Daily Archives: 04/18/2022

St. Rose’s Alumni Association USA – Brunch Honoring Males – Brooklyn NY – June 25. 2022

04/18/2022 – 12:25 pm

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GUYANA: Government: Auditing of the public accounts: – By Anand Goolsarran

04/18/2022 – 12:43 am

 — What about non-Central Government activities?

By April 11, 2022  – Mr. Goolsarran was a former Guyana Auditor General. He has a weekly column in Stabroek News.

In last week’s article, we discussed four of the seven infrastructure development projects financed by the Exim Bank of China that ran into serious difficulties during their execution stages – the Skeldon Sugar Modernisation Project; the One Laptop Per Family Project; the Fibre Optic Cable Project; and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Project. The first three have failed completely to deliver in terms of their objectives, outputs, outcomes and impacts, thereby encumbering the Guyana’s public debt in the tune of US$115.4 million, with little or nothing to show for the expenditure incurred.

This is in addition to the significant amounts expended as counterpart funding on these projects. In the case of the airport project, the works are still on-going after ten years, with a revised completion date of 20 June 2022. The original construction cost was estimated at US$150 million. This has now been revised to around US$200 million.            Continue reading →

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USA: Why Teenagers Are Experiencing A Severe Mental-Health Crisis – Opinion

04/18/2022 – 12:03 am

— Four forces are propelling the rising rates of depression among young people.

By Derek Thompson – April 11, 2022 – The Atlantic

The United States is experiencing an extreme teenage mental-health crisis. From 2009 to 2021, the share of American high-school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to 44 percent, according to a new CDC study. This is the highest level of teenage sadness ever recorded.

The government survey of almost 8,000 high-school students, which was conducted in the first six months of 2021, found a great deal of variation in mental health among different groups. More than one in four girls reported that they had seriously contemplated attempting suicide during the pandemic, which was twice the rate of boys. Nearly half of LGBTQ teens said they had contemplated suicide during the pandemic, compared with 14 percent of their heterosexual peers. Sadness among white teens seems to be rising faster than among other groups.        Continue reading →

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