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A bad week
Suspicion is the curse of this country.
Too much hot air?
As the UN Climate Change talks in South Africa ended, one country emerged as an unexpected leader in the transition to green technology – the People’s Republic of China.
Political maturity
President Donald Ramotar would be forgiven for thinking that his term at the head of a minority government has not got off to the most auspicious of beginnings, with some worrying signs in the immediate aftermath of the elections.
Politics and gender
A president chooses his own cabinet, or at least he should.
A change of government for St Lucia
Coinciding closely with the elections in Guyana and just before the forthcoming ones in Jamaica on December 29, general elections were concluded in St Lucia on November 28, with the opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) displacing the former Prime Minister Sir John Compton’s United Workers Party (UWP) with an 11-6 majority in the country’s House of Assembly.
‘Dotishness’ and ‘excursions into nonsense’
Each time that national and regional elections are held in Guyana the spotlight falls on the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).
Election results and opportunities
No matter the depth and breadth of recrimination among the parties that preceded the November 28, 2011 general election, its sobering results offer the rudiments for a transformation of the present adversarial and enervating political environment.
Election 2011
The people have spoken.
A lesson from the NBA
At first glance the 149-day lockout that has derailed this year’s NBA season seems remote from the concerns of the wider world.
Credibility
At a time when cynicism about the motives of politicians in general abounds in Guyana, it would perhaps come as no surprise that the credibility of politicians in other parts of the region is also being seriously questioned.
Getting to zero
Today is World AIDS Day around the world and it is being commemorated under the theme ‘Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections.
Emerging global rearrangements
As the Eurozone crisis has continued, an interesting development has been the interest of the so-called emerging economic powers of what has hitherto been called the Third World in a positive outcome, and hints of a willingness to help achieve that, given appropriate conditions.
Democracy, power and the plight of dictators
It took exactly seven months, from his first announcement on April 23 that he would step down, to the eventual signing of the agreement on November 23, for Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh to finally bring his thirty three-year grip on power – first, as President of the then North Yemen since 1978 and from 1991 as President of a unified Yemen – to an end.
Vote
Today, we repeat some of the appeals we had made in our August 28, 2006 polling day editorial.
Private Sector Commission and elections
There was a curious development on Thursday, when the cabinet announced that tomorrow would be a public holiday.