Mr Arif Ali, a Guyanese who migrated to the United Kingdom more than half a century ago and who, during that time, has become the most successful publisher of Caribbean origin in Europe, has openly made the Government of Guyana an interesting proposal.
In his recently published book The new paradigm for financial markets – the credit crisis of 2008 and what it means the billionaire speculator, former hedge-fund manager and philanthropist George Soros paints an exceedingly grim picture of the state of the financial system today, primarily in America but also in other parts of the developed world.
The statement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling last week that the British economy is likely to go through its worst experience for sixty years, will probably have come as a shock to many within the country as well as to others in the international community.
Admitting to difficulties in the implementation of the community action component of the proposed Citizens’ Security Programme, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee last month accused the Inter-American Development Bank of attempting to define the realties in Guyana.
When the seeds of Carifesta were first sowed several years before its grand inauguration in George-town in 1972, the objective was really to provide an expansive, unlimiting space within which artists of excellence from all parts and representing a multitude of art forms could exhibit their work, dialogue with each other and distil more and more of what `Caribbean-ness’ is.
A huge collective sigh of relief reverberated around the land when the police revealed that Rondell Rawlins was no more.
When the prices of food and oil on the world market eventually peak, and there is no indication that this will happen any time soon, there will be millions more poverty-stricken people, particularly in developing countries – not that this is totally unexpected.
The Olympics are finally over and for many sports fans life is getting back to normal.
When the Director General of the Caribbean Regional Economic Machinery (CRNM) and his team concluded their negotiations with the European Commission, he no doubt felt a sense of relief that this long drawn out and complex discussion had come to an end, and that Cariforum governments could compliment themselves on the results.
The Lost Land of the Jaguar, a three-part BBC documentary broadcast earlier this month, should be required viewing for any Guyanese who have not yet visited the interior.
Come September, one year would have elapsed since the start of a spate of allegations of torture against the Guyana Defence Force, Guyana Police Force and Guyana Prison Service.
The very painstaking work entailed by the house-to-house registration exercise has revealed the number of persons who were unable to register because they didn’t have the all-important birth certificate in their possession.
A letter from Mr Louis Holder in our edition on Friday criticized the issuing of free tickets for Carifesta events.
Over the past several weeks, there has been a spring cleaning fervour unmatched by anything anyone in this country has seen over the past two or three decades.
Last week Thursday, Prime Minister Patrick Manning of Trinidad and Tobago used the opportunity of an official visit by the new Prime Minister of Grenada, Tillman Thomas, to invite the leaders of St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines to join them for discussions on deeper integration among those four countries.
Up until now the Four Year Strategic and Operational Plan ‘rolled out’ by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) last Wednesday is exactly what it says it is – a Plan, an ambitious and forward-looking Plan but a Plan, nonetheless; a work in progress.
The Ministers of Culture and Health should hang their heads in shame.
Hints of pre-1989 times have characterized the international atmosphere over the last week, as the United States fully responded to Russia’s intervention into South Ossetia and Abkhazia, populated by Russian citizens and persons of non-Georgian descent, and then into wider zones surrounding those areas.
Civil society must not allow the serious debate on crime to be diluted by anecdote or to degenerate into sterile political badinage.
Government’s recent presentation of a flurry of bills on security and law and order has quite properly raised concerns.
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