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Heritage
No one would have noticed, but April 18 was the International Day for Monuments and Sites.
Uncooperative approaches
Nothing has been seen or heard of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei since his detention at Beijing Airport early this month for unspecified “economic crimes.
The Royal Wedding
For many it would probably have been one great yawn but this morning would also have found many Guyanese and West Indians, probably older rather than younger, glued to their television screens, watching the nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
A 20 per cent tax
According to World Bank estimates more than $1 trillion are paid in bribes each year out of an annual world economy of $30 trillion.
Nigerian post-electoral turmoil
Hopes that the presidential and parliamentary elections in the Federal Republic of Nigeria would have passed off relatively peacefully, were dashed almost immediately after the announcement of the results in favour of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Presidential debates and the 2011 political campaign
Few people who are familiar with the Guyanese political culture would have attached any substantive significance to the recent announcement that Messrs.
The Vaitarna matter
A report by the Times of India earlier this month that an Indian company, Vaitarna Holdings, controlled 1.
Education channel
In our editorial of Monday, March 14, we had drawn attention to the fact that the Education Television Broadcasting Service was being set up in breach of the understanding reached during the dialogue between President Jagdeo and the late Mr Hoyte, and the continuation of that dialogue with the latter’s successor, Mr Robert Corbin.
“Systematic rejuvenation” in Cuba
Cuba’s Communist Party inaugurated its first Congress in 14 years on April 16, exactly 50 years since Fidel Castro confirmed his embrace of socialism, the adoption of a centralised Soviet-style economy and one-party rule.
Economics of trees
At a symposium to mark the International Year of Forests earlier this week at the International Convention Centre, Liliendaal, President Bharrat Jagdeo boasted that Guyana has led the way in developing what he called the “economics of trees”, referring of course to the Low Carbon Development Strategy and its potential for raking in big bucks for the preservation of trees to be used in the country’s development.
EU moving forward in the hemisphere
Recent signings by the European Union of trade and economic agreements with countries in the Hemisphere, including the states of Central America in our Caribbean Basin, indicate the EU’s continuing determination to extend their formal frameworks of economic relations beyond the recently independent states of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
The state media and the 2011 general elections
Access to the state media by political parties never fails to become a major political issue during the campaign period preceding general elections in Guyana.
Holding the police accountable
It is ironic in many ways that need not be elaborated that Surinamese President Desi Bouterse last week admonished his police force not to behave like “Hitler’s Gestapo” and warning that those responsible for barbaric actions can expect severe sanctions.
Town Clerk
If the story of the government’s relations with the city council were to be made into a movie, no one would watch it because the plot would be so convoluted, so repetitious and so wearisome that it would be impossible to sustain the viewer’s interest beyond the first five minutes.
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.