Editorial

The Islamic Republic of Iran rests on a contradictory constitutional foundation.

A few years ago, the photo editor of Vanity Fair magazine wrote a remarkable book about the photographic record of the September 11 attacks.

Regardless of which team wins the ICC World Twenty20 this weekend, the tournament has undoubtedly been a great success, with its exciting brand of cricket, huge global television audiences and grounds packed with fans of all nationalities, ages and genders, clearly having fun – except, of course, when their team is on the losing end.

Violent crime is mostly heinous. How else can one describe a scenario where persons set out to batter, murder, rape or terrorise other persons because they are stronger, more powerful or believe they can get away with it.

A barrage of comment by both the political leadership of the region, and commentators in the press, suggests a certain concern about the Caribbean Community’s direction.

The recent arraignment of ex-policeman Lloyd Roberts and the issuance of a wanted bulletin for another ex-policeman− Sean Belfield, called “Backup” − both in connection with the murder of the father and son whose bodies were found in the Pomeroon River in March are the latest links in a long chain of allegations of felonies involving serving and former policemen.

No doubt nonplussed by the government’s endless shilly-shallying on the delayed and much needed 3 million pounds sterling programme of security assistance to Guyana, the UK’s top diplomat here, Mr Fraser Wheeler made it clear to the media on May 25 that he was unhappy with the unnecessary hurdles that were being thrown up by bureaucrats.

The ever circuitous Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr Roger Luncheon, perambulated his way around the question of an alleged link between the Government of Guyana and drug-trafficker Roger Khan in his customary fashion the week before last.

Despite increasing efforts by the US and Mexican governments to coordinate their ‘war’ on Mexico’s drug cartels, drug-related violence along the border seems to be escalating inexorably.

There has hardly been a period over the past thirty-odd years when this country has not been plagued by problems associated with the inability of the local power company to provide a reliable supply of electricity.

As expected, the Organization of American States General Assembly in Honduras last week was dominated by wrangling over repealing the 1962 suspension of Cuba from the OAS.

Empty belly life! Rotten smelly life! Full of sorrow life! No tomorrow life!

When Tony Blair resigned from office in June 2007, after ten years as British Prime Minister, he had set a record as being the longest-serving British Labour Party prime minister.

Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff Commodore Gary Best has been busy sermonising cadets and recruits on training courses about military misbehaviour.

Today’s national consultation on a draft low carbon development strategy entitled `Transforming Guyana’s economy while combating climate change’ is exceedingly important and all stakeholders – particularly those in forestry – and those who would aspire to govern the country should treat it with the importance it deserves.

There was a time when West Indians in considerable numbers came to take advantage of economic opportunities in Guyana, because it was hard to make a living in their own small islands.

President Obama’s candid and reasonable speech in Cairo has generally been taken as a sign that American foreign policy in the Middle East may finally be coming of age.

The sense of disappointment, even frustration over the slow pace at which the hoped-for creation of a strong regional agribusiness sector is proceeding was evident in the presentations at last week’s regional agribusiness forum by Caricom Secretary General Edwin Carrington, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud and, at the end of the two-day forum, by President Bharrat Jagdeo.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is probably not enjoying the job he openly craved while serving as Tony Blair’s Chancellor for so long.

A recently completed study has knocked a hole in the theory that most people have generally accepted as a given – that boys are always better at maths than girls, particularly at the higher levels, and that there was a biological reason for this.