Editorial

Globally, the fisheries industry, inclusive of aquaculture, had a total value of US$217.5 billion in 2010.

Amid dissatisfaction on the part of the host government, Sri Lanka, in the face of criticisms of its human rights record, the Commonwealth met last week at another of its biennial meetings, the last of which was held in Austraila.

Despite all of the pre-summit brouhaha over the Sri Lankan Government’s dubious human rights record the final communiqué issued at the end of the gathering in Colombo uttered not a word about the issue that had dominated the international headlines.

Considering the depth and age of the debate for best procurement practices and good governance, it is appalling that the government has embarked on a Memorandum of Understanding for what could be a US$30M waste recycling plant in such a flawed manner.

The Ministry of Home Affairs can bluster as much as it pleases; nothing demonstrated the shortcomings of the police more clearly than the events in Middle Street on Tuesday. 

Earlier this week NASA released a photograph taken from the Cassini probe as it completed an orbit around Saturn.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is this weekend playing in his 150th Test match, the only West Indian to do so.

Tuesday afternoon’s shooting to death of four people by an unhinged man who subsequently also died by way of a bullet was not something that one ever imagined would have been associated with Guyana.

During the last few weeks, the attention of the Jamaican population has been riveted on a contest for the leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party, brought on by the decision of Deputy Leader and former Minister of Finance, Audley Shaw, to challenge the incumbent Political Leader and Leader of the Opposition, Andrew Holness.

A decade or so of the use of drones as a tool in the targeted killing of persons deemed to be terrorists has provided considerable enlightenment on US pursuit of its interests in the post-Cold War era.

After months of rhetoric and bickering on the anti-money laundering bill, the political leaders who have been elected to run this country’s affairs finally delivered on Thursday night.

Like some other countries on this continent Guyana is a partial democracy, but without the populism which characterizes their forms of government.

Every West Indian who visits Toronto should make the time to observe the marvel of self-imposed order that emerges each afternoon among the GO train commuters at Union Station.

Just over a year ago, our interest was piqued by  the peace process initiated by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos with his country’s revolutionary Marxist-Leninist guerrillas, the FARC, in which Cuba and Norway were playing key mediating roles (October 26, 2012, Colombia and the FARC).

The pattern of a preponderance of girls among the hi-flyers at the National Grade Six Assessment along with the Caribbean Examination Council’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) as well as the 3,000-odd annual graduates of the University of Guyana is a possible indication of the balance of the sexes in Guyana.

For many years, with the exception of its relations with revolutionary clerical Iran, the United States has had a diplomatic dominance in relation to developments in the Middle East that for years has almost made that area seem a privileged preserve.

China continues to attract international attention mostly for the right reasons, not least, the phenomenal growth of the country’s economy which has seen Beijing’s aggressive excursion into ambitious global economic diplomacy initiatives that has witnessed a combination of billions of dollars in development projects and investments – primarily in forestry, minerals, oil and gas – in regions as far apart as Africa and the Caribbean.

Amid the political stalemate, rampant crime, the squalor of the city and the dire state of the sugar industry the news about rice output has provided welcome relief.

We are coming up to the Christmas season and the central government has decided in its wisdom to inflict on the city another of its periodic garbage crises, this time primarily in the Bourda and Stabroek Markets areas where citizens purchase their food (among many other commodities). 

A generation ago the New York Times was for most Americans, and for a large foreign readership, the final arbiter of the news that was “fit to print.”