Editorial

While there is no country on the continent which can afford not to denounce Colombia’s violation of Ecuador’s territory in pursuit of FARC’s number two man, Ra

On Wednesday last, the Goldman Sachs Group, Incorporated, launched a US$100 million five-year global initiative to provide 10,000 underprivileged women – predominantly in developing and emerging markets – with a business and management education.

On Saturday, 1st March, Colombian troops attacked guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) across the border with Ecuador and succeeded in killing the FARC number two, Ra

A recent report by the US-based Pew Center on the States estimates that more than one percent of America’s adult population is currently in prison.

Indications in the press this week that the Heads of Government will consider the issue of the relationship between the Caricom Secretariat and the Caricom Regional Negotiating Machinery, serve to remind us that since the deliberations and decisions of the Heads at their last Conference in July last year, nothing further has been heard on implementation of measures agreed for Caricom’s reorganization, based on the Report of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Governance, Managing Mature Regionalism.

When he first addressed the United Nations General Assembly after the independence of Barba-dos, Prime Minister Errol Barrow indicated his recognition that the world’s powers tended to see small states as irritants.

Stalling the meaningful implementation of the National Drug Strategy Master Plan and skimping on cash for the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit while serenading the public with promises to be “tough on drug lords” have helped the administration to win for itself another adverse annual report for under-performance in its so-called war on illegal narcotics.

Stalling the meaningful implementation of the National Drug Strategy Master Plan and skimping on cash for the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit while serenading the public with promises to be “tough on drug lords” have helped the administration to win for itself another adverse annual report for under-performance in its so-called war on illegal narcotics.

Friday’s rebuke by the US of Guyana’s drug efforts will be hard for this government to lightly dismiss especially in the backdrop of the current UK-funded security sector reform programme which identifies the narcotics trade as a risk factor.

In our edition last Tuesday we carried a report saying that the photos of six men wanted by the police in connection with the Lusignan and Bartica killings had not been released by the police force to Stabroek News despite the fact that they had been carried in the February 23 edition of the Guyana Chronicle, as well as in the Kaieteur News the following day.

On Monday last, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a multi-year global campaign bringing together the United Nations, governments and civil society to try to end violence against women, calling it an issue that “cannot wait.”

A news item in the January 21 edition of Stabroek News referred to the damage that has been done and continues to be done to the seawall embankment along the Rupert Craig Highway by the large, unregulated Sunday gatherings.

Even though we live on the periphery of a rain forest, few Guyanese appreciate the economic potential of our hinterland.

The disturbingly distinctive characteristic of criminal violence in this country over the past six years has been the high incidence of massacres, or mass murders.

The administration’s agreement to establish a special select committee on the Disciplined Forces Commission Report in the National Assembly must have been an embarrassing admission of its sloth and weakness.

President Jagdeo’s declaration on Tuesday at Bartica that the same gang of men was responsible for the Lusignan massacre on January 26 and the February 17 slaughter in the township raises a troubling dilemma which neatly crystallizes the law and order crisis facing the country.

In the aftermath of the Lusignan killings, nothing which those elected to protect us had to say seemed to have much relevance to the issue.

What is a life worth, UNICEF asks in its State of the World’s Children 2008 report titled ‘Child Survival’ and released last month.

A couple of weeks ago, in South Korea, the Namdaemun Gate, a 600-year-old building in Seoul, was destroyed in a fire started by an arsonist.

It was very telling that on St Valentine’s Day, when love was supposedly in the air there was none in the National Assembly.