Editorial

As the Eurozone crisis has continued, an interesting development has been the interest of the so-called emerging economic powers of what has hitherto been called the Third World in a positive outcome, and hints of a willingness to help achieve that, given appropriate conditions.

It took exactly seven months, from his first announcement on April 23 that he would step down, to the eventual signing of the agreement on November 23, for Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh to finally bring his thirty three-year grip on power – first, as President of the then North Yemen since 1978 and from 1991 as President of a unified Yemen – to an end.

Today, we repeat some of the appeals we had made in our August 28, 2006 polling day editorial.

There was a curious development on Thursday, when the cabinet announced that tomorrow would be a public holiday.

Embattled protests at Tahrir Square and, despite severe repression, tenacious opposition movements in Yemen and Syria indicate that the Arab Spring is far from over.

November 18 marked the 33rd anniversary of the Jonestown murder-suicide that took the lives of some 909 Americans, members of the People’s Temple of Jim Jones, at their sanctuary near Port Kaituma.

Getting into central Georgetown in daylight hours can tax the nerves of even someone with a steel will.

Hopes in the wider world that Egypt would have settled down, and be on the way to settling a new constitutional system after the overthrow last February of President Mubarak’s quasi-military regime, have been dashed by the widespread rioting commencing last week.

Rawle Blackman died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation on Sunday November 13 after reportedly sustaining serious head injuries in circumstances which, up until now, appear unclear.

Whenever convenient, the PPP/C never fails to invoke the imagery of the PNC’s flag fluttering over the High Court during the Burnham years.

An inspiring campaign this is certainly not, although it is still most interesting.

In 1973 BBC radio broadcast ten conversations between the polymath Jacob Bronowski and his colleague George Steedman.

Our syndicated columnist, the Latin American specialist, Andrés Oppenheimer, opined on Sunday that the Organization of American States (OAS) electoral observation mission in Nicaragua “made a bad mistake by not offering a more comprehensive view in its first statements about the Nicaraguan election” held on November 6 last.

The Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR) of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) meets today, marking its fifth year of operations and bringing together key players and partner institutions in the field of remittances and migration from around the world.

It seems that the real shock that has hit the larger countries of the globe now facing economic turmoil, is the continuing nature of the economic crisis that came on in December 2007.

There was much hype and high-spiritedness inside the University of Guyana’s George Walcott Lecture Theatre on Thursday.

For various reasons governments in this part of the world tend to escape rigorous scrutiny of the judiciousness of their expenditure on behalf of the public.

If there is one thing this election season has demonstrated, it is that we desperately need some kind of legislative reform to ensure that each party has equal opportunity during the campaign to make its case to voters and that none of them enjoys an insuperable built-in advantage to which the others do not have access.

In mid-September, one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels sent a warning to the people of Nuevo Laredo.

Common sense has triumphed over political correctness and bureaucracy at the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), with that much maligned body reversing its decision to ban the England football team from wearing poppies embroidered on their shirts in their friendly match against Spain tomorrow, and instead allowing them to wear a poppy on black armbands.