Editorial

  • Miners’ protest

    By Stabroek staff | Monday, February 8, 2010 | 4 Comments


    In a television programme on NCN on February 1, Prime Minister Sam Hinds, who has responsibility for mining, launched a thoroughly misplaced attack on the …

  • Respect

    By Stabroek staff | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 4 Comments


    Bartica gave the government a jolt. The revolt against the proposed six-months’ notification rule before mining can commence was unexpected for a number of reasons. …

  • Lessons from T&T

    By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments


    There are some important lessons to be drawn from Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s historic election to the post of political leader of the United National Congress (UNC) …

  • Greener pastures

    By Stabroek staff | Thursday, February 4, 2010 | 2 Comments


    In May last year, local nurses met at a two-day summit where they sought to evaluate themselves and the profession generally and look at strategies …

  • Juvenile crime and joblessness

    By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments


    Twenty-year-old Monelle Alexis’s eloquent but unexpected rebuke ruffled the easygoing pro forma proceedings of the Caribbean Community heads of government ‘Special Summit on Youth Development’ …

  • Mangroves and $1B

    By Stabroek staff | Monday, February 1, 2010 | 5 Comments


    Last Monday’s edition of this newspaper reported residents of Mon Repos as doubting the claimed success of a mangrove replanting project which had been hyped …

  • Foreign policy

    By Administrator | Sunday, January 31, 2010 | 14 Comments


    Following his trip to the Middle East, where he visited Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Iran, President Jagdeo told the media that there would …

  • The reinvention of reading

    By Stabroek staff | Saturday, January 30, 2010 | 9 Comments


    Every day thousands of people click through and comment on the online edition of this newspaper and dozens of other regional publications, without paying for …

  • Kamlamania

    By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment


    Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s landslide victory over Basdeo Panday for the leadership of Trinidad and Tobago’s main opposition party, the United National Congress (UNC), has sent journalists, …

  • Mental case

    By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 4 Comments


    Early Monday morning, Ms Alexis Felix a 30-year-old mother of three, picked up her youngest child – a three-week-old boy – walked to a nearby …

  • The bad eggs problem

    By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 9 Comments


    Commissioner of Police Henry Greene lamented publicly that the Guyana Police Force had “bad eggs.” He admitted that “We have ranks doing what we call …

  • World Bank panel

    By Stabroek staff | Sunday, January 24, 2010 | 17 Comments


    It was the Guyana Times which last Saturday informed the nation that the Government of Guyana had sought the removal of Dr Janette Bulkan from …

  • Google vs Beijing

    By Stabroek staff | Saturday, January 23, 2010 | 2 Comments


    Responding to a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China,” Google recently warned that it had begun to “review the …

  • Septic tank deaths

    By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 21, 2010 | 3 Comments


    The first one was days before Christmas 2009. Thaddius Samuels, a four-year-old described as chatty and energetic, died in a septic tank on December 21 …

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