Opinion

Trinidad at fifty

Trinidad & Tobago, caught in the headwinds of Olympic gold medal and bronze medal successes, was able to put all its troubles aside last week, as it celebrated, following Jamaica,  fifty years as a sovereign state.

Whither Non Alignment

Shortly before the start of last month’s Sixteenth Summit of Heads of Non Aligned countries in Tehran, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird issued a robust statement urging United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to turn down the invitation to attend the meeting in the Iranian capital.

NDC and Ministry of Housing have not removed squatters from reserved land in Chateau Margot

Dear Editor, Regarding the matter of the Timehri North Developmental Council (TNDC), a group representing the 2,364 residents who have been asked to remove from their homes near the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, we wish to share with your readers that several dozen people have over the years in the same manner occupied a strip of reserved land along the sideline dam at Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara, to the inconvenience of the bona fide landowners resident there.

Mercury and mining

On the heels of Mining Week this year, the Chairman of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, Major General (rtd) Joe Singh resigned from his position citing a motion of no confidence that had been moved against him by the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) at one of their meetings. 

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