Editorial

Reports from neighbouring Brazil indicate that the congressional opposition is gaining momentum in its bid to garner 342 votes in the Chamber of Deputies to approve the formal initiation of the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff on April 17.

One in every 12 people in the Americas, 62 million and counting, are currently living with diabetes.

It must, by now, be quite obvious to listeners last Sunday, that Darren Sammy, the West Indies T20 Cricket captain could not, with such a large population hearing him, and at a high point of personal and team success, contain himself from forthright public criticism of the West Indies Cricket Board.

Sunday was one of those rare days in Caribbean cricket that will go down as truly unforgettable; the West Indies captured the two ICC World T20 men and women’s titles, (to go along with the T20 Under-19 title won just a few weeks ago).

No matter what explanations are provided by the Minister of State Joseph Harmon over his farcical appointment of Mr Brian Tiwari as a Business Advisor to the government, the damage has already been done.

Politicians live in a different dimension from the rest of us, which is why they are frequently incapable of relating their actions to their words, or of following through on matters of principle.

Yesterday an animated gif and a misjudged prank provoked the ire of thousands of Internet users.

As was made clear in Wednesday’s editorial, President Barack Obama’s visits last week to Cuba and Argentina could be said to have had as their overriding objective the “normalization of relations” between the USA and those two countries.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) notwithstanding, the pervasiveness of drugs in Guyana’s prisons point to a deterioration in the running of penal institutions that will be extremely difficult to remedy.

In what will probably be his last visit to our hemisphere before he leaves the presidency of the United States, President Obama chose two countries with which his country has sought to normalize relations, Cuba and Argentina.

The significance of the recently concluded local government elections is unlikely to become fully apparent for some time yet, even though the fact that after more than two decades we have, at last, been able to pull off a local government poll is in itself an accomplishment.

Now that the APNU+AFC government has begun to release the reports of audits into state corporations and other entities, it is all the more indefensible that a 56-day hiatus in Parliamentary sittings has been set.

One has the impression that the public’s familiarity with the history of this country is not as great as it used to be – all except the period since the Second World War, that is.

Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama has always given the impression of trying to hold true to the principle that one should heed the lessons of history and take actions that are grounded in a deep awareness of history, without allowing oneself to be shackled by history.

Last Wednesday, this newspaper broke a story about APNU+AFC Local Government Election (LGE) candidate Mr Winston Harding, who had faced several accusations and charges of child sexual abuse.

When, at the end of December of 1991, the Soviet Union, or USSR, ceased to exist, and its component parts established with the Russian Federation a Commonwealth of Independent States, there would have been much speculation that its Caribbean partner, Cuba, would have to proceed to consider its own status, given the tight integration that existed between the USSR and the Caribbean communist state.

A matter of mere months before his two terms as President of the United States come to an end, Barack Obama has undertaken the most important foreign policy initiative of his tenure.

Friday’s epochal Local Government Elections (LGE) constitute a clear rejuvenation of the local government system even though the domination by the main parties remains a huge impediment.

Local government elections were finally run off on Friday after a wait of nearly nineteen years.

Increasingly, the Age of Information has become the Age of Surveillance.