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By Stabroek staff | Friday, September 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
The standoff in Honduras continues. It is now just over two months since President Manuel Zelaya was removed from office and ejected from the country …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, September 3, 2009 | 4 Comments
The global financial crisis has seen stock markets dip, economies slow down and many people lose their jobs and homes, but the food, drink and …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
Context is everything. In social relations, a statement uttered in times of calm and good relations among groups of people may be taken as harmless …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | 4 Comments
Describing the recent robbery and murder by members of the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard in the Essequibo River as “reprehensible,” President Bharrat Jagdeo added …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, August 31, 2009 | 3 Comments
In its simplest form, good governance is responsive to the basic, legitimate and essential needs of the governed. In tight fiscal circumstances it also requires …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, August 30, 2009 | 6 Comments
It is as if the current leadership of the PNCR is trapped in a proverbial time warp, far removed from the current realities. It does …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, August 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Any West Indian reading the history of modern Africa will find a depressing number of echoes in the failure of its nationalist dreams. In 1945 …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, August 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
PJ Patterson, has rejected in forthright terms any “attempt to portray the notion that the WICB has accepted and is proceeding in accordance” with the …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, August 27, 2009 | 2 Comments
Three members of the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate Court this week charged with murdering Bartica gold dealer Dweive Kant …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 | 3 Comments
The British political system has been thrown into turmoil by the decision of the Scottish Minister of Justice to release the Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
Three events – the outbreak of the Black Sigatoka leaf spot disease allegedly affecting Guyanese banana plants, the contraband ‘backtrack’ trade in assorted commodities and …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, August 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
In their ruling in the case of Trinidad Cement Limited and TCL Guyana Incorporated versus the State of Guyana, the justices of the CCJ said …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, August 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
Amid all the gloom in Georgetown last week, there was one little ray of comedy in the form of some bashful protestors in front of …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, August 22, 2009 | 3 Comments
Usain Bolt’s sprint double at the World Championships in Berlin has established him, unquestionably, as the greatest sprinter of all time. Yesterday, as he turned …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, August 21, 2009 | 5 Comments
It is generally accepted that the current global financial crisis was brought about by a toxic combination of greed and gullibility. The crisis afflicting West …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, August 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
Indigenous village leaders attending a national caucus which was held in Georgetown late last month brought with them lists of issues which affect the residents …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
The suspension of the constitutional arrangements – the ministerial system and the House of Assembly – of the Turks and Caicos Islands, promised by the …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
The dangerous lawlessness on this country’s rivers and coastal waters is taking a toll on human life. Yet, the two agencies with responsibility for regulating …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, August 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
Headlined by a whopping loss of $4.08b, GuySuCo’s Annual Report for 2008 lays bare the enormous challenge that sugar faces in coming to grips with …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, August 16, 2009 | 3 Comments
Whether it is because of the revelations emerging from a federal courtroom in Brooklyn, or whether it is because of the other innumerable problems which …
