Editorial

On Monday this newspaper issued an appeal to President David Granger in the form of a Page One Comment.

Part of the magic of the Kaieteur National Park – that is apart from the waterfall itself – is a tiny amphibian, the golden rocket frog (Anomalog-lossus beebei) which is not only indigenous to the area, but lives only in one plant, the giant terrestrial tank bromeliad (Brocchinia mircrantha).

On Monday West Indies cricket fans received a harsh reality check on the status of their team in the current hierarchy of international one day cricket when Bangladesh inflicted a sound thrashing in their fifth round encounter at the 2019 ICC World Cup.

There are some things about the proliferation of reports regarding the presence of narcotics (latterly it is the drug ecstasy that has been ‘making the running,’ so to speak) in schools that are deeply troubling.

Predictably, in its report on the IMF Article IV visit, the Department of Public Information (DPI) on Saturday stated that Prime Minister Nagamootoo had declared to the mission that “all is well in Guyana on the governance front”.

Whoever believes that there is an easy route out of Guyana’s political dilemma is probably labouring under a misapprehension.

On Thursday more than twenty photojournalists wore helmets, gas masks and protective clothing to a police press conference in Hong Kong to express their outrage at the violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations.

The way Georgetown is run never ceases to amaze. There is Chief Engineer Colvern Venture only this week again exhorting citizens not to dump garbage in the drains and waterways.

Last Friday, this newspaper published a report about an aggrieved mother and grandmother who is searching for answers.

The twelfth edition of the ICC World Cup kicked off on the 30th May with the hosts England defeating South Africa by 104 runs.

The disclosure towards the end of May that the Guyana-Suriname Ferry Service had been suspended (for how long this will remain the case is, as yet, unclear) on account of what appears to be serious mechanical problems afflicting the MV Canawaima, would probably not have come as a complete shock to frequent users of the service.

What President Granger had to say on Thursday on the environment and, in particular, the protection of the rivers of this country is most welcome.

The US travel advisory for Guyana, which was issued at the end of last month, was given extensive coverage in the media for reasons which are not too far to seek.

In April 1989, university students in Beijing used the funeral of Hu Yaobang, a general secretary of China’s Communist Party (CCP), as a rallying point for protests against the government’s obsessive control of their lives.

Since the era of Forbes Burnham, the Guyana Chronicle has never succeeded in unshackling itself from the political forces of the day. 

Award-winning R&B, Pop and Hip-Hop legend Beyoncé answers the title question quite evocatively in her single of the same name.

The International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy met for the second time last week, in Ottawa.

We begin from the perspective that traffic management, when added to overall law enforcement, saddles the Guyana Police Force with a level of responsibility which the human and material resources at its disposal does not allow it to deliver to the general satisfaction of the citizenry as a whole.

With the passing on Friday of social justice activist Andaiye, this is an appropriate point to reflect on the sage words she co-authored with Eusi Kwayana and Moses Bhagwan in the Stabroek News’ In the Diaspora column of January 8, 2018 on the APNU+AFC government’s stewardship and the plight of the laid-off sugar workers.

Tertiary education is enormously expensive to fund.  While some fortunate older universities in the Western world might receive endowments from wealthy alumni from time to time, or in the case of the UK, might own property which allows them to earn a bit of extra income, the vast bulk of funding for tertiary institutions derives from tuition fees and state subventions.