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By Stabroek staff | Saturday, May 30, 2009 | 4 Comments
In what is likely to be one of modern literature’s least memorable scandals, Ruth Padel recently stepped down as Oxford Professor of Poetry after learning …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, May 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
Market vending comprises a significant part of the small business sector. The contribution of this aspect of the retail trade to economic life as a …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, May 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
The political situation in Venezuela is tense and the slide into authoritarian rule appears to be continuing unabated. Political persecution, harassment, intimidation and threats are …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
At a forum on Monday last to launch what will initially be a year of anti-violence activities targeting men, Dr Marlon Hestick, executive member of …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
With the conclusion of counting in India’s general elections last week, the Indian National Congress confounded many of the electoral pundits in India and abroad …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
This month marks the fifth anniversary of Justice Ian Chang’s presentation of the report of the Disciplined Forces Commission to Speaker of the National Assembly …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, May 25, 2009 | 8 Comments
Just over a year ago, on April 7, President Jagdeo sounded off on what he said was orchestrated fraud at Customs involving Fidelity Inc and …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
On February 26, 1997, this newspaper published an editorial captioned ‘Tell the people.’ It said: “We recognize that among the other things prompting… reticence will …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, May 23, 2009 | 3 Comments
Two weeks ago the US Senate began an inquiry into the ‘future of journalism.’ It held hearings at which prominent journalists, publishers and new media entrepreneurs …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, May 22, 2009 | 3 Comments
We have had on occasion had to comment before on the opaqueness of official communications emanating from the different organs of Caricom. And as recently …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
When People magazine included Michelle Obama in its recent “most beautiful” list, which usually profiles celebrities no one wondered why. The wife of the 44th …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
A series of meetings of ministerial and heads of government is being held in the region at both the Caricom and OECS levels at this …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | 7 Comments
At the end of a week’s worth of wordplay at the 24th annual conference of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police, Barbados Commissioner of …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, May 18, 2009 | 3 Comments
Pundits have suggested that the riveting revelations in the UK over the last two weeks about the unconscionable expenses claimed by MPs of all political …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, May 17, 2009 | 9 Comments
It was a correspondent writing in our edition of October 18, 2007, who alerted the public to the fact that the GPO had joined a …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, May 16, 2009 | 4 Comments
President Obama’s decision earlier this week to withhold evidence of detainee abuse, lest new images of mistreatment and torture “inflame anti-American opinion and [put] our …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
In an astonishing interview on Tuesday, West Indies cricket captain Chris Gayle said that he was no longer interested in the West Indies captaincy or …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, May 14, 2009 | 4 Comments
At the end of last week, two more women lay dead. Their lives brutally ended by the men they had shared intimate relationships with. Their …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
Increasingly citizens and governments of Caricom states are becoming conscious of the states of Latin America as players in the wider hemispheric arena in which …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | 0 Comments
In its annual demonstration of self-congratulation, the Guyana Police Force Officers’ Conference last March showered encomiums on the Traffic Department for its “success” in reducing …
