Editorial

Accountability is the new buzzword in international development circles, the World Bank says in a new book it launched earlier this week.

Though the United States intervention in Pakistan to obliterate Osama bin Laden dominated news of the continuing UN cum NATO other intervention in Libya, the situation in that country has maintained its prominence.

Last week’s undertaking by Mayor Hamilton Green to exhaust “all avenues” to find a solution to the city council’s never-ending financial dilemma would probably have gone unnoticed among a sizeable portion of city dwellers.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds took exception to the lead story in Thursday’s edition of SN headlined `Motilall sold Amaila licence to Sithe’ which reported on the revelation at a public forum on March 11 of the transaction.

Earlier this month the English-speaking world celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of the Authorised Version of the Bible.

In the Caribbean, where nature’s destructive power is never a distant memory, governments often seem ill-equipped and under-prepared for the consequences of hurricanes, earthquakes, fires and floods.

As if Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar did not have enough problems on Tuesday, having to sack her Minister of Planning, Economic and Social Restructuring and Gender Affairs, Mary King, for her involvement in the awarding of a government contract to a company owned by Mrs King’s family, potentially damaging revelations about the behaviour of another member of her Cabinet emerged that same day in London.

It was revealed this week that immigration officials in Trinidad and Tobago had been seeking and finding illegal Chinese immigrants who are being used to provide free labour at casinos, supermarkets, restaurants and private members’ clubs.

The approval by the recent Congress of the Cuban Communist Party of a continuation, and perhaps enhancement, of plans for redirection of the economy, has confirmed that President Raul Castro is committed to ending what is a continuing stasis in economic production and growth.

Last week the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) issued a statement on Mr.

The 2010 report of the Fire Advisory Board established by the Ministry of Home Affairs was tabled in the National Assembly on April 28.

In our edition of April 27 we reported that Stabroek News together with Kaieteur News had been cited by the Ethnic Relations Commission for “unacceptable” statements made in articles and a letter which had been published in the two newspapers last year.

Nobody who visited New York or Washington in the aftermath of 9/11 will forget the shock and horror of that day. 

On Monday, a Honduran special appeals court panel annulled two charges of corruption brought against former President Manuel Zelaya after the coup that deposed him in June 2009.

A world population report released this past Tuesday by the United Nations, predicts that the world’s population will reach 10 billion around 2081; that’s in another 70 years.

Discussion seems to be growing in Trinidad & Tobago about what is perceived as an unwelcome degree of instability in decision-making in Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s People’s Partnership Government.

At the risk, perhaps, of provoking yet another of Mr. Khurshid Sattaur’s now familiar tirades against the Stabroek News, we again enquire into the status of his promised enquiry into the Vega Azurit cocaine trafficking incident made more than a month ago.

What exactly political advisors to the President do is a bit of a mystery – at least in this country.

No one would have noticed, but April 18 was the International Day for Monuments and Sites.

Nothing has been seen or heard of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei since his detention at Beijing Airport early this month for unspecified “economic crimes.”