Editorial

Darkness Visible – Toni Morrison’s legacy

Toni Morrison – the first black woman to win a Nobel Prize – died during a week marked by senseless gun violence and cringe-inducing vulgarity from a leader whose political career began with his implacable hatred of a black president.

Drug treatment court

While the horizon must seem unrelievedly grim to many citizens, once in a while a few specks of bright light appear to relieve the gloom.

Deadly addiction

On Monday last, NBC news in the United States carried a story of a Roman Catholic priest in Florida who had been arrested the previous Saturday night after a breathalyzer test allegedly showed that he was two times over the legal limit to drive.

Double standards

It is quite understandable that fans of international swimming are once again rather bemused and disgruntled following developments at the 18th World Aquatic Championships which were held from the 12th to 28th July in Gwangju, South Korea.

The National Park on Emancipation Day

Some uplifting things occurred in the course of the Emancipation Day festivities at the National Park last Thursday; and If ever we arrive at a point where considerations of race and ethnicity cease to be a barrier to the sense of nationhood to which we say we aspire, or at least if we can, somehow, manage to leave the historic toxicity of racial division behind, that may well be the result of the incremental effects of manifestations like those at the National Park on Thursday.

Constitutional governance

In an affidavit filed by Deputy Solicitor-General Deborah Kumar in the challenge brought by Christopher Ram against the ongoing house-to-house registration exercise, Attorney General, Basil Williams SC has made another spurious excuse for the government not abiding with constitutional strictures imposed as a result of the passage of the December 21, 2018 motion of no confidence against the government.

Haitians

The matter of the number of Haitians entering Guyana has raised its head again.

Facial recognition technology

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan, never a one for great reflection on our liberal values, was unsurprisingly in full rapturous mode at the launch of the Safe City surveillance system in Georgetown last week. 

Freedom

Today Guyana observes the 181st anniversary since African slaves who had been brought to this part of the world were freed from the abominable, dehumanising condition of captivity, which to date defies definition.

Fortnite World Cup

The 1975 sci-fi film Rollerball, directed and produced by the well known Canadian director Norman Jewison, projected what the sporting world was going to be in this century.

Address to diplomats

On Thursday President David Granger invited members of civil society and the diplomatic community to listen to a presentation at separate engagements in the Baridi Benab.

Finally, a consensual GECOM Chairman

On July 26, President Granger and Opposition Leader Jagdeo were finally able to discharge their constitutional obligations in relation to a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Resisting the new normal

Six hours of testimony from special prosecutor Robert Mueller highlighted the dilemma facing the Democrats in the run-up to the 2020 US election.

Temporising

There can be no head of state since 1980 who has displayed more of a capacity for temporising than President David Granger.

Pollution solutions

Just recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cut two massive swathes in pollution problems that have been causing some amount of grief.

Fear

“The only thing that I fear is fear itself,” a Formula One driver once observed.

UNICEF’s take on fast foods and weight gain in schoolchildren

Even with the various other developmental challenges that are on its plate our   policy-makers, particularly those responsible for overseeing the child health regime in the  schools system, should take a serious look at the UNICEF 2019 “State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World” report which, in its section on the global problem of overweight and obesity, makes a point of saying that the overarching concern over this particular health challenge extends to schoolchildren, worldwide. 

House-to-house registration

On Saturday, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) commenced house-to-house registration across the country for the purpose of creating a new National Register of Registrants from which a new preliminary voters list is to be extracted.

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