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Lethem rally
If there is one thing this election season has demonstrated, it is that we desperately need some kind of legislative reform to ensure that each party has equal opportunity during the campaign to make its case to voters and that none of them enjoys an insuperable built-in advantage to which the others do not have access.
News from nowhere
In mid-September, one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels sent a warning to the people of Nuevo Laredo.
Lest we forget
Common sense has triumphed over political correctness and bureaucracy at the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), with that much maligned body reversing its decision to ban the England football team from wearing poppies embroidered on their shirts in their friendly match against Spain tomorrow, and instead allowing them to wear a poppy on black armbands.
Clifford Carter’s suicide
Last Wednesday, three days after he had turned himself into a human torch, Clifford Carter, a father of three, died at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Palestine, Israel, Unesco and Caricom
Last week was an interesting one, though largely unnoticed, for Caribbean diplomacy.
The things we vote for
There are now less than three weeks left until polling day and there are signs of a belated national focus on a general elections campaign that took its own sweet time to generate a meaningful level of public interest.
Unfinished CLICO business
MF Global’s precipitous decline into bankruptcy last week must have jerked unpleasant memories in this region about disappearing investors’ and pension funds.
Negative campaign
The mask is off.
Greeks bearing debts
As the political drama in Greece brings the European debt crisis into sharp focus, it is clear that the consequences of a Greek default will extend much further than previously thought.
Mr Manning’s apology (?)
Whether it was inspired by the spirit of Diwali, as Trinidad and Tobago Finance Minister Winston Dookeran has facetiously speculated, or by the spirit of Halloween, as at least one blogger has unkindly remarked, former T&T prime minister Patrick Manning’s public apology to the nation has served to divide opinion there as to whether it was sincere or a calculated move with a hidden agenda.
Investigating trees
In the wee hours of Sunday morning this week, amid heavy rain and high winds, an Ite Palm tree fell on Buffer Dam, North-East La Penitence smashing a small one-bedroom home, killing a five-year-old girl and bringing untold grief to her family and relatives.
Jamaica’s new leadership
With a finesse not uncharacteristic of Jamaican politics at its higher levels, the country has seen a new, and unprecedentedly young (38), Prime Minister sworn in following Bruce Golding’s resignation.
The Arab Spring and United States Middle East foreign policy
The notable features of the so-called Arab Spring have been its suddenness, its intensity and its awesome and altogether unforeseen outcomes; three well-entrenched and seemingly secure regimes – Egypt, Tunisia and Libya – toppled in a matter of months, almost entirely – save to a considerable extent in the case of Libya – without external intervention on tides of popular domestic protest, while a fourth, Syria, seemingly edging inexorably towards ‘tipping point.
Rescuing the Guyana Cricket Board
Even though it did not produce the desired result, Guyanese, particularly sport aficionados, should be exceedingly grateful to Ms Angela Haniff whose legal action against the executive of the Guyana Cricket Board, following the latter’s thoroughly scandalous elections, has exposed the quagmire in which cricket bodies have been functioning.
Re-alignments
There has never been an election quite like it.