Editorial

Procurement Commission

The life of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) unfortunately came to an end yesterday at a crucial juncture both in terms of the work that it had been doing and the country’s intersection with the imminent oil and gas economy which will see a vast expansion of procurement.

Centre For Change. AFC HQ. (AFC Guyana photo)
Centre For Change. AFC HQ. (AFC Guyana photo)

AFC

The fate of the AFC as a viable political party will be determined in the not-too-distant future. 

Breaking the news on Facebook

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed to have little idea of what lay ahead when he appeared before the US Congress’ Financial Services Committee earlier this week.

New parties

“That comes as a surprise,” we quoted AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan as saying when told that Mr Robert Badal, along with Mr Nigel Hinds were launching a new political party called Change Guyana.

In praise of Iwokrama

News this week that transgressors had recently been caught performing illegal logging and mining in the Iwokrama rainforest should raise the ire in all of us.

Espionage in sport

The espionage world, one previously dominated by governments in their quests to acquire military and government information on their adversaries, and popularized by various films and television series, now appears to have developed as a new sub-culture in the world of sport.

Unconstitutional gov’t and cash transfers

That President Granger was moved at a New Amsterdam forum on Friday to reassert that he was a `constitutional President’ demonstrates the great difficulty he faces in convincing at least half the people of the country and key sections of the international community that he is anything more than just a caretaker President and functioning only to clear the path for early general elections.

Violent crime

Prior to the APNU+AFC coalition winning office, the assumption in many quarters was that should Mr David Granger become president, then there would be an improvement in the crime situation on account of the security experience he would bring to bear on the problem. 

A principled politician

Elijah Cummings, the 12-term Democratic congressman who passed away two days ago at the age of 68, belonged to a political culture that seems increasingly remote from the incivility which prevails in the Age of Trump.

The Mabaruma solar farm

Two years ago, the Meeco Group of Germany was awarded a contract worth $227,706,890 (US$1,088,046.90) for the design, supply and installation of a 440-kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (PV) farm at Mabaruma in Region One (Barima/Waini).

Breaking the barrier

Early last Saturday morning, in the Prater, an amusement park in Vienna, Austria, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge became the first man to complete the marathon, a distance of 26.2 miles, in a time of less than two hours.

Doing better by our teachers

One of the issues that arose out of the various public pronouncements made during the course of the 2019 Education Month activities was the importance of building a cadre of teachers strong enough to adequately deliver the curriculum to children across the country, taking account of the increasingly weighty demands that will be placed on the country’s education system, going forward. 

GECOM shenanigans

In recent months there has been sufficient cause to be concerned that there is a rogue outfit operating within the elections secretariat/machinery to create maximum administrative confusion, further delay the scheduled general elections and to tinker with well-established timelines and schedules.

Russia and hemispheric geopolitics

A number of news organisations, including the BBC, have produced pieces on Russia’s growing global reach, and President Vladimir Putin’s apparent mission to re-establish his country’s influence in world affairs and engineer a return to spheres of influence.

Prisoner rehabilitation

During the celebration held to observe the 36th anniversary of the Guyana Prison Service, Director of Prisons (ag) Gladwin Samuels gave an address where he said that punishment without rehabilitation condemned an individual to an existence without hope.

Gamechanger

The World Health Organization (WHO) hit a significant goal with FIFA last Friday (no pun intended), which, once it works, could mean a major advance in its anti-tobacco battle.

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