The citizens of this country should be very grateful to the Touchau, Councillors and residents of the small Amerindian village of Karaudarnau in the Rupununi, because they were the ones who stopped the Parabara road, being built by a Brazilian, from being driven through their lands.
The day before yesterday, in a marathon press conference, Chris Christie, the Governor of New Jersey, engaged in a spectacular act of contrition.
Eusébio – like all the truly great sportsmen of history, Eusébio da Silva Ferreira was instantly recognisable by his first name alone.
“I go to the market every Sunday; I know what it takes for a family of four or five to put food on the table, to put shelter and so forth.
It would probably not be an overstatement to say that the year just passed was dominated by events in the Middle East.
What politicians do, the decisions they make and the pronouncements which they place in the public domain have to do first and foremost with what they perceive to be best for their political fortunes.
The announcement on Saturday by Muri Brasil Ventures Inc (MBVI) that it would no longer pursue its controversial Permission for Geographical and Geophysical Survey (PGGS) in the New River Triangle in southeastern Guyana has to be seen as a positive result for society’s struggle for openness and accountability in governance.
President Ramotar has now completed two years in office with a complement of ministers largely inherited from his predecessor.
Four days ago the temperature in Winnipeg fell to -31°C (with a mind-numbing -48°C wind chill), the city’s coldest day in 80 years and colder than surface temperatures at the North Pole and on Mars, according to the Manitoba Museum.
At the dawn of the New Year, most of us will have come through the past couple of weeks of religious observance, companionship and revelry, with great hopes for ourselves, our families and even our troubled country.
The year has come to an end in the Caricom part of the wider region with the IMF giving approval to Jamaica’s efforts at implementation of its Extended Fund Arrangement which had been laboriously finalized over a prolonged period that saw the electoral defeat of the Jamaica Labour Party Government led by Andrew Holness, and the assumption of office by the People’s National Party led by Portia Simpson, subsequently elected in December of 2011.
Once you understand the ebb and flow in the fortunes of Guyana’s public servants in their unending quest for better wages and, by extension, a higher standard of living, the paucity of the turnout for the December 20 protest march would have been entirely unsurprising.
The announcement by the government of the appointment of former judge, Mr Winston Moore as Ombudsman is most welcome.
There can be few places on the planet where it is more frustrating to live than Guyana.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s recent remarks on the perils of mass surveillance — broadcast by the UK’s Channel 4 television as an “alternative Christmas message” — are an eloquent reminder of the fragility of fundamental political freedoms, even in societies that pride themselves on being open and democratic.
The Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia is one of that country’s great sporting traditions.
Within the last fortnight or so, official and unofficial observers’ sights have been focused on the tussle between Russia and the European Union (EU) for influence over a Ukraine locked between them and internally divided within itself.
Valerie Amos would probably have dismissed the suggestion had it been made four or five years ago that the end of 2013 would find her engrossed in performing one of the least enviable tasks in international diplomacy, and yet that is precisely the position in which the 59-year-old international civil servant from Wakenaam finds herself.
What could have led to the government’s decision to terminate its participation in the USAID-funded Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project?
Valerie Amos would probably have dismissed the suggestion had it been made four or five years ago that the end of 2013 would find her engrossed in performing one of the least enviable tasks in international diplomacy, and yet that is precisely the position in which the 59-year-old international civil servant from Wakenaam finds herself.
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