Opinion

Taking to the streets

Recent street protests in Algeria, Chile, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Russia indicate a groundswell of political discontent that stretches across the globe.

Getting out the message

At a Press Association dinner last Saturday Foreign Secretary Carl Greenidge expressed his concern about the fact that the narrative of the controversy pertaining to Guyana’s border with Venezuela was being relayed to the world in a way which was “distorted and untrue.”

Food for life

Last Friday, when she hosted a symposium for Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) farmers, Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Valerie Adams-Yearwood was quoted as telling them that the forecast showed “a bright future… for agriculture in the Rupununi, if economic development is pursued in a way that conserves the region’s cultural and natural heritage…”, this is according to the Department of Public Information.

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