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By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | 2 Comments
The wave of grave maritime incidents should have made at least three things clear to the administration. First, that the Guyana Police Force is ill-equipped …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
The irony of the Home Affairs Minister and the fire chief standing proudly in front of gleaming fire-fighting units the day before a devastating fire …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, October 11, 2009 | 8 Comments
The siren song of power is hard to resist. And it is particularly hard to resist for those who have been in office for some …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
Earlier this week, after pocketing a US$10 million bonus for winning the Fedex Cup, Tiger Woods became the first billionaire athlete in history, according to …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
There are signs that the steps taken by the Barack Obama administration to relax some restrictions on contact with Cuba and the initiation of quiet, …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 9, 2009 | 0 Comments
There are signs that the steps taken by the Barack Obama administration to relax some restrictions on contact with Cuba and the initiation of quiet, …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
Some years ago, there used to be a blind man begging on Regent Street. For that matter, in the past several physically disabled people could …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 7, 2009 | 0 Comments
Last week’s editorial on this theme focused on the meetings that took place among the traditional post-war powers and their partners among the emerging economic …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 6, 2009 | 5 Comments
Justice Jainarayan Singh’s public complaint last week seemed to highlight much that has gone wrong with the criminal justice system, law enforcement and human rights …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 5, 2009 | 9 Comments
As we reported in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, the Guyana Times which was launched in June last year is already receiving 19.5% of state advertisements through …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, October 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
The tragedy on which we reported last week when a young man threw himself under the wheels of a truck contains elements which say a …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 3, 2009 | 6 Comments
Although, by any reasonable measure the situation in Afghanistan is worsening steadily – a corrupt government, rigged elections, a resurgent Taliban – instead of reconsidering …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 2, 2009 | 0 Comments
Almost two weeks after Manuel Zelaya’s surprise return to Tegucigalpa, it is clear that any hopes that he might have harboured of provoking a rapid …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 1, 2009 | 0 Comments
In our Tuesday edition this week, we reported on ‘Operation Care’ an ongoing anti-truancy campaign that is carried out at irregular periods by the Ministry …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
In the last few weeks a series of encounters have taken place at the very top of our international society that indicate a sense of …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
President Barack Obama’s commitment to what he called the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, given during the Fifth Summit of the Americas in April this year …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, September 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
During an interview in August with Stabroek News, the Chairman of the Private Sector Commis-sion, Mr Gerry Gouveia called for tighter restrictions on the wildlife …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, September 27, 2009 | 7 Comments
Recording
The week before last a recording was released purporting to implicate a public official in impropriety, namely, the solicitation of a minor. The allegation is …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, September 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
News that trials of an HIV vaccine have produced encouraging results offer a small glimmer of hope that the AIDS epidemic may eventually be brought …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, September 25, 2009 | 0 Comments
There is usually a fine line dividing overwhelming folly from extreme courage. At the time of writing, it is not clear how exactly to categorise …
