Ralph Ramkarran

The public has been gripped over the past few weeks by the evidence which has been emerging from the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger.

There are approximately 2,000 prisoners in the five facilities in Georgetown, New Amsterdam, Mazaruni, Lusignan and Timehri.

Being away for the past six weeks allowed me the luxury of leisurely contemplating Guyana from afar.

The performance of the British Labour Party in the elections last week has been spectacular.

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) had its annual general meeting on Wednesday last and elected a new Bar Council, the name of its executive.

This weekend Guyana celebrates the 51st Independence Anniversary, offers national awards to worthy citizens on their contributions to Guyana and welcomes the uplifting message of Ramadan.

The collapse of the Palmyra foundation structure intended to support an Indian Arrival Monument which was unveiled on Arrival Day was reported by the Stabroek News on April 27.

‘Inappropriate recusals are potentially very damaging.’ This statement begins the concluding portion of an article by Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku, Professor of Law, Brunel University, London, UK, entitled ‘Inappropriate Recusals’ in The Law Quarterly Review, April 2016.

Last week the 27-year-old Anthony Joshua dethroned 41-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion for the past 15 years. 

One of the reasons behind public executions in the past and at present was and is to demonstrate the power of the State so that citizens would be duly intimidated.

President Obama is reported to have told President-elect Trump that his biggest foreign policy issue was likely to be North Korea.

The State Asset Recovery Bill (Bill) was passed in the National Assembly on Friday last after a robust debate.

Two Fridays ago a seminar on Constitutional Reform the Process, was held at the University of Guyana.

The Guyana Chronicle, which obtained Justice Franklin Holder’s letter to the Chancellor (ag), the Hon Yonette Cummings-Edwards, complaining about the conduct of the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, the Hon Basil Williams, during the hearing of a matter in court on March 23, tried its best to obfuscate.

The judiciary is one of the three branches of government. It is a vital component of our democratic system and for this reason needs to function with a high degree of proficiency.

The campaign against the unilateral and undemocratic imposition of parking meters in Georgetown is at last bearing fruit.

Guyana has had a long history of struggle for electoral democracy.

Petronella Trotman is the name adopted by Ronnell Trotman, who is a transgender person.

The PPP unanimously decided in about 1994-5 to propose to the Select Committee on Consti-tutional Reform established by the Sixth Parliament (1992-97) that a president should serve only two terms.

The pacu is a fish related to the pirhana. The sweet water pacu has fearsome, human-like, teeth.