Editorial

Addressing newly-commissioned military officers last week, President Bharrat Jagdeo contended correctly that, if the security challenges currently facing Guyana were not adequately addressed, they can compound the difficulties related to the economic challenges which need to be addressed.

It was just another Sunday in the South American cocaine belt when the Guyana Defence Force discovered another illegal airstrip by chance.

At a recent press freedom seminar in Jamaica, that country’s Finance Minister, Mr Audley Shaw sketched a startling picture of how serious the corruption problem in the country was.

The workings of the University of Guyana are shrouded in mystery as far as outsiders are concerned, and even the periodic flashes of publicity do little to illuminate how the institution is administered.

Taken at face value, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Incorporated’s Energy Conservation Cam-paign launched last week is an admirable step in the right direction.

Richard L Armitage was US Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005 under President George W Bush.

With the Iowa caucus barely a fortnight away, the current front-runners in this year’s US presidential campaigns make an unlikely pair.

President Bharrat Jagdeo set the intellectual tone for the administration’s present posture on piracy in the East Berbice-Corentyne Region.

Mr Abdul Kadir’s arrest earlier this year heightened widespread dread of terror attacks against targets in the western world by Islamic extremists.

Early on in his `92 administration President Cheddi Jagan expressed exasperation at the situation at the then Guyana Electricity Corporation (GEC).

The world was somewhat surprised – and perhaps even the Venezuelan opposition was too – when President Hugo Ch

At an interaction with the media on Monday last, President Bharrat Jagdeo hedged when asked whether the reports that he was planning a Cabinet reshuffle were true.

A centuries-old Italian proverb says that “When a fish rots, it starts from its head.”

One of the most widely known articles of the United States’ Army Uniform Code of Military Justice states that “Any commissioned officer, cadet, or midshipman who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”

A 16-year-old, an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old are dead. Having graduated, reports say, from being lookouts for bandits, they took up arms and went on the attack in Non Pariel.

Minister of Local Government, Mr Kellawan Lall has declined several invitations from this newspaper to speak about what he is alleged to have done three Sundays ago at a rum shop at Vryheid’s Lust on the East Coast.

The year 2007 is not ending very well for President Jagdeo.

In the aftermath of a series of serious security incidents, the cabinet conducted a weekend ‘outreach’ campaign on 16-17 November on the Corentyne coast.

Compared with the tension that exists in Muslim communities across Europe, America’s Muslims are a more contented lot.

The novelist Martin Amis recently asked a British audience to raise their hands if they felt ‘morally superior to the Taliban’.