Commentary

Using the law to settle political scores is a tactic often employed by authoritarian governments and their leaders, which we hope is not what is happening in Guyana. It has no place in liberal democracy. Last week, Keith Lowenfield, Guyana’s...

I have written about CARICOM’s trading relations with the countries in the Western Hemisphere (USA, Canada and Latin America), the region’s natural trading partners. Recent reports in the international and local media about the Organization of...

The recent unrelenting wave of homicides in Jamaica highlights the country’s crisis of crime and the need for the Holness administration to demonstrate that it still has a viable toolkit for addressing the problem now that the court has halted...

Last Wednesday, an ugly incident unfolded in Seaview Gardens. Police arrived at a party in full swing while a curfew was supposed to be in effect. The curfew hours are from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., but the party organisers had the audacity to start...

Nobody should be surprised at the widespread dissatisfaction surrounding this year’s Caribbean Examination Council examinations. First of all, the virus disturbed the timing and rhythm of both the preparation and administration of the tests. After...

Five years of study in a field, doing practicals and internships, then finally being adjudged by persons more qualified than you on multiple examinations finally gives you the official recognition that you have crossed the barrier, which finally...

In 1706, the congregation of a Puritan church in Boston bought an African as a present for their pastor, Cotton Mather. You might think that an upstanding man of the cloth would have rejected that inhumane gift. He did not. Christian piety is...

It would be surprising, and something bordering incompetence, if the education ministry couldn’t match a national and school-by-school performance in this year’s Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) CAPE and CSEC exams against pre-exam predictions....

While travelling through the streets of old Spanish Town, visitors are greeted by the echoes of a city slowly decaying with the passage of time. Less than a decade ago, the town was labelled the ‘Valley of Death’ due to the flare-up of violence....

Last Saturday, I attended a church service in Mandeville; inspectors from the Ministry of Health were there, ensuring that the spacing between seated guests met their standards (two in a 20-foot pew); and they hovered over the dinner reception...

In the absence of more substantial and better-reasoned arguments to the contrary, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes stands on firmly logical grounds in his call for an increased use of bench trials, or trial with judges alone, to help prevent a backlog of...

The marathon five-month stand-off that held Guyana in limbo leaves lingering questions regarding the soundness and stability of the country’s political environment. The country can breathe a collective sigh of relief, and the new government get on...