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Common enemies of all mankind
If the allegations that Patrick Sumner, Victor Jones and David Leander were tortured can be proven, some members of the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force are likely to be in big trouble.
Learning from St Lucia
This newspaper carried a report last week about a mother in St Lucia, who was jailed for one year for failing to do anything when she was told that her daughter was being sexually abused by her grandfather.
A victory in the drug fight
The convictions secured against two of the accused in the cocaine in fish glue case constitute a small but important victory in the struggle against the drug trade.
Double standards?
In our Wednesday edition we reported that last Sunday, a minister of government entered a bar in Montrose, East Coast Demerara, at about 1 am.
Thanksgiving
On Thursday most Guyanese in America - or Guyanese Americans, as they should probably be more correctly called - whether ignorant of or ignoring the minor fuss in our letters column about cultural erosion or cross-fertilization and copycat behaviour, would have tucked into their Thanksgiving turkey, with or without cranberry sauce, but certainly with great relish.
The wheels come off
Nothing quite characterises the contradictions in the current 'Operation Safeway' as the success in arresting hundreds of petty offenders on the one hand, and the comparative failure to arrest the spiralling toll of road fatalities, on the other.
Preparing for the Bali conference on climate change
The 13th Conference of the Parties, COP, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCC, and the 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, will be hosted by Indonesia on the island of Bali from December 3 to 14, 2007.
A sad story
There is a sad sameness to several recent rape-murders.
Ishmael Beah
When UNICEF celebrates the 18th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child today, it will appoint Ishmael Beah as an Ambassador.
The AK-47s
Now that new leadership is in place in the Guyana Defence Force the environment has been created for a fresh approach in the way the army interfaces with the public on matters of national interest.
Venezuelan incursions
On Thursday, Venezuela made incursions into Guyana's territory - again.
The General in his labyrinth
Pakistan's dramatic shift towards democracy may unseat President Pervez Musharraf, but he need not worry about the judgement of history - his manipulation of America's hectoring post 9/11 foreign policy is a lesson for the ages.
The King and Mr Chavez
Last week's 17th Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, attended by the Heads of State and Government of twenty-two countries from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, was supposed to have been all about social cohesion.
Building a safe nanotechnology future
We are living - according to some - on the brink of a nanotechnology revolution, where matter is engineered at a scale thousands of times smaller than the eye can see, and familiar materials behave in unexpected ways.
The Persaud disclosures
After months of official denial and failing memories, the Guyana Police Force unwittingly cast fresh light on the darkest period of criminal violence in this country's post-independence history.