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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.
Unfinished revolutions
Embattled protests at Tahrir Square and, despite severe repression, tenacious opposition movements in Yemen and Syria indicate that the Arab Spring is far from over.
Lessons from Jonestown
November 18 marked the 33rd anniversary of the Jonestown murder-suicide that took the lives of some 909 Americans, members of the People’s Temple of Jim Jones, at their sanctuary near Port Kaituma.
Rush hour
Getting into central Georgetown in daylight hours can tax the nerves of even someone with a steel will.
More Egyptian turmoil
Hopes in the wider world that Egypt would have settled down, and be on the way to settling a new constitutional system after the overthrow last February of President Mubarak’s quasi-military regime, have been dashed by the widespread rioting commencing last week.
Seeking the truth about Rawle Blackman’s death
Rawle Blackman died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation on Sunday November 13 after reportedly sustaining serious head injuries in circumstances which, up until now, appear unclear.
Another form of paramountcy
Whenever convenient, the PPP/C never fails to invoke the imagery of the PNC’s flag fluttering over the High Court during the Burnham years.
Imponderables
An inspiring campaign this is certainly not, although it is still most interesting.
Information and knowledge
In 1973 BBC radio broadcast ten conversations between the polymath Jacob Bronowski and his colleague George Steedman.
The Nicaraguan elections
Our syndicated columnist, the Latin American specialist, Andrés Oppenheimer, opined on Sunday that the Organization of American States (OAS) electoral observation mission in Nicaragua “made a bad mistake by not offering a more comprehensive view in its first statements about the Nicaraguan election” held on November 6 last.
Remittances and poverty alleviation
The Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR) of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) meets today, marking its fifth year of operations and bringing together key players and partner institutions in the field of remittances and migration from around the world.
Reactions to global economic turmoil
It seems that the real shock that has hit the larger countries of the globe now facing economic turmoil, is the continuing nature of the economic crisis that came on in December 2007.
The UG students and the presidential candidates
There was much hype and high-spiritedness inside the University of Guyana’s George Walcott Lecture Theatre on Thursday.
The dubious Grow More Food campaign
For various reasons governments in this part of the world tend to escape rigorous scrutiny of the judiciousness of their expenditure on behalf of the public.