Editorial

Producing two budgets within six months is a feat that is deserving of the highest commendation and the Minister of Finance and all of those who participated in this process must be given their deserved credit.

There was a time when you could walk around Georgetown, and street after street would be lined with traditional houses – not necessarily always the grand, elegant, colonial variety, but also the small-scale, equally attractive cottages of the working people.

Months before she endorsed the candidacy of Donald Trump, in a speech that will be long remembered for inventing the delightful word “squirmish”, Sarah Palin was asked to speculate about her political future.

It was back in 2011 that we asked, “What more can one say about Shivnarine Chanderpaul that has not already been said?”

Whether the weather be fine Or whether the weather be not… We’ll weather the weather Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not.

As the American political arena rolls down to the presidential elections due in November of this year, observers from around the world are experiencing a spectacle of contention among what some Americans refer to as “presidential wannabees”.

“The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sportscompetitions for young people.”

As outlined in yesterday’s editorial, the manner in which the APNU+AFC government and GuySuCo communicated the decision to close the Wales Sugar Estate was insensitive to a community that faces the loss of hundreds of jobs and puts families at risk of further penury and disintegration.

The announcement of the closure of Wales estate struck like an earthquake.

Twenty years ago the historian and politician Conor Cruise O’Brien argued that a key aspect of global security, one that was nearly always overlooked, was the United Nations’s unrelenting search for solutions to insoluble crises.

The news that Sarah Palin has endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican nomination to run for the presidency of the United States of America has been met by general derision in most quarters.

Late last year, three Guyanese-American siblings won the first place in an Innovating Justice Challenge for the police rating and review mobile and web app they had created and entered into a worldwide competition.

The implementation of agreements reached between the Western powers, but essentially between the United States and Iran, is a significant element in the reduction of what we referred to in an editorial last week, as current global uncertainties.

Less than a year after receiving news of the country’s first significant oil find it must surely be a sobering thing for Guyana to watch neighbouring oil-rich Venezuela experience a condition that now bears a conspicuous resemblance to an economic freefall as the price of crude oil, which brings in more than 90 per cent of the Bolivarian republic’s earnings, continues to tumble.

Wednesday will mark three weeks since the ghastly Carifesta Avenue accident which claimed three lives and was later revealed to have been as a result of an intelligence-gathering operation under the aegis of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU).

The seemingly endless catalogue of murders has everyone alarmed. It is not just the number which is a source of disquiet, but the extraordinary brutality which accompanies them.

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” wrote William Wordsworth about the early days of the French Revolution, “but to be young was very heaven.”

Today’s issue of the Stabroek Business details the contents of a letter it received from Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Major General (ret’d) Norman McLean that seeks to provide an update on the now twice postponed public/private sector National Economic Forum which was originally scheduled to take place last September.

In a recent BBC World Service Report, technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones describes technology tycoon and maverick entrepreneur Elon Musk as “both bonkers and brilliant, the most visionary technology leader I have encountered in 20 years of interviewing many of the leading figures in the industry.”

There could be no contradiction in stating that all policyholders in this country are aware that quality education has been proven to be the panacea for many of society’s ills.