Editorial

So the Ministry of Education has finally verbalized a commitment to supporting   teachers who come under in-school attacks by parents.

Can the decision announced late Friday by ANUG, the LJP and TNM to join their lists for the purpose of assigning parliamentary seats be a game-changer in alliance politics in this the 50th year of Republicanism?

Constitutional reform seems to be this year’s watchword for nearly all parties going into the elections. 

Earlier this week, a joke went viral on Twitter. “It’s been 6 months since I joined the gym and no progress,” wrote Tony Starch.

First there were nineteen, then there were thirteen, then there were eleven and now there are nine.

When the Brazilian indigenous leaders gathered in Xingu Park in the Amazon end their four-day meeting tomorrow, they will likely have consensus on how they will approach opposing the planned legalisation of between 500 and 800 garimpo mines, as well as the opening up of their reservations to logging and large-scale farming.

The fallout from the decision by the Trump Administration to approve the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani continues to grow.

A few weekends ago during the course of a conversation with a female University student the young woman declared that the real problem with workplace sexual harassment is that the magnitude of the problem for exceeds official and wider public understanding of its nature and extent.

With Nomination Day over, the focus will now intensify on ensuring that the March 2nd 2020 General and Regional Elections are free and fair.

Anyone who thinks Guyana’s politics are complicated, confusing and exhausting has not been following the events which have been convulsing Venezuela’s political universe.

In a recent exchange on the fate of liberal democracy, British historian Niall Ferguson and the Canadian scholar-politician Michael Ignatieff offered almost diametrically opposed views of the short-term political future.

We have had Mao’s Little Red Book, Gadaffi’s Little Green Book, and metaphorically speaking, the Little Black Book. 

On Sunday last, in this newspaper’s column ‘Women’s Chronicles’ under the headline “Madness in Mahdia”, a young woman related experiences that could only be deemed frightening and completely reprehensible.

At a gathering of friends, lively exchanges of views and opinions on the topics of the day, whether it is politics, oil revenues, tax laws or the impacts of social media, are a guaranteed part of the proceedings.

Just before the close of schools in December an announcement was made to the effect that a ban was being placed on the customary in-school Christmas ‘bash’ euphemistically referred to as a Christmas Party and that a much less rumbustious event, a sort of ‘social,’ as events of that nature are described, where music would be limited to the singing of Christmas Carols and where social intercourse would be confined to the uniformed teenagers exchanging seasonal pleasantries would be held.

An 11-point declaration by the Ministry of Public Health garnered viral status on social media on Friday after its mainly innocuous asseverations were headlined by a Christian invocation.

At the dawn of what was both a new year and a new decade, President David Granger delivered the head of state’s customary address to the nation.

Less than a week into the new decade, monsoon rains and overflowing rivers have flooded nearly 200 Jakartan neighbourhoods claiming dozens of lives and displacing nearly 400,000 Indonesians.

The odds are that the mass of the population, located as it is on the coastland, paid little attention to the observances in relation to the Inter-national Year of Indigenous Languages, which concluded on December 31, 2019.

Twenty years ago today, at the stroke of midnight, the turn of the century, world leaders braced themselves for the start of potential chaos within their borders.