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#WhatAboutOurGirls?
The ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ campaign is unsurprisingly trending here. We are expressing our outrage on social media, sharing countless images that have gone viral and organising vigils in support of the...
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Change you can believe in?
With his recent elevation, new acting Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud has tried to signal that change was coming to the Guyana Police Force (GPF), promising improved accountability for unlawful...
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The evidence of torture is staring us right in the face
Under customary international law, Guyana is obligated to prevent torture, and this obligation exists whether we would have signed the UN Convention against torture or attached any reservations.
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Whither President’s College?
It’s no secret that the quality of education being offered at President’s College has deteriorated. This institution that once encouraged an education of character has been reduced to very little, or,...
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Freedom to discriminate
The following is a guest column addressing LGBT rights in light of recent public statements: Two weeks ago, the Vice-Chairman of the Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO), Pastor Ronald McGarrell, went on...
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The gay agenda
Last month, I travelled to Buxton to stand in solidarity with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community as they protested the detention of a 15-year-old who was locked up following a...
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The right to equality
The issue of gay equality remains unresolved and contentious here despite the vigorous efforts of activists and supporters to promote a more open and equal society.
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The inequality of life
Killed on a city street in our capital while committing a robbery earlier this week, Kevin Fields achieved the kind of notoriety in death that he seemed determined to attain during his young life.
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Pause
By Andre Haynes, Guest Contributor If the AFC has its way, we could soon find ourselves facing new general elections a lot earlier than expected.
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Reparations are owed
It has been over a century and a half since slavery was abolished in the Caribbean, but the wide-ranging consequences of one of the most oppressive and intolerable institutions in human history...
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A major distraction
Within a relatively short time, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and its messy internal politics have become a major distraction in the country, which is an unfortunate development at a...
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Lessons from Ferguson
Ferguson, Missouri’s response to the shooting of teenager Michael Brown mirrors a similar narrative that unfolded here when three unarmed protestors were gunned down at Linden just over two years ago.
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Helping our mentally ill
With little or no comment, persons with mental illnesses are being fed into our badly overcrowded prison system and health authorities appear to be making no attempt to correct this situation.
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Single parent initiatives should be reviewed
By Guest Contributor Life for the average Guyanese parent, and especially the thousands of single- parent mothers left to struggle because fathers opt not to honour their obligations, remains a struggle.
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A call to action on our suicide crisis
Just days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) named Guyana as the country with the highest estimated suicide rate for 2012 globally, the findings of a local study were released and together they...
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Enemy of the state
This week, I found myself reflecting on my journalistic career and the toxic nature of the relationship that develops between the independent press in Guyana and our government, particularly within the...
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A long way to go
Guyana has a long way to go in regards to respecting the rights of the child and ending violence against our children, according to a recent United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) study, which found...
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Trivialising rape
Last month, a young woman came forward to share a horrific report of being drugged then brutally raped by three men at a business in Mahdia where she had worked.
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‘Because we care’
Something happened earlier this year which reminded me that government policy and programmes are not for all of us. I went to the Ministry of Housing to check on my land application and, as was the...
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We are all fair game
Continuing its recent attacks on the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), the PPP is currently waging a public campaign against the recent hiring of Richard Francois as the commission’s Public...
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Suspects and criminals have rights too - For De Record
The spectre of extra-judicial killings continues to cast a wide shadow over a significant number of recent police shootings, which have left several young men—mostly from deprived communities— dead....
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Victims of violence
The words “child abuse,” with their unsettling overtones of physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment of a child, are triggers for rage. The article Victims of violence appeared first on Stabroek News.
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The lost boy
Although at 13 he was indicted for murders committed during massacres at Lusignan and Bartica, Dwane Williams was just a blip on the public’s radar until the recent High Court trial where he went from...
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Wanted: A ministerial code
Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar recently sacked her Minister of the People and Social Development Dr Glenn Ramdharsingh for his inappropriate behaviour towards an attendant...
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A convenient crusade
Education Minister Priya Manickchand, facing a barrage of criticism for the CN Sharma remark she made in Parliament last week, questioned when it is a convenient time to expose rape and paedophilia....
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Robbing our athletes of a real fighting chance
The declining standards of our performances in sports was put into sharp focus when the team we prepared for the London 2012 Olympics returned following a poor showing – the reality was apparently so...
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Out of line, not out of context
The political landscape of this country has for some time now been a theatre for acerbic insults and narrow-mindedness. The article Out of line, not out of context appeared first on Stabroek News.
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City Council has become a national joke
Some years ago in conversation with a colleague I had referred to City Council as an “archaic and useless body” that exists to furnish us with laughs, and one that also serves as a useful model of how...
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