By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 1, 2009 | 0 Comments
All societies need men and women of vision; people who can lift their eyes to the horizon and assimilate the larger contours of a landscape …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 31, 2009 | 2 Comments
In just over a month, the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will attempt to strike a balance between developing nations who need to reduce …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
Contrary to expectations that a negotiated solution to the four-month-old crisis in Honduras was near, the stalemate continues. Both the de facto leader, Roberto Micheletti, …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 29, 2009 | 3 Comments
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez told the citizens of that country last week that they should shower for just three minutes in order to conserve on …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
From time to time there are suggestions that Caricom is not making progress or has lost its raison d’etre. And over the years there have …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | 9 Comments
Only two days after Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan had been jailed in New York for several crimes including importing cocaine into the USA from his base …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 26, 2009 | 8 Comments
After years of unremitting pressure, the government seems to be attempting to do something about the elephant in the room – the rampage of Roger …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
There was some discussion earlier in this newspaper, particularly in the letters column, about whether Mavado should have been banned from performing in this country. …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 24, 2009 | 7 Comments
Within the space of a week, the mainstream press in the United States has embarrassed itself at least three times by confusing fact and fiction …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 23, 2009 | 19 Comments
Queen’s College alumni from the Diaspora, the majority of them old boys from the late 1950s and early 1960s, have already started to arrive for …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 6 Comments
As yet another week of power outages and low and high voltages begins to wind down, one cannot help but wonder how it is that …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
As then Senator Barack Obama campaigned for the American Presidency he seemed to understand well enough that the war in Iraq had become a millstone …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
Commissioner of Police Henry Greene admitted at the Guyana Police Force’s 170th anniversary awards ceremony last July that the rising rates of armed robbery with …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 19, 2009 | 10 Comments
Aside from all of the other ramifications, the sentencing of Mr Roger Khan in a New York court for conspiracy to import cocaine into the …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, October 18, 2009 | 10 Comments
So finally Roger Khan has been sentenced in a New York federal court for drug smuggling, witness tampering and gun possession in Vermont. As expected, …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 17, 2009 | 4 Comments
Forty years ago, commenting on the contradictions of US foreign policy in Vietnam, Norman Mailer observed that “Bombing a country at the same time you …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
Last Friday’s Regent Street fire was a grim reminder of the historic vulnerability of a huge section of our commercial capital to disaster. Regent Street …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
It is a good thing that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has convened a conference for the heads of Guyana’s 13 diplomatic missions abroad. What …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
As Guyana begins to take its first tottering steps towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) readiness, in its move to …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
The result of the referendum held in Ireland at the beginning of this month has signalled the virtual end to a long campaign in Europe …