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By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
A few weeks ago, addressing the Queen’s College anniversary celebrations (in a blackout), Dr Roopnaraine asked his audience (and by extension all Guyanese) to “embrace …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
It is a pity that Dr Rupert Roopnaraine’s feature address delivered at the special assembly of the Queen’s College reunion a few weeks ago, was …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 5 Comments
Twenty years ago, the member states of the United Nations agreed to a binding treaty of international law which would allow all children in all …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
A somewhat surprising hiatus in the governance of Haiti, the removal of Haitian Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis by the country’s Senate in October, gave cause …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | 2 Comments
Within weeks of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal of its projected Security Sector Reform Action Plan, a gang of bandits staged an assault on several state …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 16, 2009 | 5 Comments
It must have gladdened the hearts of all Guyanese here and in the diaspora to absorb the news of the munificent Norwegian decision to support …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
Last week came the unexpected announcement from the President that taxis were all to have the same colour by August 2010. There was little reaction …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
In 1988, Freedom House, a group which monitors liberty around the world, estimated that in political terms 36 per cent of the globe’s 167 independent …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 6 Comments
In Guyana, we seem to lurch from one crisis to another. Right now, we most obviously have a crisis of lawlessness on our hands, as …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 16 Comments
There are expressions of shock as it has emerged that 16-year-old Vivian Singh Balrup was quite likely beaten to death because he picked watermelon someone …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 5 Comments
What used to be called the Western world, the area of the post-war world centred on the NATO alliance, has this week been celebrating the …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 5 Comments
The murder of People’s Progressive Party stalwart and former Vice-Chairman of the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara Region Ramenauth Bisram last month has opened a can of …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 9, 2009 | 16 Comments
Wednesday’s blitz by criminals against police stations, the Supreme Court of Judicature and a High School which left one man dead must be condemned in …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | 4 Comments
The government has perhaps been taken off-guard by the vehemence of the reaction from all quarters of society to the appalling injuries inflicted on a …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 7, 2009 | 5 Comments
Early next week a district court in New York will decide whether a class-action settlement that would allow Google to continue digitizing millions of old …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
It is somewhat ironic that even as we were calling last Friday for heads to be banged together in order to resolve the constitutional crisis …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 5, 2009 | 8 Comments
The seeds of violence, planted, watered and fed have taken root and blossomed; violently cut down they spring up again sprouting numerous branches wherever one …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | 0 Comments
Caribbean observers will have been watching with interest the efforts of the Bruce Golding government, since its accession to office in Jamaica, to come to …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | 4 Comments
Public confidence in the Guyana Police Force has been eroded over the past decade by numerous allegations of bribery, corruption, collaboration with narco-traffickers, extra-judicial killings, …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 2, 2009 | 11 Comments
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the abandonment of the UK Security Sector Reform Programme is the unmistakable signal from the Guyana Government that the …
