As President Obama proceeds through the first quarter of his second term he has found himself coming to terms with the unexpected turmoil in Ukraine that has almost sidelined the civil war in Syria, and what is expected to be a normalization of Iran’s relations with the Western world, issues that dominated the first year of the term.
Joyce Lewis and Yvonne Adams both lived alone, Lewis in North Ruimveldt and Adams in Linden.
Very early into his 2014 budget presentation, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh expressed great pride that the country had experienced eight consecutive years of GDP growth with last year’s being 5.2%.
Education is the one area above all others where there should be no political wrangling; after all, the issues which have to be confronted in relation to it are purely technical or professional in character, not political.
Few issues highlight the political differences between modern nations more starkly than their attitudes towards the death penalty.
El Salvador has a new president-elect, former guerilla commander, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the party founded by Marxist revolutionaries from the 1980-1992 civil war.
Late last week, eight research grants were awarded to teams of academic staff at the University of Guyana.
The euphoria, particularly in official circles in Western Europe, as well as, though perhaps less so, in the United States, over the eviction of President Yanukovich from Ukraine, now seems more tempered than two weeks ago.
It was only after the minibus had made its third unexpected stop en route to Georgetown from the East Coast that one of its long-suffering passengers essayed a protest.
In last Monday’s editorial `Pass this bill’ Stabroek News argued that it was time for the groups in Parliament to reach a compromise on the passage of the anti-money laundering bill as there was a growing risk of financial sanctions hitting the ordinary woman and man.
In the halcyon days when a true socialist lived modestly and the word capitalist carried disparaging overtones, democracy was regarded as the path to political righteousness.
In 2012, during the London Olympics, the Globe theatre invited foreign theatre companies to perform every one of Shakespeare’s 37 plays in different languages.
With the Venezuelan political crisis continuing to fester, Union of South American Nations (Unasur) foreign ministers agreed in Chile, last week, to travel to Caracas to “accompany, support and advise” the dialogue process initiated by President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
At the beginning of this month, we reported on questions raised by sustainable development advocate Mr Sydney Allicock with regard to the use of pesticides and fertilisers in the Rupununi by the Santa Fe mega-farm, which is growing rice among other crops.
Caricom Heads met in St Vincent and the Grenadines for their 25th InterSessional meeting with a call from outgoing Chairperson Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar advising her colleagues of the necessity to “take the tough decisions and fulfil our obligations”; and incoming Chairperson and host Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves advising his colleagues that whatever the deficiencies of the Caricom Secretariat, “the implementation deficit has to be put squarely at the level of national governments.”
This year, political events in Egypt have had to yield most of the international media limelight to more pressing global occurrences like the conflict and the diplomacy attending the intractable power struggle in Syria and the more recent East-West face-off over the Crimea.
Enough. It is time that the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill is passed by the National Assembly.
This country is not good at systems. Thinking is not just short term but also fragmented, and when the inevitable consequences of a disorganized or incoherent approach make themselves apparent, procrastination seems to be the preferred response.
South Africa’s recent expulsion of three Rwandan diplomats for their involvement in the murder and attempted murder of political dissidents is yet another troubling instance of President Kagame’s willingness to use violence to silence his critics.
Hemispheric and regional reactions to the situation in Venezuela have taken an intriguing turn.
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