Editorial

While the world was shocked by the assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, it could hardly have come as a surprise to anyone.

Only the worst cynics in the world do not look forward to the New Year as a time when there will be change for the better.

With all the rather more urgent issues President Jagdeo had to deal with on his return from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), in Kampala, Uganda, last month, he might be forgiven for not briefing the nation on the wider official and informal discussions taking place there about the future composition and leadership of the Commonwealth.

Stealing seines and engines from fishing vessels is one thing. Slaughtering innocent fishermen is a totally different matter.

Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes – Some have got broken – and carrying them up to the attic.

The declaration by the new Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Commodore Gary Best that there should be some closure in the investigation of the alleged torture of two Buxtonians by members of the Joint Services comes across as hollow.

The two Colombians and a Venezuelan who were held by the Guyana Police Force in connection with an airstrip near Orealla in Corentyne and other matters, were deported to their respective countries last week.

Christmas in the city is now synonymous with several things. Some are fairly recent traditions at this time of the year, like flooding.

The past month has not been too kind to President Hugo Ch

A week before winter is meant to begin, the streets of Toronto are covered with snow.

Addressing newly-commissioned military officers last week, President Bharrat Jagdeo contended correctly that, if the security challenges currently facing Guyana were not adequately addressed, they can compound the difficulties related to the economic challenges which need to be addressed.

It was just another Sunday in the South American cocaine belt when the Guyana Defence Force discovered another illegal airstrip by chance.

At a recent press freedom seminar in Jamaica, that country’s Finance Minister, Mr Audley Shaw sketched a startling picture of how serious the corruption problem in the country was.

The workings of the University of Guyana are shrouded in mystery as far as outsiders are concerned, and even the periodic flashes of publicity do little to illuminate how the institution is administered.

Taken at face value, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Incorporated’s Energy Conservation Cam-paign launched last week is an admirable step in the right direction.

Richard L Armitage was US Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005 under President George W Bush.

With the Iowa caucus barely a fortnight away, the current front-runners in this year’s US presidential campaigns make an unlikely pair.

President Bharrat Jagdeo set the intellectual tone for the administration’s present posture on piracy in the East Berbice-Corentyne Region.

Mr Abdul Kadir’s arrest earlier this year heightened widespread dread of terror attacks against targets in the western world by Islamic extremists.

Early on in his `92 administration President Cheddi Jagan expressed exasperation at the situation at the then Guyana Electricity Corporation (GEC).