Editorial

Parliament is at the centre of our democracy, or at least, that is the theory.

Already creating havoc across the world, continuously rising sea levels owing to climate change are projected to expand coastal flooding over the next two decades, negatively affecting human and economic development.

On New Year’s Day Britain’s television viewers were presented with the first episode of a new television drama series, “Mr Bates vs the Post Office” on the Independent Television network (ITV).

One of the Caribbean Community’s foremost current collective preoccupation, its ongoing response to what has been determined to be a food security crisis, has returned to the fore in the light of information that has surfaced in the media regarding the launch of an intra-regional ferry service which, in the words of Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday at PPP headquarters at Freedom House, party General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo made the most unequivocal statement thus far about the government’s intended use of facial recognition technology.

The visit of US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel P.

Four middle aged men are sitting around a coffee table strewn with papers.

The Public Accounts Committee is back in the news again, this time accompanied by a liberal dose of nonsense-speak from Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill.

On Sunday, after hinting recently that such a project was in the pipeline, President Irfaan Ali turned the sod for the construction of the latest New Amsterdam General Hospital.

Last Friday, 5th January, the International Cricket Conference (ICC) revealed the fixture list for this year’s highly anticipated T20 World Cup.

At his year-end press conference Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, disclosed that the planned Barbados/Guyana Food Terminal, supposedly a critical cog in the wheel of regional food security is, after more than a year, still awaiting approval from the Town and Country Planning of Barbados and that the project will see development work this year.

The good news is that the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has finally issued  a decision on a complaint before it, almost 18 months after it was constituted.

The main interlocutor at Argyle, Prime Minister of St Vincent Ralph Gonsalves, found himself in an embarrassing situation last week when an image of him standing behind a papier mâché map showing Essequibo as part of Venezuela appeared on social media.

What was clear from the Ministry of Public Works’ end of year press conference is that there are a number of infrastructure projects that are suffering serious delays.

The public has tended to see prisons primarily as places of retributive justice and as such they consider inmates should find the incarceration experience both disagreeable and austere.

In many ways, it’s really nothing more than the nature of the beast.

At the dawn of a new year most people will either ponder setting one or two ambitious goals (which are, in most cases, forgotten or abandoned by mid-February), and, or, do an in-depth personal review of their /performances in the past year.

Each week for most of 2023, this newspaper canvassed 10 people in all parts of the country on how they were faring with the cost of living. 

If we all thought the Argyle Declaration would allow us to usher in the New Year in  traditional fashion without interruption from President Nicolás Maduro, we were mistaken. 

‘Tis the season of resolutions. For many who have been through this for decades it is a familiar exercise (literally) in annual self delusion as we slip on our sneakers and head out for a New Year jog.