Editorial

Kalamadeen questions

In its details, the abduction and savage murder of businessman Farouk Kalamadeen pose the same searing questions that the state, the government and the people have faced repeatedly since 2002.

Message?

The murder of Mr Farouk Kalamadeen marks another bloody milestone in the history of crime in this country.

Lugo, not Hugo

Paraguay does not usually feature prominently on people’s political radar screens, not even in Latin America.

Dead Poets’ Society

The recent passing of two very different regional poets, offers an opportunity to consider the diminishing role of literary culture in the contemporary Caribbean.

Haiti and Caricom in today’s world

The depth of the food crisis in Haiti draws the Caribbean into the general food crisis afflicting many parts of the world, including the affected states in the continent of Africa.

Food

The recently launched consultations by the government on the cost of living are useful insofar as they make a real attempt to gauge from the grass roots the items that produce sticker shock and the structural problems that result in undue price increases.

South American Defence Council

Colombia’s raid into Ecuadorian territory and the subsequent revelations about the files on Raúl Reyes’ computer have done more damage to President Chávez’s grand hemispheric projects than anything Washington in its wildest dreams could have conceived of.

An act of love

Vaccination Week in the Americas officially ends today. Now in its sixth year, the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) coordinated activity has pushed not only for infant immunization, but for older children and adults as well, to receive vaccines that would prevent them from contracting certain diseases.

Change at Takuba Lodge

Last week, in commenting on the surprise appointment of Carolyn Rodrigues as  Guyana’s new Foreign Minister, we raised more questions than answers about whether she would succeed in reviving the ministry and bolstering the country’s faltering image abroad.

Monkey see, monkey do

Had President Bharrat Jagdeo not been a member of the cabinet for nearly fifteen years, his latest instruction for an investigation into illegalities at the Guyana Revenue Authority’s Customs and Trade Administration would have been an impressive initiative to excise the cancer of corruption.

Are we ready for oil?

With the price of crude oil recently hovering around US$115 a barrel, the perils of our planet’s addiction to petroleum have never been clearer.

The Bells and the GRA probe

At a poorly attended consultation on governance and security recently at the Umana Yana for the poverty reduction strategy paper, the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Luncheon spoke positively of the progress that had been achieved in governance and transparency.

Dangerous dogs

Last Wednesday morning a security guard on his way to work was killed by a pack of dogs which had escaped from their yard.

Unmitigated greed

The news on the BBC on Thursday that the Spanish police had arrested 87 Nigerians in and around Madrid, suspected of defrauding thousands of people in the United States and Europe of over 20 million euros (US$31,807,929.76 or $6.4 billion) in a postal and internet lottery scam, was astounding because it should not have happened.

Darfur’s dreadful future

A few days ago, on the fifth Global Day for Darfur British prime minister Gordon Brown said “the eyes of the world are rightly focused on the millions of men, women and children in the region who continue to start each day with the fear of violence, abduction, rape or death.”

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