, the futuristic town and so on. 

`The government did not have to offer a cent’

If anyone wants further proof that the administration is doing its damnedest to wriggle out of any blame for the Mahdia dormitory fire then we need only look at the actions and words of the Attorney General in the past few days. 

Spanish classes

In June, at the commissioning of the US$5.15 million Good Hope Secondary School, President Irfaan Ali hinted that based upon the trajectory the country is on and location, “We now have to move towards making Spanish compulsory in our school system.”

The gunman in the yellow raincoat

On July 6th, according to  CCTV video footage seen by Stabroek News, businessman Safraz Khan drove his car onto a bridge on Austin Street to enter his yard when another car came from a southerly direction; stopped and opened fire on his.

EU electoral recommendations

During the month of May a team from the European Union led by parliamentarian Mr Javier Nart came here to assess the extent to which electoral reform recommendations made by the EU Observer Mission in 2020 had been addressed.

Time management

Buried in a presidential address lasting all of 78 minutes on Wednesday was the nugget that the Public Service Commission would be set up before the end of the week.

The air that we breathe

Early last month, a hazy pall hung over parts of the United States, the result of smoke and particles from wildfires burning in Canada, which having started a few months prior, had driven air quality to unhealthy levels.

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