Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan would probably be the first to concede that his assignment as the United Nations and Arab League Peace Envoy to Syria which he undertook in February this year was always likely to be a tough diplomatic task and that the chances of failure were high.
President Ramotar’s admonition to contractors that penalty clauses in their contracts and blacklisting would be imposed if they produce substandard work is an important statement even if only to evaluate the intent and seriousness of the government.
The Minister of Local Government is a very busy man. There he sits, ensconced behind his capacious official desk positively snowed under by a blizzard of petitions from all over the country (especially opposition areas), complaining about non-functioning Neighbourhood Democratic Councils.
With track and field just getting underway, many spectators may feel that the best is yet to come at the London Olympics, but the first week of these games has already produced enough competitive drama to silence rumours that the city was not ready for an event of this magnitude.
No one is in any doubt that the Private Sector Commission (PSC) has a vested interest in the outcome of the Linden talks which took place on Tuesday.
There are two particularly smart looking schools on the West Coast Demerara – one at Greenwich Park and one at Leonora; smart looking but not smartly built.
As seems to have become almost normal now, the approach of the American elections has produced a necessity for candidates to demonstrate their loyalty to the cause of Israel in the continuing encounters with which that country is faced, or has involved itself, in the Middle East.
Robert Corbin’s successor as Leader of the People’s National Congress/Reform (PNCR) is about to embark on an assignment that will either make or break his political career.
That President Ramotar was unable to travel to Linden on Saturday as planned is another sign of how unsure the administration is of itself and incapable when it comes to handling crises.
While the drama of Linden has been commanding national attention, other things have been happening under the radar, so to speak.
Historians of the Olympics credit much of their modern success to the glamour of the 1908 games, in London.
The much-anticipated 30th Olympiad begins today in London and the British, at least, are eagerly awaiting the revelation of who will be afforded the honour of lighting the Olympic Flame to signal the official commencement of the Games.
On Monday when the Demerara Harbour Bridge failed, this newspaper interviewed two vendors trapped on the East Bank Demerara with perishable items which they were taking to the West Demerara and East Bank Essequibo to sell.
The decision of the financial ratings agency Standards and Poors (S&P) to downgrade its ratings on the Barbados government’s potential ability to service its foreign bond repayments, seems to have come as a shock to both the government and the highest technocratic levels of public sector financial management.
Analysts of political events inside the highly secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) usually preface their offerings by conceding that they include healthy measures of speculation, even hearsay.
News that the investigation into the macabre killing of eight men at Lindo Creek in 2008 has come to an end is unlikely to convince members of the public that real answers will be forthcoming.
Last week, demonstrators were on the streets of the major cities of Spain in their hundreds of thousands.
Yet again the United States is reflecting on its persistent problems with gun violence following a mass shooting at a suburban movie theatre near Denver, Colorado.
After a period of relatively little comment regionally on the changing of the guard in Mexico’s July 1 general elections, two of our editorials last week focused on the implications of the return to office of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), for that country, its neighbours and the Caribbean, not only in political and economic terms but also with respect to the long-running drugs war that has claimed more than 50,000 lives.
Patchwork approaches to fixing what goes wrong in this country seem to be the order of the day.
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