Editorial

St Lucia goes to the polls

With the end of the country’s five-year parliamentary term formally due towards the end of November 2016, St Lucia’s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony took the occasion of a recent Budget address and debate, still to be concluded, to announce the dissolution of the country’s Parliament and the holding of general elections on June 6, thus leaving the conclusion of Budget proceedings to be undertaken either by his St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) or the current Opposition United Workers Party (UWP).

What the CoI had to say

In the fullness of time one expects that the recently completed Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service of Guyana will become the subject of vigorous public discourse and that such discourse will take account of, among other things, which of its recommendations are accepted by the President and the manner and speed with which those accepted recommendations are implemented.

NFMU audit

While the release of the forensic audits into a clutch of state agencies and related bodies is revealing quite a lot about poor governance and dodgy financial practices under the PPP/C administration it is also presenting questions about the modus operandi of the APNU+AFC government.

Refugees

Last week all the talk in the region was about refugees, although not the Syrians, it must be noted, but Venezuelans ‒ possibly.

Fantastic corruption

Who can doubt the truth of Prime Minister David Cameron’s apparently unguarded remarks to the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury on the eve of London’s anti-corruption summit?

Over the walls

News this week that a raid—the second one publicized for the year so far—at the Georgetown Prison had unearthed a significant amount of contraband brings an unsettling feeling that despite protestations to the contrary, things are perhaps too fluid at Lot 12 Camp Street.

Renovating the public service

Given the wide-ranging nature of the brief handed the Commission of Inquiry into the Guyana Public Service by President David Granger last year it is a marvel that its work has been completed and its findings handed over in what, contextually, is a relatively short space of time. 

Tony Cozier

In an era of continually eroding standards and the absence of pride and professionalism in so many spheres of life, the late Tony Cozier represented the very best of traditions.

Facebook’s bad news

Walk into a modern newsroom and you will likely notice something that was unimaginable just a few years ago: screens with real-time updates on “trending” stories from the outlet’s website.

Venezuelan crisis

No one in this country should feel comfortable about what is going on in Venezuela at the present time. 

Britain’s European challenge

We revert to a look at the political campaign proceeding in Britain towards a referendum promised by Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative government on whether the country should remain in the European Union (EU), due on June 23 of this year.

The Public Health Ministry and the Lailac milk issue

The ensuing Lailac milk brouhaha involving the Ministry of Public Health, the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) and the private sector distributor, International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA), lays bare the longstanding and abject weakness of the authorities in the matter of the effective enforcement of regulations that have to do with monitoring the importation of foreign-manufactured foods into the country.

The NIS audit

Wednesday’s release on the Ministry of Finance’s website of the forensic audit into the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) provided evidence of what has long been suspected about the PPP/C’s style of government particularly under former President Jagdeo.

Ogle renaming

More than any other president who has served in this country, President David Granger appears to have a penchant for renaming things.

Patriotism

Last Saturday, more than 300 Guyanese gathered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to celebrate Guyana’s Golden Jubilee.

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