Commissioner of Police Henry Greene, at least twice every year at the Guyana Police Force’s Annual Officers’ Conference in February or March and the Force’s Anniversary Awards Ceremony in July, would choose to disclose a few choice statistics on crime to the public.
President Jagdeo’s iteration of plans to equip poorer households with a laptop will no doubt be subject to intense dissection by critics and supporters alike.
Emancipation is the great watershed in Guyanese history, when those who were in bondage were afforded some official space within the society to pursue goals of their own choosing for the first time in two hundred years.
Think, for a minute, about the room you are in. Is it lit by natural light or electric light?
Dennis Pantin, whose death on July 13, 2010, at the relatively young age of 61, was reported in this paper, has been deeply mourned across the Caribbean region.
What do the numbers 70, 600 and 1,000 have in common?
Forty-three years ago this month, in 1967, the island of Anguilla voted in a referendum in which its leaders sought to confirm their secession two years before, from the then British colony of St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, re-baptised as an Associated State of the United Kingdom.
Had the public security situation throughout the country not been so dreadful, the public might not have realised just how much time the Minister of Home Affairs spends on issues which have little to do with everyday violent crimes.
Amid the daily diet of crime, unprecedented violence against women and children, the divisive and bitter politics that suffuses every part of life and the increasingly oppressive hands of the government and the opaqueness of its business, it is easy to forget that positive things are also happening.
Considering that as far as the public was concerned Venezuela has not been on the foreign policy radar for so long, last Wednesday’s visit by President Bharrat Jagdeo to Caracas came as something of a surprise.
The story of Shirley Sherrod, a US Department of Agriculture official recently fired for allegedly making racist remarks in a speech to the NAACP, is a cautionary tale about the fragility of truth in a digital age.
It is 65 years since the end of the Second World War.
Yesterday, the world’s largest social networking hub Facebook announced that it had reached its 500 millionth member.
Responding to much expression, through the media, of public concern about the direction of Caricom, the Heads of Government once again committed themselves, at their recent 37th Meeting, to seeking to find a more appropriate form of governance than presently exists.
All eyes were on Trinidad and Tobago’s new Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bisessar at the annual meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community earlier this month in Jamaica.
The unnerving ease with which the government recently announced that the once-grand old New Amsterdam Hospital will be torn down should cause sleepless nights for those who have had a life-long affiliation with the Bourda Cricket Ground and have nurtured undying memories of tense test match finishes and absorbing draws there.
So finally we have the confession from the horse’s mouth. The citizenry has known the truth all along, of course; but to secure an unforced admission from the government was something which no one could have anticipated.
In 1997 the literary critic Hugh Kenner gave a fascinating series of lectures on the ways that new thoughts circulate in a culture.
It would have been a sporting travesty of the highest order if Holland had snatched the FIFA World Cup from Spain in last Sunday’s emotional and pulsating, albeit ugly, final.
Take a walk on the wild side today and venture into the foul streets of this city.
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