In the United States of America (USA), the term “vehicular homicide” is used to describe the criminally negligent or murderous operation of a motor vehicle which results in the death of someone other than the driver of the said vehicle.
Tomorrow, Guyana joins the rest of the world in observing International Women’s Day under the theme promulgated by UN Women – the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change”.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government has been rocked to the core over the last week by the SNC-Lavalin affair.
Government, finally, appears to have come to terms with the reality of the wholly untenable nature of the relationship between itself and the Russian management of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.
From his recent correspondence with Justice (Rtd) James Patterson, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), President Granger has made it seem as if he always recognised the constitutional stipulation for general elections to be held within three months of the motion of no confidence which was passed against his government on December 21, 2018.
A new layer of complication has been introduced into Guyana’s already Byzantine politics.
In September 2016, as the most anti-intellectual political campaign in modern American history neared its end, a surprisingly highbrow defence of Trumpism appeared in the Claremont Review of Books.
Guyana has been besieged by a high level of domestic violence within families for some time now, and analysts might argue that domestic violence has long since assumed crisis proportions.
On its website’s homepage, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) proudly displays what it terms a ‘new GuySuCo’.
The 91st Academy Awards which were presented last Sunday has stirred the usual heated debates over ‘who won and who should have won’ in the respective categories, the most heated of which has centred on the winner in the Best Film category, The Green Book.
The statement of Sunday, February 24th by the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) addresses once again the unceasing contempt of the Russian managers of BCGI as much for Guyana as a sovereign state as for the country’s industrial relations laws, not least those that have to do with the rights of workers.
It is now clear to all and sundry that a firm alliance has been established between the APNU+AFC government and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to thwart the constitutional stipulation that general elections be held within three months of the December 21, 2018 motion of no confidence or if necessary in an enlarged timeframe agreed by two-thirds of the National Assembly.
Guyana’s politicians have failed us. Operating behind the barrier of our two major political cartels, they are answerable to their parties first and foremost, and not to the voters or even, in a more profound sense, to the best interests of the country.
In January 2013, after nearly seven years of silence on the bench, US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made a joke.
In the textbook “Principles of Biomedical Ethics,” authors Beauchamp and Childress address in detail four principles which for many have become the standard for the examination of ethical issues in the medical system.
City Hall announced last week that it was about to “recommence an aggressive campaign which aims at the removal of all derelict vehicles and other encumbrances from roadsides, sidewalks, parapets and reserves belonging to the city”, adding that the owners would be fined for the removal and storage of such encumbrances.
Last Friday, the owners of the thirty-two teams in the National Football League (NFL) took the very significant decision to settle a nearly two year collusion lawsuit with the former San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Ever since the Russian aluminum giant RUSAL ‘set up shop’ in Guyana in 2004 the company has made clear its discomfort with the industrial relations laws of Guyana, specifically those that afford employees of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.
On July 19, 2017, following a landmark ruling by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George on the classes of persons eligible to be appointed as Chairman of GECOM, President Granger struck a defiant note.
The week before last, the UK Economist published a piece on ExxonMobil and Guyana.
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