While there is vague talk about heritage tourism or historical tourism to complement the various eco-tourism development plans, the government has never really put effort into exploring how our heritage could earn the country foreign exchange, let alone committed funds to such a project.
The Suriname government is working hard to polish the international image of its national army.
Suriname’s seizing of a sugar transport boat just off the Skeldon wharf earlier this week underlines the fractious state of border relations between the two Caricom states.
Earlier last month Minister of Education Shaik Baksh announced that his ministry would prohibit the holding of ‘extra lessons’ on public school premises once the payment of money was involved.
It is said that people can be divided into two types: those who want to be something; and those who want to do something.
No, this isn’t about a Hollywood B-movie or the latest Harry Potter sequel.
As has often been the case in recent times, the 2008 Nobel prizes for Peace, Economics and Literature seem designed to send a message to Washington.
We suggested last week, in our editorial on “The EPA and Regional Undercurrents” that the manner in which the discussion on the outcome of the EPA negotiations with Europe had been conducted among governments, could well lead the onlooker to believe that there is a great divide among them on the issue of the appropriate path to economic growth and development and the role of ex ternal assistance in it.
The hijacking of four civilian, passenger aircraft in order to carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks upon the United States of America on September 11th 2001 has been implanted indelibly in world opinion.
The unilateral declaration of a deadlock in the local government reform task force by former government minister and longstanding PPP activist Mr Clinton Collymore has not come as a surprise.
A notice board outside the building earmarked to accommodate Guyana’s National Archives in Homestretch Avenue reads: “Walter Rodney Archives.”
“Women do two-thirds of the world’s work for five percent of the income.
Even as the US presidential and vice-presidential candidates manoeuvre to score points off each other on the campaign trail and in their so-called debates, the hosts of America’s comedic, late night shows are sparring with each other to come up with the best jokes about Messrs McCain, Obama and Biden, and of course, every comedy writer’s dream, Sarah Palin.
Wall Street’s sudden collapse and the prospect of a global recession have now overshadowed every other issue in this year’s US elections.
Over the past months, particularly during the period in which CARICOM’s negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement(EPA) have been coming to a conclusion, there have been two undercurrents running through regional relations which give pause for thought.
In one of the most egregious examples of asymmetrical warfare in modern times, the United States of America, the world’s most powerful state, invaded Grenada, one of the world’s weakest mini-states, almost exactly twenty-five years ago on Tuesday 25 October 1983.
As hard as the PPP/C government and its security apparatus have tried to pretend that drug trafficking and money laundering are being attacked frontally this fiction is being exposed week by week in the courts of New York.
Some of the problems of this society would be alleviated if those who sat in government spent more time discussing their plans with various interested groups before steamrolling ahead implementing decisions that the citizenry knows little or nothing about.
The deliberate placing of the substance melamine in baby formula and milk products, quite possibly, ranks right up there among the most reprehensible acts known to be committed against humans by humans.
Like Mr Christopher Ram in his letter of September 29, 2008, regarding Prime Minister Samuel Hinds’s letter of September 26, we were rather surprised by Mr Hinds’s repeated references to himself in the third person as “Prime Minister,” mostly without even the use of the definite article.
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