Opinion

It has become distressingly obvious, as the 2020 oil production deadline draws inexorably closer, that the current administration has placed agriculture squarely on the back burner.

Dear Editor, Yesterday was World Polio Day. This year’s theme was ‘End Polio Now’. 

Dear Editor, Irregular Tuesday at  GECOM today. No statutory meeting. The Chief Election Officer (CEO) is again unavailable, reminiscent of his unavailability on Nomination Day.

Dear Editor, The newly appointed Police Commissioner, Leslie James D.S.S. D.S.M.

Dear Editor, The recent escape of three inmates from the Lusignan prison and the subsequent riot that resulted in 10 prisoners being injured by rubber bullets and live rounds used by security officers who were called out to quell the uprising, have once again brought to the fore the challenges facing Guyana in its overcrowded prisons and poorly managed penal system.

Dear Editor, As I absorb the anxieties and outrage generated by the proposed toll hikes for the Berbice Bridge, I ask: what else is in store? 

It is disgusting, unhealthy and beyond disappointing that the Public Health Ministry could in this day and age be storing anything in spaces that are unsuitable and less than scrupulously well maintained.

Dear Editor, Let me begin by thanking Stabroek News for publishing my letter in your Sunday 21st Oct edition on the Berbice Bridge. 

Dear Editor, In 2008, while I still worked in cricket, there was a trial match at Bourda, Sewnarine Chattergoon walked out to bat in short pants, the journalist seated next to me in the Cricket Board’s viewing gallery, shouted down “Disgraceful!

The dispatches from the Asian sub-continent of the current West Indies tour have not been good, in fact they have very depressing to say the least.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to the Stabroek News editorial of 21st October, titled `Filariasis questions’.

Dear Editor, Commissioners representing the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) have embarked on a concerted plan to undermine the work of GECOM by raising in the public sphere, their version of developments at meetings of the Commission, whether they be statutory or special.

Dear Editor, Our politicians have to be careful about what they are saying lest they reinforce the belief that for them politics is about raw, naked power and self-aggrandisement and the only time they unite and are cordial is in attending to their remuneration packages.

Dear Editor, I was fascinated and intrigued by Alim Hosein’s letter claiming that Creolese is a language and not a dialect. 

Dear Editor, To repeat the obvious, and again highlight national laundry secrets, the dirtiest, ugliest issue facing this land is the politics of race. 

Dear Editor, I have stopped listening to President Granger’s speeches to Parliament.