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Old people’s politics
“You wouldn’t let your grandparents choose who you date,” says the advertisement, “Then why let them choose your government?” And yet, just weeks away from a fourth federal election in seven years, voter apathy is as likely to determine the outcome of the next Canadian election as anything the underwhelming leadership of the three main national parties will say during the rest of the campaign.
Honduras: the emergence of a consensus?
Beyond the diplomatic rapprochement sealed by the summit meeting between Colombia’s new President, Juan Manuel Santos, and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela last weekend in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias, there were signs that another festering sore in Latin American relations might soon be healed.
Haags Bosch
It was supposed to be the answer to the city’s garbage woes, foremost of which was the expired Le Repentir landfill that had so long polluted the lives of so many.
US-hemispheric-Caribbean trade developments
In recent weeks developments have taken place that show a new United States interest in furthering liberalization of trade relations with hemispheric countries.
The BV Post Office robbery
Most post offices in Guyana, particularly the rural outposts, are small, inconspicuous fragile-looking buildings, not attended by much evidence of security.
Convenient roads
Towards the end of March in its usual excitable style the Government Information Agency reported that President Bharrat Jagdeo had committed $50M for road improvement between Matthews Ridge and Port Kaituma in the northwest.
Consensus
Considering that the PPP never stops talking about democracy, it surely has the most opaque internal ‘democratic’ processes of all the parties.
Democratic dreams
Two weeks ago on a theatre stage in Brussels, as part of a cultural project called Shahrazad – Stories for Life – the Iraqi poet and essayist Manal Al-Skeikh (born in Nineveh, now resident in Norway) read the following passage from a lyrical ‘Letter to Europe’: “My experience of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions taught me the following lesson: if people are determined to live, destiny will respond.
A row in T&T
A row that has erupted in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago may resonate with some in Guyana.
White Zone
News that domestic violence survivors are finding temporary refuge at the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s first White Zone in Berbice is welcome and the programme as outlined by its Coordinator Nalini Katryan provides a measure of hope.
Civil war in Ivory Coast
The eruption of a virtual civil war in the Ivory Coast is really a long-delayed effect of the character of political rule which this country has experienced since its independence in 1960, in particular the long period of rule (1960-1993) under former President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
The Leonora incident
Some of us are still trying to get our minds around last Tuesday’s incident allegedly involving seventeen students from two city schools who, reportedly armed with knives, travelled several miles from Georgetown to Leonora, reportedly to settle a score with a student at the Leonora Secondary School.
‘Reckless hostility’
At his press conference on March 31, Head of the Presidential Secretariat , Dr Roger Luncheon accused Stabroek News of “reckless hostility” towards the One Laptop Per Family project.
Ambassadorial postings
Only now that the country is on the brink of an election has President Jagdeo seen fit to dispense with the services of his Minister of Local Government, Mr Kellawan Lall.
Brave New Worlds
The bewildering pace at which information technology is evolving has begun to affect old fashioned politics with unsettling speed.