Editorial

Colonial statues

The Black Lives Matter movement has been the inspiration for the toppling of statues all over the western world.

Standing up to China

Prime Minister Trudeau’s rejection of a deal with China over the detention of two Canadians has lent a significant twist to the extradition battle over Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

Keith Lowenfield

This must be a first in the world.  It cannot have happened in any other democracy that a Chief Election Officer could arrogate to himself the power to decide which votes he would count in a general election and which he wouldn’t.

Rock bottom

“…When you want something bad enough to steal//That’s rock bottom//When you feel you’ve have had it up to here//’Cause you mad enough to scream but you sad enough to tear [cry]//That’s rock bottom…” American rapper Eminem’s angst was not political.

The Tank Man

Early in the morning of June 4, 1989, Chinese troops rolled into Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and crushed a rising tide of students’ protests which had begun a few weeks earlier in mid-April.

Key state agencies are prisoners of political crowding

By making public the fact that it has now moved the country’s agriculture sector to the top of its agenda (ahead of tourism) in terms of targeting foreign investment for the country, the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), the country’s national investment and export promotion agency, has paraded its credentials for leading rather than following, insofar as setting an agenda for the country’s foreign investment pursuits in the period ahead is concerned.

Battling COVID-19

Months into the arrival of the Coronavirus pandemic here, the courage and determination showed by health workers on the frontline cannot be spoken enough of.

‘Another tedious challenge’

In what must be seen as an act of desperation, Sophia resident Ms Eslyn David filed an application in the Appeal Court on June 18 seeking to prevent Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield from submitting his final report to the Elections Commission.

A cautionary tale

In December 2019 the Philippines’ ‘trial of a decade’ ended with a judge handing down life sentences to members of a powerful political clan for their roles in a 2009 massacre in the southern province of Maguindanao.

Hard road to travel

In a short time, Guyana will begin a fresh cycle of the political tug of war falsely proclaimed as governance that at this point could well be never ending.

The ultimate aphrodisiac

It was during the late 1980s, in an interview on one of the BBC Radio international current affairs programmes that the former USA Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whilst dissecting some developing international crisis, declared, “… that power was the ultimate aphrodisiac…”       What is it about power that drives persons to pursue it with total reckless abandon?

COVID-19 and `fraud, bribery, theft and other criminal practices’ in the region

Last Wednesday, with a bluntness that some may regard as diplomatically indelicate, Common-wealth Secretary General, Baroness Patricia Scotland asserted that in the midst of the various COVID-19 emergencies that have arisen here in the Caribbean, we can expect the occurrence of instances of unwholesome opportunism amongst those in our midst whose sensitivities are finely tuned to recognize and extract exploitative advantage from circumstances of  challenge and tragedy. 

Mr Lowenfield’s report

One by one the masks are coming off. First, it was the District Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo who tried to fix the election in favour of APNU+AFC by casting aside Statements of Poll and inflating and deflating figures according to his whims.

Walter Rodney

Tomorrow will mark forty years since the assassination of Dr Walter Rodney in a car parked outside the Georgetown prison.

Eighty-four thousand

When the results of the General and Regional Elections are finally announced at the culmination of the processes following the recount of votes, hopefully in the very near future, it will be difficult, if not impossible to put behind us all of the shenanigans that delayed and disrupted what should have been a smooth process.

To play or not to play

Yesterday, a private charter carrying twenty-five West Indian cricketers arrived in Manchester for the start of their 2020 Tour of England.

The COVID-19 storm is not over

On June 1, it was announced that the City Mall at  Camp and Regent streets had been re-opened for business ahead of the June 3 expiration of the national COVID-19 measures.

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