Editorial

As Mashramani recedes and carnival season unfurls in the Caribbean, few who see the floats can fail to admire our capacity for creativity and ingenuity.

We do not feel the need to explain what might appear as an editorial preoccupation with events in Ukraine.

During the course of last week the Ministry of Education issued a public statement to the effect that it would shortly be hosting consultations on “professional standards for teachers.”

At a press conference on February 17, 2014, PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee said that the government-nominated members of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) were doubtful about the commission’s readiness to hold local government elections.

On Republic night around 9 pm the Minister of Finance was involved in an accident. 

In mid-June 2013, a search engine that guarantees its users privacy noticed a sudden influx of 500,000 new queries.

At the time of writing, another student demonstration was due to take place in Caracas yesterday, to demand, among other things, the freeing of the hundreds of protesters detained by the authorities and justice for the more than 500 wounded in the recent street clashes.

Water, or rather the provision of water which is of a consumable quality without producing deleterious effects, has become a million-dollar business in this country.

Hard on the heels of our editorial last week on Russia and the West has been the culmination of the incipient, uprising centred particularly in Kiev, against Ukraine President Yanukovitch, his swift departure from the capital as he sensed the rising power of his opponents, and then the establishment of a new temporary ruling regime in the country.

A few weeks ago the Kaieteur News published an article based on an interview with Ms.

Justice Sukul’s disbarment by the Bar of England and Wales earlier this month and his subsequent resignation have raised important questions here about the functioning of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) which the public has every right to pose.

The usual crowds, one imagines, will be lining the parade route today to watch the floats. 

A fortnight ago, on the opening day of the Winter Olympics, Moscow police arrested several LGBT activists for waving rainbow flags while they sang the Russian national anthem in Red Square.

Following our Foreign Ministry’s statement, last Friday, on the situation in Venezuela, on which we have already commented (February 16), there have been several statements by other nations and organizations.

With just 50 days completed for this year so far, at least 13 people have died as a result of traffic accidents on the country’s roadways with a similar number injured.

Much anxiety seemed to pervade comment in the major countries of the Western world as Russia approached the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Opposition to President Nicolás Maduro’s administration in Venezuela has escalated into sustained street violence and, in the past week or so, loss of life. 

The World Justice Project which aims to strengthen the rule of law for the development of communities of opportunity and equity identifies four universal principles to be upheld.

On Friday evening the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing concern over the political unrest in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and regret at the loss of life.

BBC footage of the flooded Thames valley shows hundreds of houses underwater, marooned by another bout of extreme weather.