Editorial: Many times, the innocent suffer the consequences
Yesterday, we had not one, not two, but three news items in The Daily OBSERVER relating to serious road accidents. In two of those incidents someone died and i...
Editorials
Editorial: What was the plan for the new water?
It struck us as odd that the Cabinet was unaware that the substandard, aging water distribution network plays a significant factor in our water woes. We covere...
Editorial: A real head-scratcher
At water-coolers and in break rooms all around St. John’s, in boardrooms and supermarkets, in offices and on street corners, the shocking Food and Agriculture ...
EDITORIAL: To feed the multitude
It will be the need of the hour! We’re talking about the quest for food! Here, there and everywhere, mankind will be faced with food shortages, with demand far...
All’s not well in citizensville!
The cartoon in yesterday’s DAILY OBSERVER and the editorial, HALLOWEEN COME EARLY, from that same issue, said it all: a down-and-dirty race to the very bottom ...
Editorial: Halloween come early
Remember when the government said that everyone was making a mountain out of a molehill when Canada revoked our visa-free travel status? Steadroy “Cutie” Benj...
Editorial: For whom the bell tolls
Another day, and another death under unusual circumstances. This time it was the discovery of a decomposing body in an abandoned building on St. George’s Stree...
Editorial: Taking all his marbles
It does not portend well for the future - the notion of the United States retreating into a shell from its leadership position in the world. Yet, this is exact...
EDITORIAL: Our forty acres and a mule
In an attempt to atone for and rectify the enslavement, mistreatment and outright murder of generations of African-Americans, the United States government agre...
EDITORIAL: No green light on crime!
The news coming across the wires was not good. Indeed, it was downright scary! Apparently, Dr. Anike Anthony was accosted by an armed carjacker at a stoplight ...