Ralph Ramkarran

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.

It can hardly be denied that the public servants, including teachers, deserve to be paid more.

Reading between the lines of the reports coming out of the recent engagements between US Government officials and the Arab community in Michigan, it is clear that President Biden has lost a large section of Arab American support.

In an article entitled “Looming Guyana Crisis Tests Biden Foreign Policy Priorities,” published on 22 January, 2024, on the website of US Senator Marco Rubio, a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who is influential on issues on Latin America, the Senator expressed views on Venezuela, Guyana, the border controversy, relations between the US and Venezuela and US and Guyana. 

Over the past two weeks there have been a number of newspaper comments complaining about the size of Guyana’s national debt.

Stabroek News, as in past years, has highlighted the ‘Ram and McRae 2024 Budget Review,’ which provides a readable synopsis and commentary on the budget proposals.

Ms. Blinne Ni Ghralaigh KC is a British/Irish barrister and one of eight lawyers who addressed the International Court of Justice in the case Concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v Israel).

The first publicized act emanating from Guyana’s joining of the UN Security Council is a condemnation of the Houthi’s attacks on shipping on the Red Sea.

After a lapse of seven years, hitherto unheard of, a Judicial Service Commission was finally appointed in July.