Editorial

Minister Robeson Benn is rampaging along the reserves with the zeal born of a mission in life.

In ‘Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution,’ the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman imagines the ideal response of the United States government to the challenges of global climate change.

Roads are being paved, water is flowing in the pipes, the tassa drummers and rhythm sections are turning up the volume and the political temperature is rising in Trinidad and Tobago.

According to a report published in today’s edition of this newspaper and based on information provided by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon at his post-cabinet press briefing yesterday, the government has begun to clean up Georgetown.

A scheduled meeting of the BRICs – Brazil, Russia, India, China, the countries recognized by the Western world as at the top of the pile of so-called emerging economies – took place last Thursday, April 15.

Ganja – cannabis sativa – has been embedded in local folklore and celebrated in the shanto ‘Ganjamani’ for generations, from the days of indentured immigration, as a popular narcotic.

If it does yield 154 mw of relatively clean and environmental friendly energy, the Amaila Falls hydro project would indeed provide a platform to catapult the economy by taking care of repressed and developing power demand while at the same time drastically reducing dependence on fossil fuels.

The authorities have been tiptoeing around the Sangeeta Persaud issue as if they expected a bomb to be detonated underneath them at any moment.

After some four inches of rainfall between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, Georgetown was swamped – yet again.

To the surprise of many, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning has called a snap election.

It would appear that child abuse has different definitions depending on where you live in the world.

Almost two decades since the effective collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the United States and  Russia, now much reduced in physical size and geopolitical outreach, have signed an agreement designed to continue their original pursuit, first agreed between President Reagan and President  Gorbachev in December 1987, of a persistent reduction of nuclear weapons.

The nexus between narco-trafficking and murders is unquestionable. In certain cases, according to comments made to this newspaper by Head of the Police Criminal Investigation Department Assistant Commissioner Seelall Persaud, some ‘execution-murders’ have been “drug-related.”

On Thursday evening as he pondered his problems under a shed near his Mon Repos business place, a gunman walked up to 41-year-old Rajendra Sonilal and mercilessly pumped four bullets into him.

While press releases flutter down about one or another aspect of the tourist industry from time to time, one is still left to wonder whether there is any coherent, integrated policy in relation to it.

The World’s Most Dangerous Place for Women, a BBC documentary, recently followed a 23-year-old Congolese girl returning home to parents who had sent her away as a baby to live in the safety of the United Kingdom.

On Tuesday, the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, formally confirmed what had hitherto been the UK’s worst kept secret: that the country would be going to the polls on May 6.

Every day persons consciously take the decision to drink copious amounts of alcohol and then get behind the wheels of vehicles.

In what must be an unprecedented decision in our region, the High Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court system has, one year after the general elections in Antigua and Barbuda, declared the results in three seats held by the government party invalid, including that of the Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer.

It was predictable that the US Department of State’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report released on March 1, would be critical of the Government of Guyana’s counter-narcotics performance during 2009.