Editorial

Recognition is customarily accorded to a country’s government on the basis that it is a de facto government.

A few days ago, as H.bomberguy livestreamed a session of Donkey Kong 64 on the gaming platform Switch, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Representative for New York’s 14th Congressional District, entered the conversation as an “[Unidentified Caller].”

Guyana’s entire medical system, government and private has never been made accountable for medical errors or malpractice.

Would you change the way you eat to save the world?

When the West Indies take the field this morning at the start of the First Test versus Joe Root’s England team fans throughout the Caribbean will be taking surreptitious glances throughout the day at the nearest television set, hoping that this is the long awaited new beginning.

The 2017 Report by the “Ministerial Task Force on the Revitalization of The Cooperative Movement in Guyana”, information from which was published in last Friday’s issue of the Stabroek Business was by far the most candid official assessment of the performance of cooperatives in Guyana to have been seen in several years.

Saturday’s election of Mr Irfaan Ali as the PPP/C presidential candidate for the general elections to be held in three months from December 21st is unsurprising.

Nothing could have done more to persuade the electorate that our politicians are utterly cynical than the pantomime which has been playing out over MPs having dual citizenship in contravention of the Constitution.

A New York Times Op-Ed by Pankaj Mishra calls the comedy of errors which Brexit has become a ‘moment of moral dereliction by the county’s rulers.’

At a time when the entire world seems to be experiencing unprecedented change in some way or the other, it is important that the institutions of the state function with a clear focus and systematic efficiency, to avoid becoming swept up in, or swept away by this unrelenting stream of change.

Anyone who views shows originating in the United States, whether on a television channel, YouTube or other online platforms funded by commercials would be familiar with the rampant advertising employed by global pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Last Friday, the wives and girlfriends of the members of that long suffering group, the West Indies Test Cricket Fan Club, had to endure an annual ritual which coincided with the arrival of the sixteenth English Test team in Barbados.

There was little that was either new or shocking about the revelations contained in the Kennard City Hall Commission of Inquiry Report.

On January 3rd  –  just hours after the Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland had declined to revisit the December 21, 2018  motion of no-confidence that resulted in the defeat of the APNU+AFC government, the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill 2018 was passed after being presented for second and third reading by the Minister of Finance Winston Jordan.

The problem with Guyana – and this applies to many developing countries – is that the things which really matter in terms of the definition of a country and its identity over an extended timeframe, have to compete for limited funding with what are deemed to be urgent needs.

In 1801, writing to John Dickinson, a fellow founding father, Thomas Jefferson advised his colleague that “if we do not learn to sacrifice small differences of opinion, we can never act together.

Guyana’s unique geographical location on the North Atlantic coast of the South American continent has many benefits including being accessible to water transportation such as cargo, luxury and other vessels.

November 26, last year was the last time the major garbage removal contracting companies withdrew their services from Georgetown, citing non-payment of huge outstanding sums of money and following a nauseating pattern that has unfolded for more than a decade.

While the rest of the world is still busy adjusting to the commencement of the New Year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology convention kicked off last Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada, with most of the world’s leading electronic giants holding press conferences to announce their latest innovations.

So it seems that we may be on the verge of a Code of Conduct for the minibus industry which, if it can be suitably crafted and effectively implemented (and those are big if’s) can go a far way in raising standards of public order and significantly improving customer service in one of the most important enterprises in the service sector.