Editorial

There is enormous public interest in the security reforms announced by Minister Rohee particularly as it relates to the Guyana Police Service.

In a letter to this newspaper on February 1, Mr Enrico Woolford of EMW Communications/Capitol News criticized the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU) for failing to divulge who is operating on which frequency in Guyana.

On the eve of confirmation hearings for John O Brennan − President Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser and proposed CIA Director − the White House instructed the Department of Justice to share classified documents that justify its drone programme with two congressional Intelligence Committees. 

Obviously, when we focused, in last Friday’s editorial, on PJ Patterson’s cry from the heart and forthright warning about the perils of neglecting Caricom, we thought that his argument was well reasoned and very persuasive.

Two days ago, a man who pleaded guilty to beating his wife to death, after which he gruesomely degraded her corpse was sentenced to 22 years in prison, but will serve just 14 years.

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Barbados has eventually called the long-awaited date for general elections in his country and the citizens go to the polls on February 21.

On Tuesday January 22, during an event held to mark the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, US Ambassador Brent Hardt alluded to the success which the American political process has enjoyed in setting aside partisan political rivalries and collectively embracing the national interest.

In a letter in the February 2nd edition of Stabroek News entitled `No parking for taxpayers at new GRA location’,  Ms Nadia Burke related the tribulations she endured while trying to find parking close to the new Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Headquarters on Camp Street.

The news that Mayor Hamilton Green had convened a meeting attended, among others, by some well-known engineers, not to mention Eddy Grant, on how to go about restoring City Hall was certainly uplifting to the spirits of all citizens who have the material heritage of Georgetown at heart.

The hue and cry that has greeted President Obama’s proposals to impose commonsense limits on his country’s multi-billion dollar firearms industry is a reminder of how entrenched the gun lobby has become in American politics.

A précis of PJ Patterson’s “cri de coeur for Caricom,” his speech to the Rotary Club of Georgetown on Monday, would actually make an excellent editorial, without any need for additional comment.

Two days in last week—Tuesday and Wednesday—saw two similar but unrelated incidents of school violence to the extent that blood was spilled and in one case a child is still hospitalised.

For the better part of a half-century after the French ceded independence to most of their colonies in the 1960s, the relationship between the newly sovereign states and the ex-mother country was relatively benign and uneventful.

Over time, North Korea has become highly effective at the craft of drawing periodic international attention to itself.

Now that 10 persons have been confirmed dead in the horrendous January 22nd, 2013 collision of boats in the Mazaruni River, the Ministry of Public Works and the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) have an uphill battle to convince the public that there is effective regulation of riverain traffic.

The general population has no idea what is going on with all these parliamentary motions with no outcome, followed by recourse to the courts and judges’ decisions whose implications the political parties then dispute among themselves.

This is about the time of year when the fallout from the frenzied ritual of Christmas shopping and consumption is evident; our waistlines have expanded and our wallets have shrunk.

Live strong and live the lie – that is what disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong effectively did for more than a decade.

Two men, who had been charged with murdering two women in 2006 and 2007, were on Monday allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter and will be sentenced early next month following the presentation of probation reports to the two judges before whom they appeared.

Over the last year at least, the British government of Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has been faced with calls for decisions on the political character of the United Kingdom.