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By Stabroek staff | Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
A few days ago Bernard Madoff, a 71 year-old securities-fund manager and former chairman of the Nasdaq, was sentenced to 150 years in prison for …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
In our most recent editorial on Caricom, ‘Structures of unity,’ we lamented the failure of heads to establish a commission to further the integration process, …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 5 Comments
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there/They have to take you in,” American poet Robert Frost writes in his poem The …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
The response of the countries of the hemisphere has been swift, and decisively negative, to the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales by the military, …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
President Bharrat Jagdeo marked last Friday, June 26 − which was observed as ‘International Day against Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking’ − by declaring, “I …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, June 29, 2009 | 9 Comments
With each passing day, the questions about whether this administration is committed to transparency and accountability grow more sonorous and with good reason. At his …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
As the Caricom heads gather in Georgetown for their annual ritual, they do so in circumstances where three of them have committed themselves to integration …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, June 27, 2009 | 5 Comments
When Michael Jackson’s death was confirmed on Thursday afternoon, MTV gave over its scheduled programming to a marathon retrospective of the music videos which had …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
Before Caricom, there was the Caribbean Free Trade Area (Carifta); before Carifta there was the West Indies Federation; before the Federation, there was the University …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 5 Comments
The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) recently became the latest government agency to sign a ‘smoke-free policy declaration,’ which means that no smoking will be allowed …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
The fascination which politics in Iran has held for the Western powers for over fifty years since the overthrow of the nationalist leader Mossadeq in …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments
The Weekend Mirror newspaper on Sunday, June 14, 2009 published an article titled ‘Tenure of Police Commissioner Extended,’ stating “The PPP-Civic government has announced that …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, June 22, 2009 | 20 Comments
Since the unveiling of the new Barbadian policy on undocumented Caricom citizens which was styled as an “amnesty” but is anything but that, there have …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, June 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Islamic Republic of Iran rests on a contradictory constitutional foundation. On the one hand, until possibly this year, it has held what have always …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, June 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
A few years ago, the photo editor of Vanity Fair magazine wrote a remarkable book about the photographic record of the September 11 attacks. As …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, June 19, 2009 | 7 Comments
Regardless of which team wins the ICC World Twenty20 this weekend, the tournament has undoubtedly been a great success, with its exciting brand of cricket, …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
Violent crime is mostly heinous. How else can one describe a scenario where persons set out to batter, murder, rape or terrorise other persons because …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
A barrage of comment by both the political leadership of the region, and commentators in the press, suggests a certain concern about the Caribbean Community’s …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | 5 Comments
The recent arraignment of ex-policeman Lloyd Roberts and the issuance of a wanted bulletin for another ex-policeman− Sean Belfield, called “Backup” − both in connection …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments
No doubt nonplussed by the government’s endless shilly-shallying on the delayed and much needed 3 million pounds sterling programme of security assistance to Guyana, the …
