Editorial

The sheer breadth of global public discourse that has been generated by the onset of the coronavirus is staggering!

In the days ahead, GECOM Chair, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh’s integrity and commitment to  free and fair elections will be under granular scrutiny.

“Curiouser and curiouser,” said Alice, as she watched her feet eventually appear so far off they were almost out of sight. 

In December 1915 the British Minister of Munitions, David Lloyd George, described the war in Europe as a “convulsion of Nature … bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial fabric … a cyclone which is tearing up by the roots the ornamental plants of modern society … an earthquake which is upheaving the very rocks of European life.

Locked in our homes as we are for the duration, some of us may be overcome by the urge to embark on a thorough decluttering, and create a clear, orderly space in our living quarters.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s heartfelt praise of that country’s publicly funded National Health Service (NHS) and the two migrant nurses he credited with saving his life went viral on Sunday last.

As President Trump continues to spout daily self delusional rants, from the safety of the White House, of America’s successful handling of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the sad reality is that the actual number of infected persons bears no correlation to his thinly disguised re-election campaign promotions.

Opportunistic crimes are crimes that derive from particular sets of circumstances that, on account of their arrival,   might create windows of opportunity for their perpetration.

“When will you make an end?” an impatient Pope Julius II calls up to Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstasy.

Who could have believed, even last year at this time when the government had already embarked on its elections’ delay strategy, that we would be facing an Easter such as this?

Just over two weeks ago, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for an immediate global ceasefire in the face of another war that can only be won if there is unity: the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate and take us into unknown territory, its tentacles are spreading further and further.

There can now be no denying that like other countries here in the region, the hemisphere and globally, the coronavirus has gotten our attention.

In the quicksand of the twin viruses of COVID-19 and the most naked elections fraud, it is important to recap why five weeks after general elections a President is yet to be sworn in.

After social distancing measures have been ignored by some sectors of the population, the government has introduced a one-month lockdown for the entire country.

Sergei Magnitsky was a lawyer who exposed a massive tax-scam by senior Russian policemen and government officials.

The Covid-19 epidemic has intruded into all departments of life, and education has not been exempt. 

Whenever a country faces a crisis of any kind be it natural disaster, war, or health related, the people likely to suffer the most are the poor and the vulnerable and this is because they have no buffers, financial or otherwise with which to ride out any literal or virtual storm.

How often do we hear colleagues, friends or family members lamenting for more time in the day or, that they were so far adrift on some project or goal that they didn’t think they were ever going to complete it?

As this newspaper has already said in its editorial columns, there was something unsettling about last week’s rebuke by WHO/PAHO local representative Dr.