Editorial

President Barack Obama’s speech on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize has been the subject of as much critical attention as was the award itself.

The Liliendaal Declaration on Crime Prevention published in this newspaper last Sunday is a magnificent statement of intent.

Earlier this year, just after the launching of the first draft of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), the visiting Commonwealth Secretary-General Mr Kamalesh Sharma in an interview with this newspaper had perceptively spoken about the need for countries like Guyana to break out of the monocultural-type economy and to diversify their revenue streams.

On November 4, former Commissioner of Police Floyd McDonald, Assistant Commissioner Seelall Persaud and Head of CANU James Singh went bounding off to Caracas for a meeting of the Guyana-Venezuela Mixed Commission on Drugs.

Tiger Woods used to live in a world of his own.

It is a little ironic that just one week after the Commonwealth Business Forum in Trinidad, at which Caribbean prime ministers, government ministers, the Caricom Secretary General and various captains of industry were attempting to sell the region as a place to do business, the President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Professor Compton Bourne, was painting a less than rosy picture to the annual dinner of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), on December 2.

The Office of Professional Responsibility of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has discharged its mandate in a manner in keeping with its name.

There has been a continuing interest in the political and economic evolution of Cuba since the assumption of the presidency by General Raul Castro in July of 2006.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee’s ‘baptism of fire’ occurred when he was sworn into his present portfolio in September 2006.

On August 11, the families of Jainarine Dinanauth, Henry Gibson and Ricky Jainarine were thrown into unending turmoil and grief after what seemed to be an accident in the Essequibo River.

“…when you finish writing your memoir I would like to read it,” said US Judge Raymond Dearie to David Clarke prior to sentencing him.

Here are two scenarios which will play out with small variations a thousand times across the country today.

Guyana is not, strictly speaking, a banana republic. Yes, we have had our fair share of authoritarian rule, electoral fraud, plantation economics and endemic corruption, but we have been spared the anarchy, bloodshed and political instability of coups d’état and revolutionary movements.

One in every ten persons in the world, according to statistics, has a disability.

It would not be an overstatement to say that in the view of the governments of these West Indian islands, the use of referenda or special majorities of their parliaments required to change particular articles of their countries’ constitutions, is faced with trepidation.

Hardly a month goes by that there is not some fresh outrage in the Guyana Police Force to appal the public.

It is unsurprising that the 2009 Transparency International report was a mirror image of the 2008 version.

At his annual press briefing last year, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee told the media that road fatalities for 2008 had declined dramatically in comparison with the previous year – in fact, by an extraordinary 54.6%.

This newspaper reported yesterday that a woman of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice is to appear in court next week charged with abusing the eight-year-old son of her deceased brother.

Juan Bautista Alberdi, the 19th century Argentine liberal intellectual, based a fair bit of his thinking on the political and economic development of Argentina on the dictum, “to govern is to populate.”