Ralph Ramkarran

The voters’ list is created by law. It is extracted from the national register when an order is made by the Elections Commission.

As the 2020 elections drew near, three new and small political parties, A New and United Guyana (ANUG), The New Movement (TNM) and Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), decided to enhance their chances of gaining representation in the National Assembly.

The AFC burst on the political scene in 2005. Raphael Trotman and Khemraj Ramjattan, its main leaders, along with Sheila Holder, were leading members of the PNCR and PPP respectively.

I congratulate the ten Judges who have been appointed and wish them well in the discharge of their important duties.

President Putin’s visit to North Korea and the revival of a Cold War defence treaty of mutual support has exacerbated the security concerns of the West, the US, South Korea and Japan.

For several decades the Government’s response to allegations of the existence of corruption was: Where’s the evidence?

News reports yesterday suggest that the Ministry of Education will soon pronounce on the issue of the flogging of ten Queen’s College students by a senior teacher which occurred on May 16.

There is always much to write about Guyana. But whether there is anything this week beyond the regular news, good and bad, to interest the reader enough to spend fifteen minutes on a Sunday morning on an 800-word article, is doubtful. 

Birthdays are always a time for celebration and reflection. Many Guyanese will feel happy that we have survived as a united nation.

The untimely passing in January last of the able and distinguished Justice Jacob Wit of the Netherlands has created a vacancy in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Marxism has been in the news recently with our governing political party, the PPP, finally removing it from its constitution on the ground that it’s an ‘ism,’ a relic of the past.

The issue of presidential immunity reached a high point in the United States during last week in the hearing of a case in the United States Supreme Court brought by former President Donald Trump.

“I lived here when I was a little girl,” Gaiutra Bahadur pleaded nostalgically to the security guard, unsuccessfully seeking entry to the derelict Wales Estate compound.

Guyanese need no evidence of the perfidy of Venezuela. Before the ink was dry on the Geneva Agreement signed in February 1966 and on the Order in Council granting Independence to Guyana from British colonialism in May 1966, Venezuela invaded Guyana’s half of Ankoko in October 1966 and has since been in illegal occupation of the island.

In 2012, in an article in the PPP’s Mirror newspaper, I argued that while the Government had done much to curb corruption, the time had come to consider additional preventative measures.

Haiti became independent in 1804 when Dessalines assumed the role of Governor General, later assuming the title of Emperor.

A review of third parties, their roles and future, were discussed in SN’s editorial yesterday against the background of VP Jagdeo’s announcement that the PPP was ready for the challenge.

The legacy of Dr. Cheddi Jagan emerges for consideration in March every year, the month of his birth and of his passing.

The Civil Procedure Rules provide that a Court may, on its own initiative, order any or all parties to a proceeding to participate in a mediation.

 I was very much tempted this weekend to write about Devils, Bastards and Demons – the words used by self-styled ‘Elder’ and promoter of moral revivalism, former PNC ‘strongman,’ Prime Minister Hamilton Green.