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Age of opportunity
This newspaper reported yesterday that some 17 students –all in their early teens—from two city secondary schools had been held by the police and were giving statements after they marched into the Leonora Secondary School armed with knives, to settle a score.
Whose court of justice?
It would not be at all surprising if individuals and officials in various parts of the world with whom Caricom countries do business, are asking themselves this question about our region, concerning what they have been led to think is a regional institution, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
The GRA Commissioner General’s promised enquiry
It would, perhaps, be precipitate to suggest, at this stage, that the hurdles that appear to be springing up following GRA Commissioner General Kurshid Sattaur’s publicly stated commitment to a full and transparent investigation into the Vega Azurit cocaine incident could end up derailing a major drug bust.
The President lowered the bar at Port Mourant
There has been much parsing of President Jagdeo’s Babu John address this month as in the past his presentations at this hallowed site have set the scene for what is to follow both politically and in terms of policies at the national level.
A matter of principle
The Government of Guyana, normally so garrulous on the subject of democracy and human rights, has been quite quiet on the matter of Libya and the violence visited by Muammar Gaddafi on his citizens.
The cost of ‘free education’
Sometimes it is worth stating the obvious.
Not ready
No one should have been surprised by the West Indies’ departure from the quarterfinals of the Cricket World Cup on Wednesday.
Blame it on La Niña
“Water in Guyana can be also deemed as a liability instead of an asset,” Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said on Tuesday in an address at an event held to mark International World Water and Meteorological Day.
The powers at war
President Obama, having achieved a resolution at the United Nations satisfactory to what appeared to be his preliminary hesitations, finally tip-toed into a limited intervention in Libya, on the basis of ensuring that the country is made a ‘no fly zone.
The Commissioner General and the Vega Azurit incident
There appeared to be a hint of contriteness in some of the comments made to this newspaper by Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Khurshid Sattaur, and reported in our Friday edition, in the matter of the recent Vega Azurit cocaine bust in Jamaica.
Stelling cover-up
Twice last year, in August and October, Stabroek News editorialized on the likelihood that the engineering calamity at the Supenaam Stelling would see the government playing for time and eventually holding no one blameable or financially liable for it.
University on the cheap
Earlier this month we reported on Vice-Chancellor Lawrence Carrington’s concerns about UG’s finances.
Free the schools
Katharine Birbalsingh is a bright young Englishwoman, a teacher by profession and of Guyanese extraction.
Reculer pour mieux sauter
‘Reculer pour mieux sauter’ – the French maxim means ‘to take a step back in order to jump better’ or, in other words, to retreat in order to achieve a stronger position – was supposed to be a favoured tactic of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Waterlogged
Some time after 1 pm on Tuesday, a tree outside the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground at Bourda became uprooted and fell bringing down an electricity pole with wires and upsetting a swarm of bees that had probably been living in its branches.