Editorial

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.

When the 17th edition of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athletics Championships concluded on Sunday in Doha, Qatar, a gathering storm of dark clouds continued to linger over the world of athletics.

There are two realities about crime and law enforcement which have to be faced and these, regrettably, are likely to be around for some while.

It would be instructive for all citizens to examine where the nation and its prospects rest today after the epochal events of the last nine months.

It is not often that former heads of state or government admit to having made mistakes during their period of office, and in this country it is very rare indeed.

On Thursday President Trump seemed to tire of “adulting” his way through the present crisis and simply told the press that Ukraine should look into the Bidens’ business activities and perhaps Beijing ought to do the same.

On Wednesday Minister of Foreign Affairs Karen Cummings told the media that calls by the international community relative to the matter of holding elections in Guyana were unnecessary.

It is well known that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month; it is internationally observed.

On the 24th September, whilst celebrating Trinidad and Tobago’s 43rd anniversary as a Republic with members of the T&T diaspora in New York City, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, appears, to have quite innocently re-ignited the debate on the renaming of public institutions after persons who have served in high office.

On Friday evening, in a residential community in the capital, two young men, armed with knives and hopelessly intoxicated in the moment, set upon each other, inflicting wounds with a crazed sense of purpose.

As reported in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, the Department of Public Information (DPI) has drastically cut state advertising in Stabroek News without offering an explanation.

Last week, President Nicolás Maduro was in Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin. 

Not long ago, Justin Trudeau’s fondness for donning inappropriate costumes was safely confined to a handful of cringe-making photos from a state visit to India; Boris Johnson’s disregard for truth was discounted as a harmless quirk, or even seen as part of his blustery charm; Donald Trump’s mob-boss dialogue with world leaders was hard to watch, or read about, but not enough to induce a crisis.

President David Granger, who made the route to an election following the vote of no confidence last December an obstacle course of Herculean proportions, tossed yet another potential hurdle onto the electoral track on Wednesday.

Earlier this month, the Mayor and City Council was presented with a proposal for fixing the city’s overwhelming problems of solid waste disposal, which includes recycling and incineration.

One of the casualties of development and changes in society is the irretrievable loss of traditions and customs. 

Now that it has become clear that Guyana is well on the way towards beginning to build an oil and gas industry, Trinidad and Tobago has done nothing to conceal its intention to take advantage of what it clearly sees as significant investment opportunities arising out of the various services that it is positioned to provide given its own considerable experience in and knowledge of the industry.

Friday’s deportation from the US of convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan now places the onus on law enforcement authorities to conclude the requisite investigations into his activities here prior to his departure for Suriname in the middle of June 2006 where he was arrested and then taken into custody by the US authorities while transiting Trinidad and Tobago.

The Chair of GECOM has spoken. Justice Claudette Singh has written President David Granger to say that the commission would be ready “to deliver credible elections by the end of February 2020.”

The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities last weekend prompted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to accuse Iran of perpetrating an “act of war” and they have pushed the Middle East to the brink of a regional conflict.