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isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=170239</guid> <description><![CDATA[As stated in the February 5, 2012 Sunday Stabroek editorial, after two decades in office inclusive of a major disaster seven years ago, the PPP/C government has run out of excuses where it relates to viable solutions and a comprehensive plan to confront flooding. If there is a single issue which has reflected the full [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/13/flooding-and-incompetence/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Avoiding gridlock</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/12/avoiding-gridlock/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/12/avoiding-gridlock/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:01:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=170177</guid> <description><![CDATA[“As willing as my government is to exercise patience, forbearance and reasonableness in the interest of all of our people, my administration will not be held [to] ransom… [by] intractable postures,” President Ramotar told parliamentarians in his first address to the National Assembly on Friday. It might be observed that intractable postures are by no [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/12/avoiding-gridlock/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Political campaigns that produce heat but no light</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/11/political-campaigns-that-produce-heat-but-no-light/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/11/political-campaigns-that-produce-heat-but-no-light/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:01:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=169983</guid> <description><![CDATA[As the race for the US Republican party nomination meanders between four different candidates, the use of negative campaigning has assumed new significance. Mitt Romney, the wealthiest candidate, has relied on the largess of so-called Super-Political Action Committees (PACs) – nominally independent of his campaign – to harry opponents with timely attack ads. Candidates with [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/11/political-campaigns-that-produce-heat-but-no-light/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Flip-flopping on the Falklands</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/10/flip-flopping-on-the-falklands/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/10/flip-flopping-on-the-falklands/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:01:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=169813</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just in case anyone believes that Caricom states are still capable of consistently clever diplomacy, then think again. The statement issued at the end of the recent UK-Caribbean Ministerial Forum in Grenada expressing support for the right of the Falkland Islanders to self-determination might have been regarded as an attempt by Caricom to move towards [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/10/flip-flopping-on-the-falklands/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Caring for the elderly</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/09/caring-for-the-elderly/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/09/caring-for-the-elderly/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:01:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=169673</guid> <description><![CDATA[It was reported last Friday, that following one of their meetings, the government and the parliamentary opposition agreed to set up three committees that would, broadly, deal with issues affecting governance, the constitution and the economy. The Economic (non-budget 2012) Committee, it was reported, has as its mandate old age pensions, the poor and vulnerable [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/09/caring-for-the-elderly/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Global economic difficulties and ourselves</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/08/global-economic-difficulties-and-ourselves/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/08/global-economic-difficulties-and-ourselves/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:01:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=169518</guid> <description><![CDATA[It would not be odd if, in various capitals of the smaller states and economies of the world, both officials and citizens are beginning to be somewhat fearful of the continuing economic crisis among many countries in the Eurozone, and of what has appeared to be a gridlock between the centres of government and Congressional  [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/08/global-economic-difficulties-and-ourselves/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dr Gopaul’s pronouncement</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/07/dr-gopaul%e2%80%99s-pronouncement/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/07/dr-gopaul%e2%80%99s-pronouncement/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:01:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=169380</guid> <description><![CDATA[About a week ago, Labour Minister Dr Nanda Kishore Gopaul made an eye-catching comment in a section of the print media about what he described as “brazen disrespect for the country’s labour laws by some local and foreign companies.” Threatening “prosecutions… in cases where there were violations” and declaring that there would be “no letting [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/07/dr-gopaul%e2%80%99s-pronouncement/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Priorities for investigation</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/06/priorities-for-investigation/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/06/priorities-for-investigation/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:01:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=169237</guid> <description><![CDATA[Parliament’s new configuration and the PPP/C’s loss of its accustomed majority will test all sides in and out of the House on several seminal questions. To what extent should the opposition immediately press for enquiries into clear cases of misconduct, neglect or abject failure by previous governments, the most recent one in particular – the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/06/priorities-for-investigation/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Flood cycle</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/05/flood-cycle/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/05/flood-cycle/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:01:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=169213</guid> <description><![CDATA[One wonders what else there is to say about flooding in Guyana that hasn’t be said many times before. Yet the experience of 2005 notwithstanding, we still lurch from one flood to the next while being given the usual litany of excuses – the highest rainfall since whenever, or La Niña, or citizens dumping garbage [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/05/flood-cycle/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The silencing of Salman Rushdie</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/04/the-silencing-of-salman-rushdie/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/04/the-silencing-of-salman-rushdie/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:01:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=168937</guid> <description><![CDATA[Valentine’s Day this year will mark the twenty-third anniversary of the Iranian fatwa against the novelist Salman Rushdie. Initially the death threats against Rushdie provoked an intelligent and necessary defence of his right to freedom of expression, but in many quarters the debate lapsed into an acrimonious quarrel on tangential matters. For some the sentence [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/04/the-silencing-of-salman-rushdie/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The weakness of Caricom diplomacy</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/03/the-weakness-of-caricom-diplomacy/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/03/the-weakness-of-caricom-diplomacy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:01:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=168777</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wednesday’s editorial, ‘Britain and Caricom,‘ raised a few questions about the coordination, coherence, efficiency and efficacy of Caricom’s collective diplomacy. It focused, among other things, on the failure of the region’s foreign ministers to extract an agreement from British Foreign Secretary William Hague, at the UK-Caribbean Forum in Grenada, to review the exorbitant and discriminatory [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/03/the-weakness-of-caricom-diplomacy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Save our  children</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/02/save-our-children/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/02/save-our-children/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:01:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=168585</guid> <description><![CDATA[With 2012 just a month old, there have already been at least four reports of serious crimes committed against children in Guyana. Earlier this month, two girls barely into their teens gave birth at the Georgetown Public Hospital – one by caesarian section, and for a while it seemed her 13-year-old body would not recover. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/02/save-our-children/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Britain and Caricom</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/01/britain-and-caricom/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/01/britain-and-caricom/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:01:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=168417</guid> <description><![CDATA[The dominating thought in the minds of those who would have heard of an imminent meeting between the foreign ministers of Caricom and their counterpart from the United Kingdom, William Hague, a little over a week and a half ago, must have been whether he would be bringing fresh, positive news about what Caricom considers [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/02/01/britain-and-caricom/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Life after the presidency</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/31/life-after-the-presidency/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/31/life-after-the-presidency/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:01:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=168211</guid> <description><![CDATA[On December 3, 2011, Bharrat Jagdeo assumed the status of a ‘retired’ president. His twelve-year tenure had been more than twice that of any of his predecessors. Even today, in retirement, he is still considerably younger than any of his predecessors were at the start of their respective presidencies. During the earlier months of 2011, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/31/life-after-the-presidency/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Stronger institutions, better governance</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/30/stronger-institutions-better-governance/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/30/stronger-institutions-better-governance/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:01:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=167995</guid> <description><![CDATA[Good governance thrives in an environment where there are robust checks and balances; where no branch of government exercises unrestrained and improper sway as for example the executive influencing decisions of the judiciary or creating conditions where judicial officers feel intimidated or beholden to the executive in the discharge of their functions. In the case [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/30/stronger-institutions-better-governance/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>UG Council</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/29/ug-council/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/29/ug-council/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:01:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=167886</guid> <description><![CDATA[On October 18 last, we carried a report about the University of Guyana Workers’ Union saying they would be taking legal action against UG “if moves by the government representatives on the University Council to terminate the contracts of a number of lecturers are successful.”  That, of course was a little over a month before [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/29/ug-council/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Godfrey’s canvas</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/28/godfrey%e2%80%99s-canvas/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/28/godfrey%e2%80%99s-canvas/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:01:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=167734</guid> <description><![CDATA[We are, still, a young nation. We hasten towards our destiny and, like most youngsters, pay scant regard to the past. The past is another province. We want to engage with the present. We tend to leave it to a few scholars to research our past, perhaps mould it to suit the dominant dogmas or [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/28/godfrey%e2%80%99s-canvas/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brainstorming on the CSME</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/27/brainstorming-on-the-csme/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/27/brainstorming-on-the-csme/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:01:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=167587</guid> <description><![CDATA[One hopes that Prof Norman Girvan’s recent meeting, in his capacity as the Personal Representative of the UN Secretary General in the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy, with President Donald Ramotar and Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, also provided the opportunity for engagement on matters relating to the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME). Prof Girvan is, after [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/27/brainstorming-on-the-csme/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Inequality and greed</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/26/inequality-and-greed/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/26/inequality-and-greed/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:01:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=167442</guid> <description><![CDATA[In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, US President Barack Obama denounced that country’s bottom heavy tax system, among other things, as well the fact that in many parts of America women still do not receive equal pay for equal work done and pledged to do all he could to change both [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/26/inequality-and-greed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>US elections: Republican challengers</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/25/us-elections-republican-challengers/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/25/us-elections-republican-challengers/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:01:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=167328</guid> <description><![CDATA[As happens from time to time, the present American presidential election process is an unorthodox one, since barring any unpredictable occurrence, the Democratic candidate is already known. Popular and media interest and excitement therefore presently focus on the race among the Republican contenders for that party’s candidacy. And Saturday’s South Carolina primary certainly added to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/25/us-elections-republican-challengers/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Minister Manickchand’s assignment</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/24/minister-manickchand%e2%80%99s-assignment/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/24/minister-manickchand%e2%80%99s-assignment/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:01:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=167147</guid> <description><![CDATA[Of the few new ministerial appointments and portfolio reassignments that have occurred under the Ramotar administration, those of Ministers Robert Persaud and Priya Manickchand are probably the most significant. Minister Persaud has been tasked with giving shape and substance to the newly created Ministry of Natural Resources. That ministry clusters the country’s natural resources – [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/24/minister-manickchand%e2%80%99s-assignment/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Roger Khan: The elephant in the room</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/23/roger-khan-the-elephant-in-the-room/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/23/roger-khan-the-elephant-in-the-room/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:01:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=167010</guid> <description><![CDATA[As President Ramotar settles into his mandate and comes to grips with his agenda for the year and beyond, nothing will test his freedom of action and sincerity in reforming the security sector like the question of a full investigation into the rampage here of convicted drug lord Roger Khan and whether his activities ensnared [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/23/roger-khan-the-elephant-in-the-room/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Opposition reality check</title><link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/22/opposition-reality-check/</link> <comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/22/opposition-reality-check/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:01:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stabroek staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=166961</guid> <description><![CDATA[Having been handed the kind of gift which no one could have imagined a decade ago, the opposition has not been taking best advantage of it. It is not an easy gift, of course; it requires careful handling and considerable adroitness on the part of the handlers to be of true utility. The opposition – [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/01/22/opposition-reality-check/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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