Editorial

Watching Burundi unravel

In 1994 the Rwandan genocide set in motion a chain of events that culminated in a decade-long regional war that cost five million lives.

Housing deficit

There is a housing crisis in Guyana. This is obvious even from a cursory look around, which would reveal families squatting in one-room shacks on government reserves in areas like Plastic City.

United States presidential elections

With American presidential elections due in November this year, the preliminary stages of candidates facing what are described as primary elections within their own parties, are beginning to come to a climax, as the various pretenders to the throne are winnowed out, or voluntarily leave the race.

Honeymoon well and truly over

It would have been naïve, to say the least, to expect that with the very best of intentions the APNU+AFC administration would not have – sooner or later – begun to encounter its very own political banana skins and that those would not have given rise to the need for the coalition to confront those attendant challenges.

Damage to government

It has taken just 11 months for the APNU+AFC administration to stumble badly on accountability and good governance and, importantly, in relation to two of its senior officials: the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon and the Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence.

Ministry of the Presidency

It was former Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon who transformed his post into one of considerable power.

Panama in Iceland

After almost a year of poring over the 11.5 million documents which constitute the Panama Papers — the largest leak of sensitive data in history — news outlets around the world are confirming many of our worst fears about the global network of offshore tax havens.

Brazil’s chaotic situation

Reports from neighbouring Brazil indicate that the congressional opposition is gaining momentum in its bid to garner 342 votes in the Chamber of Deputies to approve the formal initiation of the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff on April 17.

One in 12

One in every 12 people in the Americas, 62 million and counting, are currently living with diabetes.

Cricket, politics, regionalism

It must, by now, be quite obvious to listeners last Sunday, that Darren Sammy, the West Indies T20 Cricket captain could not, with such a large population hearing him, and at a high point of personal and team success, contain himself from forthright public criticism of the West Indies Cricket Board.

A reminder that our cricket matters

Sunday was one of those rare days in Caribbean cricket that will go down as truly unforgettable; the West Indies captured the two ICC World T20 men and women’s titles, (to go along with the T20 Under-19 title won just a few weeks ago).

Business advisor fiasco

No matter what explanations are provided by the Minister of State Joseph Harmon over his farcical appointment of Mr Brian Tiwari as a Business Advisor to the government, the damage has already been done.

Councillor Harding

Politicians live in a different dimension from the rest of us, which is why they are frequently incapable of relating their actions to their words, or of following through on matters of principle.

Normalization

As was made clear in Wednesday’s editorial, President Barack Obama’s visits last week to Cuba and Argentina could be said to have had as their overriding objective the “normalization of relations” between the USA and those two countries.

Drugs and contraband in prison

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) notwithstanding, the pervasiveness of drugs in Guyana’s prisons point to a deterioration in the running of penal institutions that will be extremely difficult to remedy.

Obama in the hemisphere

In what will probably be his last visit to our hemisphere before he leaves the presidency of the United States, President Obama chose two countries with which his country has sought to normalize relations, Cuba and Argentina.

Local government and community development

The significance of the recently concluded local government elections is unlikely to become fully apparent for some time yet, even though the fact that after more than two decades we have, at last, been able to pull off a local government poll is in itself an accomplishment.

Parliament adjournment

Now that the APNU+AFC government has begun to release the reports of audits into state corporations and other entities, it is all the more indefensible that a 56-day hiatus in Parliamentary sittings has been set.

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