Editorial

Attitudes

Last week Minister of Governance Gail Teixeira and the government she represents discovered that the world according to the PPP does not travel well beyond the borders of this land.

Results, not theories

President Irfaan Ali made some interesting comments last week as part of his address to the 38th Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Emerging epidemic

The blatant disregard for the Highway Code and the lack of road courtesy have been the subject of countless Letters to the Editor and several editions of this column over the past few years.

The SOCU ‘scam’

The incident in which two policemen were, earlier this month, reportedly caught up in a scam during which they pretended to be attached to the Force’s Special Organized Crimes Unit (SOCU) and used their cover as a vehicle with which to perpetrate a shocking, bare-faced and seemingly ill thought-out rip-off is part of a familiar pattern of seriously deviant behaviour by some Police Officers.

Irrationality

What Venezuela has done is so preposterous that had it occurred in the old countries of Western Europe, say, it would have provoked an outcry from democratic nations across the continent and beyond.

Angélique Parisot-Potter

In a 2020 TED Talk,  Massy’s former executive vice president of business integrity and group general counsel, Angélique Parisot-Potter explained why it was important to speak up in the workplace no matter what.

Eteringbang security

Last Saturday the Deputy Commander of Region Three along with a number of police ranks led a security sensitisation exercise at 21 Chinese operated supermarkets between Tuschen and Windsor Forest.

Double shift

In December last year, a young, social-media influencer provoked a firestorm when she declared that she would not consider having a child unless her partner committed to paying her a specific sum annually.

Commitment

“Realise that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment” – Tony Robbins If the divorce and separation rates across the globe are anything to go on, then the advice from life coach/ motivational speaker Tony Robbins’ seems to be falling on deaf ears.

A lesson from which Guyana must seek to learn

For all our own crime challenges and the questions that continue to be raised as to whether our law enforcement is up to keeping those challenges in check, it is difficult for us not to look over our shoulders at fellow Caribbean Community member country Trinidad and Tobago where there exists the widespread feeling that the term ‘killing fields’ is altogether appropriate to sum up the contemporary crime situation there.

The toll rises

Just last week in these columns it was lamented how the failure of the prison service and police could have possibly led to the murders of a Saxacalli mother and son, Nellie and David Gomes on March 8.

Babu Jaan

In case it had escaped anyone’s attention, it seems that the annual remembrance ceremony for Dr Cheddi Jagan last week marked the beginning of the election season.

A constituency in search of a party

It was amusing to hear President Ali this week declaring how he and other CARICOM leaders had consulted extensively with Haitian civil society in their plan to stem what is nothing short of a revolution.  

Sand pits and police officers

Last Thursday Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo added the subject of the highway sand pits to the varied list of matters he covers at his weekly encounters with the media.

Unprecedented decline

Every three years, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) administers its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which measures the performance of 15-year-old students in mathematics, science and reading as a means of evaluating the global education system in order to decipher its gains and failings and the areas where more work needs to be done.

Law enforcement: Image is everything

No country can lay serious claim to possessing an effective overall law enforcement regime in circumstances where the ‘reach’ of law enforcement is constrained either by a substantive lack of physical and technical resources necessary for effective delivery, or, on account of a paucity of support from other critical institutions in the country, as a whole.

The Saxacalli murders and the prison escapee

The  recent conferences of the police force and the prison service have been shadowed by horrendous crimes and failures that one hopes there was serious introspection at these gatherings and that the government will tame the hoopla about how well things are going and face the facts.

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