Editorial

Just over a decade after President Janet Jagan and opposition leader Desmond Hoyte signed the Herdmanston Accord at the northern end of New Garden Street in Georgetown on 17 January 1998, President Bharrat Jagdeo and forty social partners agreed to the Bourda Accord at the Office of the President at the southern end of the same street on 12 March 2008.

A recent comment, and an apparently negative decision by the newly-elected Prime Minister of Jamaica, Mr Bruce Golding give pause for thought on the trajectory of the regional integration movement.

Even forty years after civil rights pioneers like Dr King opened up the political landscape for black America, racial injustice is a subject that is mostly taboo.

April 9 will mark 15 years since the shocking, unsolved murder of Monica Reece and the dumping of her body on Main Street.

It was the issue of the withdrawal of government advertisements from the Stabroek News which highlighted the lack of autonomy in local government once again.

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Soon after the Speaker of the National Assembly Mr Hari Narayen ‘Ralph’ Ramkarran called for “a high degree of national unity in order to bring criminals to justice,” and after pointing out that poverty was one of the main root causes of crime, he was roundly contradicted by his colleagues in the People’s Progressive Party-Civic.

A huge rock concert on the Colombia-Venezuela border has signaled the end of the apparent threat of military conflict which seemed to overshadow the relations between the three countries over the last few weeks.

The federal wiretaps that led to the resignation of New York governor Eliot Spitzer have been a godsend for the US media.

The second meeting of the national stakeholders with President Jagdeo at the Office of the President on March 12 produced the following agreements: i) Establish as a matter of urgency a new parliamentary standing sectoral committee on national security; ii) Expedite the appointment of the six constitutional commissions “which are key features of the governance framework within 90 days”; iii) Activate the parliamentary constitutional reform committee; iv) Ensure the effective participation of civil society in these parliamentary processes; v) Explore a mechanism for the continuation of the national stakeholders forum.

There is lunacy abroad. Leaving aside for the time being the fact that it was a hard-working wife and mother who never did anyone harm that was murdered last Monday, just which criminal madman or band of madmen decided that gunning down Mrs Marcyn King would help the society – or even some group or groups within the society?

Superwoman is alive and well, overworked, underpaid and mostly unappreciated and she should not expect her circumstances to change.

Had Mr Bharrat Jagdeo not been president, and had the security situation not been so severe, his utterances on the recent cataclysmic criminal events might have been ignored.

As we reported in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, the PPP/C government’s ads boycott of Stabroek News is now approaching 16 months and shows no sign of ending.

At their annual meeting last weekend in the Bahamas, Heads of Government of Caricom indicated their increasing sensitivity to the rising levels of crime in virtually all member-states.

Samantha Power, a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, recently made the headlines when the Scotsman newspaper quoted her saying that Senator Clinton is “a monster .

Samantha Power, a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, recently made the headlines when the Scotsman newspaper quoted her saying that Senator Clinton is “a monster .

As we reported in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, the PPP/C government’s ads boycott of Stabroek News is now approaching 16 months and shows no sign of ending.

As we reported in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, the PPP/C government’s ads boycott of Stabroek News is now approaching 16 months and shows no sign of ending.

While there is no country on the continent which can afford not to denounce Colombia’s violation of Ecuador’s territory in pursuit of FARC’s number two man, Raúl Reyes, there must have been at least one or two Latin leaders who indulged themselves with the private thought that had they been in President Uribe’s shoes they too might have done what he did.