Editorial

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.

On Thursday we reported Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Alleyne as saying that it was time for the anti-sodomy laws in Guyana to be made null and void, although he maintained that the act of homosexuality was still morally wrong.

As the Trump era nears its end, a potential flashpoint in the Middle East has underscored the brinkmanship of its diplomacy.

A number of prominent individuals and organisations in a letter to this newspaper on Wednesday are among those who have asked about the treatment of 26 Haitian nationals currently held at the Hugo Chávez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration.

World AIDS Day was observed on Tuesday last under the theme “Global Solidarity, Shared Responsibility”.

Last Wednesday, the sporting world paused for a few minutes as the news that Maradona had passed, circulated as quickly as an out-of-control bush fire.

Quite what would have triggered last week’s outburst by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) in response to correspondence sent to the Palm Court Restaurant and Bar by the COVID-19 Task Force in the matter of what the Task Force says is the popular downtown entertainment facility’s repeated breaching of the restrictions associated with the pandemic, is difficult to tell. 

Since taking office on August 2nd there has been frenetic activity by the PPP/C government in all sectors except for its legislative agenda where it is inexplicably still to present a range of bills that should have been in deep contemplation for months.

With the entry of each new government into office the electorate hears the same recitations about development.

Yesterday representatives from the African Union held desperate eleventh-hour talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to dissuade him from the ‘final phase’ of his military campaign to crush the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).

Illegal mining has been a major problem in the interior for many decades as a consequence of the high price of gold on the international market coupled with a negligent approach on the part of the authorities to the enforcement of the regulations.

Today the United States celebrates Thanksgiving; a tradition that reportedly dates back to 1621 when the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast, although it was not until nearly 250 years later in 1863, that the then president Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it a national holiday. Despite

Two Sundays ago, Lewis Hamilton, the British racing driver took the chequered flag at the Turkish Formula One (F1) Grand Prix.

The instances of the removal of Ms. Samantha Fedee and Mrs.

Yet again, Guyana has been implicated in a major international transshipment of cocaine.

Last week UWI issued a release stating that it was in the process of negotiating an agreement with the Government of Guyana to train up to 20,000 Guyanese over the next five years through the agency of its Open Campus.

President Trump’s slow-moving and mercifully incompetent coup underscores the scale of his defeat.

The government is reopening certain sugar estates, although they have not, as yet, spelt out what their larger plan for the industry is. 

A report this week that 483 pounds of imported, frozen duck which had been illegally imported from the United States since last year, and whose expiry date had passed, had been seized and dumped raises several important questions.

Last Friday morning, the Miami Marlins, one of the thirty teams in Major League Baseball (MLB), made an announcement which rocketed across the airwaves of the sports media world with the magnitude of an earthquake recorded at 8.0 on the Richter scale.