Editorial

The current political panorama is not of a quality to lift the electorate’s spirits.

The circus that plays out daily on our roads would be laughable were it not for the fallout.

Juan Manuel Santos was re-elected president of Colombia on Sunday in the narrowest election race in the country’s history.

Drumroll! Ring the bells. Hoist the banners. Send out the cheerleaders.

It was not so long ago, indeed during the last presidential campaign in the United States, that President Obama felt that he could congratulate himself that his decision to pull American troops out of Iraq had proven to be right; and that Iraq as a major issue in American, and indeed global foreign relations, had been removed from the limelight.

Last Saturday’s issue of the Barbados Today newspaper published an article in which it sought to discuss the nexus between the behaviour of children in that Caricom country and the quality of parenting that they receive.

Considering the depth and seriousness of the problems that have gripped the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) it defies logic that the government is proceeding with plans for a confinement building at this facility for juveniles who have had brushes with the law.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand announced the National Grade Six Assessment results on Friday, accompanied by some preliminary analysis of what the figures implied.

Last month the University of the West Indies hosted a three-day Cannabis Conference at its Mona campus, co-sponsored by UWI and the Cannabis Commercial and Medicinal Research Task Force (CCMRTF).

It has been axiomatic through the ages that history is written by the victors.

President Donald Ramotar’s statement at the press conference he held last Saturday was surprising in its candour, while at the same time raising questions that his party needs to answer.

Former commanding general of the Egyptian army Abdel Fatah el-Sisi was sworn in as President of Egypt this week following what were described as presidential elections last week.

All too frequently, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) gets itself into the news for the wrong reasons.

At his press conference on Saturday, President Ramotar spoke optimistically about the sugar industry and lauded the performance of the beleaguered Skeldon factory.

Endless column inches in the independent newspapers have been devoted to the failings of the Guyana Police Force, but the Guyana Prison Service has come under less scrutiny.

For the last fifty years, a book that may well be the most important of the twentieth century has remained largely unread.

Today marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion the world has ever seen, with 156,000 Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy, under the code name Operation Overlord.

This is shaping up to be a busy year for the Police Complaints Authority and the Office of Professional Responsibility.

The leaders of the European Union have experienced a virtual earthquake as the strength of rightwing political forces demonstrated itself in major countries like Britain and France in the recent elections to the European Parliament.

Those of us who live in the coastal regions of Guyana and who rarely if ever venture into the hinterland will, by now, be aware that the coast and the interior are, in a sense, two different worlds.