Editorial

Just over two months after the administering of the first COVID-19 vaccine on February 11th to a health worker, the government announced that inoculations would be available to  all persons over 18.

On Friday it was reported that Raúl Castro was stepping down from his leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba.

By the end of this week, Ontario could no longer deny that the province’s third wave of Covid infections had become a crisis.

On June 13, 1980, outside the Georgetown Prison, a walkie-talkie in the lap of Dr Walter Rodney exploded, killing him.

What do the Mazoa Mountain in the Rupununi, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine) and Ianna Landing in Barima-Waini (Region One) have in common?

Last Sunday, the Twenty-second Annual General Meeting of Cricket West Indies (CWI) was held, with Mr Ricky Skerritt and Dr Kishore Shallow being duly re-elected unopposed to serve a second two-year term as President and Vice President, respectively.

The disclosure that there exists a disparity between the ‘conditions of service’ afforded the Guyana men’s national soccer team, on the one hand, and those ‘enjoyed’ by their female counterparts (‘the Lady Jags’), on the other, would have been shocking to many Guyanese.

The Ministry of Education has formally embarked on its ambitious Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) project which will be presiding over 20,000 scholarships in five years with 4,500 to be awarded this year.

It is hardly surprising that the Opposition feels isolated.  Leaving aside its disreputable attempt to rig the 2020 election, since it went out of office on August 2nd it has played the few cards left in its hand extraordinarily badly. 

Last June, twenty-four Sinn Féin politicians attended the funeral of a senior IRA figure despite public-health rules introduced during the pandemic.

The government has been in office for more than eight months yet still it has not named heads to some key missions, despite all the talk about the role they could play in encouraging investment to this country.

One of the highlights of this time of the year in many places around the world is the blooming of Sakura or cherry blossoms.

The FIFA 2022 World Cup qualifiers have commenced and the attention-grabbing headline story in the CONCACAF zone has been the ongoing squabble between the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and their players over match fees.

It is difficult to dismiss the advent of a distinct sense that Guyana is now entering into a decisive ‘zone’ insofar as the COVID-19 pandemic is concerned.

On August 24th last year, Stabroek News reported Minister of Public Affairs Kwame McCoy as saying that President Ali would be having regular engagements with the media and public.

It was All Fools Day when it came to public attention that the section of Merriman Mall between Albert and Light Streets was being converted into a car park.

It is not often that a funeral oration attracts nationwide attention. 

Since his appointment as Minister of Health in August last year, Dr Frank Anthony has not been shy about lambasting the previous government over what he said was a “broken healthcare system”.

“Caribbean cricket has been hijacked by a small clique of people who are hell bent on destroying Caribbean cricket and my position [is], unless the question is answered as to who owns that asset, we’re spinning top in mud,” stated Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley in mid-April 2017, during an interview on the Trinidad and Tobago television station CNC3’s Morning Brew show.

If there appears to be a tiresome redundancy of comment on the extent of public indifference to the strictures associated with the country’s efforts to keep the worst excesses of the Coronavirus at bay, that is because of the need to constantly remind ourselves that we are in the midst of a global emergency and that we ignore those strictures, possibly at our own peril.