By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | 4 Comments
It is easy to blame the inspectors and sergeants for all of the problems of the Guyana Police Force. As he did last year, Minister …
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 …
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. …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, February 6, 2010 | 5 Comments
The recent death of JD Salinger, at the age of 91, has brought to a close one of the strangest chapters in modern American letters. …
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) …
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 …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
Amidst the turmoil caused by the earthquake and extensive destruction and loss of life in Haiti, and the focus of the international community on rescue …
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’ …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
As we reported in this paper on Monday, Ms Kamla Persad-Bissessar won a decisive victory over longstanding Leader of the UNC Basdeo Panday in the …
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 …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, January 25, 2010 | 9 Comments
With each passing week, the Jagdeo administration continues to lower the bar as it relates to ethics in government business and standards in public life.
Nowhere …
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 …
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 …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 22, 2010 | 3 Comments
Last Sunday, as most of us were consumed by events following the deadly earthquake in Haiti in the northern Caribbean, a seismic political shift was …
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 …