Editorial

In recent weeks, Caribbean governments, and indeed governments in many developing countries, must have been dreading what has happened in Haiti.

The Caribbean Community held yet another heads of government conference to consider a collective response to the crime crisis.

There is no disagreement that the threat uttered against President Jagdeo on a live call-in programme on CNS Channel Six on February 21 was criminal, reprehensible and inexcusable.

China clearly didn’t anticipate the Olympic torch fiasco, and neither, it seems, did the International Olympic Committee.

On Wednesday evening last, Guyanese who were of a mind to, could have tuned in to a local television channel to watch, along with millions around the world, the charity show ‘Idol Gives Back’ on Fox.

So, our distinguished Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rudy Insanally, has finally called it a day.

In November 2005, during a trip to Panama, President Bush told reporters that the United States faced “an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again.”

The post-election circumstances in Zimbabwe should not be entirely surprising. It was likely that President Robert Mugabe would seek to resist moving out of office in the event of defeat.

Are criminal gangs politically motivated? Is there one criminal gang or many?

The walk-out of the opposition from Parliament on March 27 was an ominous augury for members of the public who were looking to the assembly for decisive and cohesive steps to address crime.

It is fairly well accepted that dysfunctional families have a negative impact on the capacity of children to learn.

It is almost a no-brainer that the poorest people would be the most malnourished.

A spectre is haunting the world of newspapers — the spectre of the blogosphere.

The would-be debate that degenerated into a débâcle in the National Assembly last week was preventable but not entirely unpredictable.

The fifth anniversary of the United States-led intervention in Iraq has coincided with an uprising of the Mahdist forces particularly in Basra, spreading to other zones.

Five years and 4,000 US deaths into the Iraq war, it is no longer clear what a reasonable exit strategy might be.

On May 27, 2005, Customs House was rocked by a $10.3M robbery.

One of the best known sound archives in the world is that belonging to the BBC.

The gigantic waves that pounded part of the lower East Coast last week were a sight to behold.

Arthur C. Clarke, the pioneering science-fiction author who died last week, once formulated three ironic laws of ‘prediction’, the last of which read: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”