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  • The Gilhuys decision

    By Staff | Monday, September 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

    While the decision of the DPP’s Chambers not to recommend any charges against Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys over the shooting of a policeman has been considered on its merits, it cannot be divorced from the milieu in which it has been introduced. Guyana... Read more »

  • Literacy Day

    By Staff | Sunday, September 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Tomorrow is International Literacy Day. Not that these occasions usually mean very much other than to give the topic du jour a fleeting blip on the global radar screen. However, in this country following the killing and capture of some members of Guyana’s... Read more »

  • Usain Bolt’s achievements

    By Staff | Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 1 Comment

    Usain Bolt’s triumphs in Beijing can all be viewed in less than a minute. After several years of near-misses because of injuries and inexperience, he needed slightly less than forty seconds to show he could outrun the world’s other fastest men, by... Read more »

  • An unfulfilled vision

    By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

    Some weeks ago, we were treated to a fairly lively but short-lived dispute – what the British might call an argy-bargy – in our letters column over the question of the late President Cheddi Jagan’s legacy. Much of what was written did not go beyond... Read more »

  • The Hansib proposal

    By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Mr Arif Ali, a Guyanese who migrated to the United Kingdom more than half a century ago and who, during that time, has become the most successful publisher of Caribbean origin in Europe, has openly made the Government of Guyana an interesting proposal. Before... Read more »

  • A poisoned chalice for Mr Obama

    By Staff | Thursday, September 4, 2008 | 6 Comments

    In his recently published book The new paradigm for financial markets – the credit crisis of 2008 and what it means the billionaire speculator, former hedge-fund manager and philanthropist George Soros paints an exceedingly grim picture of the state... Read more »

  • Britain’s preoccupations

    By Staff | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

    The statement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling last week that the British economy is likely to go through its worst experience for sixty years, will probably have come as a shock to many within the country as well as to others in the international... Read more »

  • Why blame the bank?

    By Staff | Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | 3 Comments

    Admitting to difficulties in the implementation of the community action component of the proposed Citizens’ Security Programme, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee last month accused the Inter-American Development Bank of attempting to define the... Read more »

  • Carifesta X dividend?

    By Staff | Monday, September 1, 2008 | 0 Comments

    When the seeds of Carifesta were first sowed several years before its grand inauguration in George-town in 1972, the objective was really to provide an expansive, unlimiting space within which artists of excellence from all parts and representing a multitude... Read more »

  • Rawlins’ gang

    By Staff | Sunday, August 31, 2008 | 6 Comments

    A huge collective sigh of relief reverberated around the land when the police revealed that Rondell Rawlins was no more. It does not mean, of course, that our problems are at an end in terms of armed criminals who gun citizens down as though they were... Read more »

  • The insidiousness of poverty

    By Staff | Saturday, August 30, 2008 | 3 Comments

    When the prices of food and oil on the world market eventually peak, and there is no indication that this will happen any time soon, there will be millions more poverty-stricken people, particularly in developing countries – not that this is totally... Read more »

  • The Caribbean dream

    By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

    The Olympics are finally over and for many sports fans life is getting back to normal. But the images linger and every armchair athlete among us will have his or her own favourite Olympic moment. It might be Michael Phelps’s superhuman efforts in the... Read more »

  • EPA rumblings

    By Staff | Thursday, August 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

    When the Director General of the Caribbean Regional Economic Machinery (CRNM) and his team concluded their negotiations with the European Commission, he no doubt felt a sense of relief that this long drawn out and complex discussion had come to an end,... Read more »

  • A partial view of the forest

    By Staff | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | 15 Comments

    The Lost Land of the Jaguar, a three-part BBC documentary broadcast earlier this month, should be required viewing for any Guyanese who have not yet visited the interior. Although it is equal parts reality television and wildlife programme – recording... Read more »

  • Chronicle of a charade

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | 8 Comments

    Come September, one year would have elapsed since the start of a spate of allegations of torture against the Guyana Defence Force, Guyana Police Force and Guyana Prison Service. The past eleven months have also experienced a cynical and sometimes comical... Read more »

  • Birth certificates

    By Staff | Monday, August 25, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The very painstaking work entailed by the house-to-house registration exercise has revealed the number of persons who were unable to register because they didn’t have the all-important birth certificate in their possession.  Based on figures released... Read more »

  • Tickets

    By Staff | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | 3 Comments

    A letter from Mr Louis Holder in our edition on Friday criticized the issuing of free tickets for Carifesta events. It is a position not without merit, despite the fact that the decision to allow free access to all performances was inspired by the very... Read more »

  • Lasting impressions

    By Staff | Saturday, August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

    Over the past several weeks, there has been a spring cleaning fervour unmatched by anything anyone in this country has seen over the past two or three decades. It has surpassed the sprucing up delivered for Cricket World Cup, since areas that were not... Read more »

  • Another Manning Initiative

    By Staff | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Last week Thursday, Prime Minister Patrick Manning of Trinidad and Tobago used the opportunity of an official visit by the new Prime Minister of Grenada, Tillman Thomas, to invite the leaders of St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines to join them... Read more »

  • Actualizing plans on paper

    By Staff | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Up until now the Four Year Strategic and Operational Plan ‘rolled out’ by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) last Wednesday is exactly what it says it is – a Plan, an ambitious and forward-looking Plan but a Plan, nonetheless;... Read more »

  • Philistinism

    By Staff | Thursday, August 21, 2008 | 1 Comment

      The Ministers of Culture and Health should hang their heads in shame. One of the architectural gems of this country has been allowed to fall into such a state of disrepair that it is most unlikely that the government will be in a position to fund the... Read more »

  • A new Cold War?

    By Staff | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

    Hints of pre-1989 times have characterized the international atmosphere over the last week, as the United States fully responded to Russia’s intervention into South Ossetia and Abkhazia, populated by Russian citizens and persons of non-Georgian descent,... Read more »

  • Facts, not fears

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 5 Comments

    Civil society must not allow the serious debate on crime to be diluted by anecdote or to degenerate into sterile political badinage. Judgement must be based on a rigorous assessment of the evidence. Contribu-tions to accumulating evidence on crime will... Read more »

  • A flurry of bills

    By Staff | Monday, August 18, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Government’s recent presentation of a flurry of bills on security and law and order has quite properly raised concerns. The first was the haste with which the tabling was done. It has been argued in the past that the government must have a well-paced... Read more »