Opinion

Dear Editor, Pakistan has just finished defeating Australia by a huge margin in the second of two test matches, the first of which Pakistan also dominated.

Dear Editor, It is important that a, response be made to Sunday’s Kaieteur News’ cartoon and “The Baccoo Speaks” (KN:14th October, 2018).

Dear Editor, The 2012-2016 Country Programme Evaluation report for Guyana is out, and the IDB wasted no time outlining the lethargic and slothful pace of project implementation by the current administration.

Dear Editor, First workers’ severance was referred to ignominiously as ‘haemorrhaging the economy”.

Dear Editor, The President’s power must not be unlimited. These are quotes from the 6-1 majority decision of CCJ,  that  Act No 17 of 2001 of Guyana’s Constitution was validly enacted. 

Dear Editor, I would like to say a thank you to some Guyana Fire Service members.

A report just published by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns, with unusual candour, that unless global warming is drastically reduced by 2030, our climate will undergo a wide array of catastrophic disruptions.

Dear Editor, Family and community play an important role in molding children which will directly impact any society as a whole therefore it’s important that families be supported to prevent child abuse and keep children safe within their own homes and communities. 

Dear Editor, Yvonne Sam’s letter in SN of October 13, 2018 `Who is listening to the male cry’ was a most poignant plea (as it could come from a mother for a son who needs help).

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) saw in yesterday’s dailies a full-page advertisement by the Ministry of Finance informing that the Minister Winston Jordan would be seeking Parliamentary approval for monies to settle the outstanding severance payments to the thousands of sugar workers the Government laid off since it came to office.

Dear Editor, I do not want to start an inter-county war, but the inordinately high disparity between the cost for crossing a car over the Berbice Bridge (now proposed at over $8,000) versus the $200 being paid for the Demerara Bridge is now over-bearingly obvious….and

Dear Editor, As I observe the latest hullabaloos over conflicts, integrity commissions, disclosures and that dysfunctional family tree, I ponder again as to why so many, sometimes, make life complicated and difficult. 

 Dear Editor, The United  Nations has designated October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Accidental deaths in the gold mining industry in Guyana have been a steady occurrence over the years due to very questionable and highly risky operational methods, and a non-observance of proper Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practices.

Dear Editor, Another Tuesday, another statutory meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission.

Dear Editor, I would like to draw the government’s attention to the plight of school children in the Rupununi.

Dear Editor, The Government is now on a campaign of distributing filaricides described as Mass Drug Administration (MDA) by the World Health Organization.

Dear Editor, Guyanese recently woke up to the news of another jailbreak.

Dear Editor, On October 2, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi a distinguished journalist walked into the Consulate of Saudi Arabia in Turkey but never came out again.