One doesn’t have to look too hard to discover that there are significant (and growing) numbers of young Guyanese women – some of them still in their teens – who, these days, are drawn to one entrepreneurial pursuit or another.
Wildfires induced by extreme heat forced some 20,000 tourists this week to flee the Greek island of Rhodes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Caribbean, Latin American and European leaders met in Brussels earlier this week with a view to reviving economic and political relations.
It is a contretemps that has been repeated much too often: a trade union at odds with the government.
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.”
As COP 28 approaches, huge swathes of the affluent ‘North,’ mostly, are contending with one or another manifestation of climate change, extremes of temperature that inflict varying levels of disruption on normal life.
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.
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.
It has been a couple of weeks since President Ali announced that Major General Joe Singh retired would head the COI into the May 21 Mahdia fire.
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.
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.