“I do not trust y’all.” Those words reverberated across the Arthur Chung Conference Centre as families stood, one at a time, to address the Commission of Inquiry into the MV Barima tragedy, Those words exposed the distance between the CoI, offering to establish the truth, and bereaved families struggling to believe another official promise.
In a world ravaged by war, growing disregard for fundamental human rights and the undermining of the rule of law internationally, yesterday’s Nobel Peace Prize award to the indefatigable South African judge Navi Pillay sends a powerful message to those leaders engaged in these transgressions.
The allegations against Deputy Commissioner Fazil Karimbaksh, head of the Special Organised Crime Unit, confront Guyana with a test of constitutional government.
Our democracy functions within a dysfunctional framework. We have a Constitutional Reform Commission charged with consulting the public and formulating proposals for revising our foundation document, but the very composition of that body illustrates how far we have strayed from the principles which underpin any genuine democratic polity.
On October 2nd, National Border Patrol Director, Daniel Seeram was found guilty by Magistrate Abigail Gibbs of a serious assault on his former wife and ordered remanded to prison pending sentencing on November 2nd.
“Put yuh money whey yuh mouth deh” is an expression that is often used in Guyana as a challenge to show commitment to what one says through one’s actions.
Acting on complaints he said that he received from pensioners, civil society activist Christopher Ram backed by ten unions has written to the National Insurance Board (NIB) calling for compliance and the payment of arrears owed.
Over the past few weeks, a rather disturbing trend has appeared in the news. At least two aircraft have overrun or departed their respective aerodromes.
On September 30th, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Priya Manickchand visited the Thomas Street Avenue alongside representatives of the UK’s King’s Foundation to assess ongoing works on what was described as the first project being undertaken under President Irfaan Ali’s Healthy Streets Initiative.
Several days since revolting rape allegations were published about a senior member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), there has been utter silence from the GPF and the Minister of Home Affairs, Oneidge Walrond.
In a recent interview with a local television station, President Irfaan Ali disclosed that the MV Barima tragedy continues to cause him “sleepless nights.”
On September 28, Justice Nicola Pierre ordered the Commissioner of Information Charles Ramson Snr. to process and determine within 60 days three requests for information by commentator Christopher Ram.
The government appears determined to convince Guyanese that access to purified water can be improved one five-gallon container at a time.
In one of the customary messages marking World Tourism Day yesterday, the Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), Kamrul Baksh issued the usual glowing descriptors but there were no hard facts.
In March 2025, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Guyana and held discussions with President Irfaan Ali.
Wednesday’s opening of the 27th INTERPOL Americas Regional Conference brought with it the deeply troubling warning that criminal syndicates in the region are increasingly employing illegal gold mining to move and conceal profits from the cocaine trade.
Many editorials and public commentaries have appeared since the MV Barima tragedy expressing growing unease over the Government’s handling of both the disaster and its aftermath.
When Priya Manickchand was Minister of Education, she wrote to Stabroek News to settle a question about who was responsible for children living in regional school dormitories.
In the wake of the July 18 sinking of the MV Barima that claimed around 100 lives it is deeply troubling that aircraft flying into hinterland airstrips have had to contend with incursions by animals.
Pesticides are so commonplace in modern agriculture that many forget they are poisons. Designed, as they are, to kill weeds, insects, and other organisms that threaten crops, their usefulness is rarely if ever in dispute.