Editorial

On its Facebook page this week, the World Bank announced the publication of a new book which explores a new method of monitoring the quality of urban life.

Not since 1976, when Britain, finding no other means of coping with a severe financial crisis, succumbed to the requirements of the International Monetary Fund, and made deep cuts in public expenditure in exchange for massive assistance, has there been so much controversy about the IMF on the European continent as that surrounding Greece’s capitulation to the Fund last week.

Expectations were high but explanations were scant after President Barack Obama announced the launch of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative at the 5th Summit of the Americas in April last year.

That it has taken nearly six months for a decision to be made on what penalty should be applied to Dr Mahendra Chand for his shocking conduct in relation to the teenager who was tortured at the Leonora Police Station exposes the determination of key decision-makers to protect certain persons and to avoid as far as possible the charge of torture or complicity with it.

Our report on Thursday about the performance of students in Linden made for grim reading.

The results of last Tuesday’s elections in Suriname have provoked predictable reactions from interested parties.

The results of last Tuesday’s elections in Suriname have provoked predictable reactions from interested parties.

Every community, no matter how fractured, has the odd moment of pure consensus, a short interlude where we can all nod our heads in agreement or shake our heads in disbelief.

On May 6, Britons will cast their vote either to retain the incumbent Labour government of Gordon Brown or to replace it after 13 years with David Cameron’s Conservative Party or Nicholas Clegg’s Liberal Democrats.

Having a reliable and stable supply of electricity in Guyana has become a pipe dream.

Last week, in the light of a recent meeting of the grouping known as the BRICs, we looked at the relationship between them and the traditional major powers.

Ingenious couriers continue to attempt to carry cocaine onto foreign aircraft at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timerhi.

PPP/C MP and Presidential Advisor on Empowerment Mr Odinga Lumumba in a letter in the April 19 edition of this newspaper criticized SN for its reportage on his land deal at the back of the Botanical Gardens.

Minister Robeson Benn is rampaging along the reserves with the zeal born of a mission in life.

In ‘Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution,’ the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman imagines the ideal response of the United States government to the challenges of global climate change.

Roads are being paved, water is flowing in the pipes, the tassa drummers and rhythm sections are turning up the volume and the political temperature is rising in Trinidad and Tobago.

According to a report published in today’s edition of this newspaper and based on information provided by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon at his post-cabinet press briefing yesterday, the government has begun to clean up Georgetown.

A scheduled meeting of the BRICs – Brazil, Russia, India, China, the countries recognized by the Western world as at the top of the pile of so-called emerging economies – took place last Thursday, April 15.

Ganja – cannabis sativa – has been embedded in local folklore and celebrated in the shanto ‘Ganjamani’ for generations, from the days of indentured immigration, as a popular narcotic.

If it does yield 154 mw of relatively clean and environmental friendly energy, the Amaila Falls hydro project would indeed provide a platform to catapult the economy by taking care of repressed and developing power demand while at the same time drastically reducing dependence on fossil fuels.