Editorial

Egypt continues to provide Washington with sobering lessons in the frailties of US foreign policy, a policy that remains rooted in an archaic world view that perceives America’s vital interests around the globe as surpassing in their importance even the popular will of other nations and peoples.

Just days into his administration and with much political uncertainty around, President Ramotar’s government will have to urgently address the concerns expressed by the European Union about the need for swifter work on sea defence projects failing which grant funds can be at risk.

Commissioner Henry Greene’s less than toned figure suggests a man who has ignored his health for a long time.

The astrophysicist and philosopher Sir Arthur Eddington was once congratulated on being one of just three people who truly understood Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Most people are familiar with the definition of politics as the art of the possible.

Some time during the morning of Monday this week, Rawletta Onika Greaves of Scotsburg Corriverton went to visit her father’s aunt, a regular practice of hers, according to reports, and ostensibly her mentally-ill father as well, since he resided at his aunt’s home.

A lot of eyes will have been turned towards the European Union over the last few weeks, and particularly last week, as its member governments met to seek to try and bring some closure, at the level of policy agreement, to the issue of coping with what is now called the Eurozone crisis.

The shabby image of the Guyana Police Force is, arguably, its single biggest problem.

Last week protesters from APNU demonstrated outside of the premises of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr Steve Surujbally and Chief Election Officer, Mr Gocool Boodoo.

Suspicion is the curse of this country. There are historical reasons for it, of course, which hardly need any elaboration, but in terms of its consequences it produces all kinds of irrationalities.

As the UN Climate Change talks in South Africa ended, one country emerged as an unexpected leader in the transition to green technology – the People’s Republic of China.

President Donald Ramotar would be forgiven for thinking that his term at the head of a minority government has not got off to the most auspicious of beginnings, with some worrying signs in the immediate aftermath of the elections.

A president chooses his own cabinet, or at least he should.

Coinciding closely with the elections in Guyana and just before the forthcoming ones in Jamaica on December 29, general elections were concluded in St Lucia on November 28, with the opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) displacing the former Prime Minister Sir John Compton’s United Workers Party (UWP) with an 11-6 majority in the country’s House of Assembly.

Each time that national and regional elections are held in Guyana the spotlight falls on the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

No matter the depth and breadth of recrimination among the parties that preceded the November 28, 2011 general election, its sobering results offer the rudiments for a transformation of the present adversarial and enervating political environment.

The people have spoken. But as always in these circumstances why they said what they said is not necessarily a subject on which there is unanimity.

At first glance the 149-day lockout that has derailed this year’s NBA season seems remote from the concerns of the wider world.

At a time when cynicism about the motives of politicians in general abounds in Guyana, it would perhaps come as no surprise that the credibility of politicians in other parts of the region is also being seriously questioned.

Today is World AIDS Day around the world and it is being commemorated under the theme ‘Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections.