Editorial

It would be a rash person who would take on the role of Cassandra and predict what might happen in this country in the coming year.

This is a strange Christmas.  It probably doesn’t have any equivalent since the 1918-20 ͗flu pandemic which killed millions of people worldwide and took a heavy toll in Guyana as well.

Tomorrow is Christmas Day. It is a sacred, religious holiday meant to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, but in reality, it is a huge commercial event, a time of the year when businesses make their largest sales.

Last Wednesday, Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that seven Negro Baseball Leagues which functioned between 1920 and 1948 will be officially accorded with Major League status and the records of those seasons incorporated into the statistical data of MLB.

Last week’s brief and seemingly innocuous media release issued jointly by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) was not as run-of-the-mill as it might have seemed.

On Thursday, on the margins of the conferral of silk on three attorneys at State House, President Ali launched an attack on the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC).

Last Tuesday three ex-presidents and the current one held a forum at State House, sans Mr David Granger.

This week brought news that hackers, reportedly linked to Russia, had successfully penetrated critical US government infrastructure networks in a campaign that may have lasted for years.

The Guyana Police Force has an unparalleled ability to keep shooting itself in the foot. 

A week ago, maintaining a now 93-year-old tradition, Time magazine named its 2020 Person of the Year.

Monday was the Diamond Anniversary of the famous Tied Test between the West Indies and Australia which took place at the Brisbane Cricket Ground (BCG), in Queensland, Australia.

Over a period of less than two months, public pronouncements by heads of key regional development support organizations including Head of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr.

It had been hoped that former President Granger would have taken up the invitation by President Ali to meet with him and the three former PPP/C Presidents, Messrs Hinds, Jagdeo and Ramotar.

Guyana is supposed to be a parliamentary democracy.  Since the introduction of a presidential system in 1980, however, power has become concentrated in the hands of the head of state, and every president from Burnham onwards has made no moves to mitigate that.

Antitrust lawsuits like those facing Google and Facebook are essential if the Internet is to remain open and innovative.

Venezuela went to the polls on Sunday to vote for members of the National Assembly. 

Today is Human Rights Day. It was on this day, 72 years ago, that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The time of reckoning for West Indies Cricket has arrived and over the course of the next few days, developments both on and off the field will indicate in which direction our cricket is headed.

It had been evident from the start of the nighttime curfews and the various other strictures aimed at garnering a measure of public restraint as a means of restricting the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, that considerable numbers of people in communities all across the country, were indifferent to going down a road that would spread a restrictive canvass across their customary ways of life, not least, the manner in which they entertain themselves.

Speaking on Friday on the sidelines of the launch of the Canada Guyana Chamber of Commerce, President Irfaan Ali made the announcement that he had invited all former presidents to a meeting with him on December 15 to discuss national development.