Opinion

Georgetown flood

As Georgetowners sloshed around in the water last Wednesday, they must have wondered whether it might be worth investing in a wooden boat and paddles, rather than a Toyota or a Hyundai, given that flooding is becoming such a regular feature of existence.

How is Ramotar’s statement to be reconciled with the matter of police meals on Election Day?

Dear Editor, I really don’t believe everything I read in the newspapers or hear in the electronic media, so if I was not present I would have been hard pressed to reconcile President Ramotar’s remark that where the rule of law is concerned there are no sacred cows, with the recent revelation that some $90M which was allocated for meals during the 2011 elections was not spent on that line item. 

Better the devil you know?

At the beginning of the week, the news from Havana was that Cuban surgeons had completely removed a lesion from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and that he was in good physical condition and in direct contact with his government in Caracas.

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