Editorial

Community Action Specialist Ms Rosanne Purnwasie faces a huge challenge.  She is responsible for implementing the Community Action Component of the Citizens’ Security Programme which was re-launched earlier this year by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Undoubtedly, the policies, practices and conduct of the Jagdeo administration will come under increasingly critical scrutiny and analysis as the end of its term nears, as its influence wanes and as the fear of its retributive capacity fades.

It appears that the Parliament Office is seeking to lay down a car park in the eastern portion of the Parliament Building compound.

Six years ago, while interviewing Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf for the New York Times, the journalist Chris Hedges mentioned the imam’s “Cordoba initiative, ‘a blueprint to mend the relationship between the U.S.

In the publicity for the 1975 cult classic, Rollerball, the catchphrase used to attract audiences was the sonorous and pseudo-prophetic: “In the not too distant future, wars will no longer exist, but there will be Rollerball” – an obvious allusion to the conceit that sport is war by other means or, as George Orwell famously wrote, “war minus the shooting.”

On Sunday, eight-year-old Mark Anthony Girdhari Persaud of Annandale was electrocuted when he came into contact with an illegal electricity connection.

All over the Caricom region, as reflected in media commentaries, discussion continues on the retirement of Secretary General Edwin Carrington, on the attributes which a successor should have, on the mode of choosing that successor, and on the role which a secretary general can effectively play in managing and moving along the integration movement.

Do the Minister of Home Affairs and the Commis-sioner of Police think that they have an obligation to tackle the gruesome wife murders that have been rocking rural communities this year?

Anyone au fait with the defensive measures that this government employs when it is exposed to scandal would not be surprised that Cabinet Secretary Dr Luncheon could only manage to say at his Thursday press briefing that the culpable in the Supenaam Stelling bungle had not yet been identified but that in the interim taxpayers would be the ones left out of pocket for the repairs.

All the discussions about grand coalitions among opposition parties might be a little premature.

Anyone who has recently endured the aggravations of airline travel will appreciate the tensions which erupted on last Monday’s JetBlue flight from Pittsburgh to New York.

Edwin Carrington’s announcement last week that he will declare an end to his innings as Caricom’s longest serving Secretary General is, as we suggested in Wednesday’s editorial (‘Changing of the guard at Caricom’), not altogether surprising.

In another day or two or three or so, residents of Georgetown can begin to breathe again; maybe.

Few will really be surprised at the decision of Caricom Secretary General Edwin Carrington to end his tenure at the Secretariat towards the end of this year.

Sojo Nedd, a 24-year-old mother of four, was sentenced to four years imprisonment last week after she was found guilty of trafficking in marijuana.

As harbingers of the fast approaching electoral season there were two noteworthy developments in recent weeks.

The British are more insulated from the intrigues of their politicians than is the case in a small society like Guyana, where any number of people know some of their representatives personally, and where various of them can be encountered at one watering hole or another.

Six months ago, in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, a convoy of SUVs and trucks pulled up in front of a house party.

Neither Fidel Castro nor the Cuban Revolution is in the best of shape these days, but in spite of reports of serious threats to their health, neither seems ready to give up the ghost just yet.

A member of the local magistracy has come out against the abuse of alcohol, claiming that it is the root cause of domestic violence, and stating that 100 per cent of the domestic violence cases that come before him in Berbice, where he is based, are related to alcohol.