Opinion

Dear Editor, When one read the editorial in SN of September 7, 2018 on ‘Police and Public Trust’, one felt compelled to reflect on the issue of Trust in the whole of our public management structure.

Dear Editor, The deliberate, conscious effort we must make to choose our leaders  is absolutely critical.

Dear Editor, It was a huge pleasure to attend the Guyana High Commission (UK) Awards at the Senate House on September 15th.Well

The idea behind last week’s Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GuyTIE) event at the Marriott Hotel as far as the public/private sector organizers had said some weeks ago was, in the main, to bring together, overseas buyers and local sellers in business to business (B2B) encounters with the hoped-for outcome of expanding regional and global market access for goods and services offered here in Guyana.

Dear Editor, It is worth saying again: this is one strange place, with many hilarities on any given day. 

Dear Editor, The Government is seemingly being ‘careless’ with one of the largest, most politically sensitive industries in the country – sugar – and in some instances, unnecessarily so.

Dear Editor, I thought that this was going to be troublesome, but does everything in this country have to be this hard, this insoluble? 

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to the letter titled, `CHI provides affordable cardiac care for Guyanese, new treatment protocols have seen 10-fold drop in death rates and halving of hospital stay’.

Dear Editor, During rice harvesting and rice land preparation times, we the residents and road users are put in a precarious situation of pollution along the East Bank Essequibo roadway, particularly from Vergenoegen to Orangestein.

Dear Editor, It is with much dismay I read our Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman’s response to the possible closure of RUSAL’s operations in Guyana.

Dear Editor. I was looking at the height notice on the Overpass by the Harbour   Bridge.

Nomination Day on Friday for Local Government Elections (LGE) on November 12 was a seminal development as it set in train consecutive elections for grassroots democracy in under three years.

Dear Editor, My observation of the manner in which submission of Candidates’ Lists and contingent documents relative to the upcoming Local Government elections were prepared and submitted to Returning Officers at three Registration Centres, forces me to conclude that our aspiring “Village Leaders” and their handlers  were terribly out of their depth.

Dear Editor, As the indigenous peoples of Guyana are celebrating “Indigenous Heritage Month”, I believe it is most fitting to write this article about my cultural identity. 

Dear Editor, On the occasion of the International Day of Sign Languages on 23rd September, as proclaimed as an annual event by the United Nations in 2017,  the Deaf Association of Guyana Inc.

Dear Editor, Why is there no (easily accessible) events calendar for the Indigenous Heritage Month on the website of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs (MoIPA)?

Dear Editor, The genesis of the so called western civilization which spread in the new world with the indoctrination of colonialism through conventional education to indigenous people and others, indoctrinated the masses to conceptualise us through the lens of a particular hegemony hence it labelled indigenous and other minority cultures as backward and primitive, their languages as dialects and their people as tribes.

Dear Editor, I am not going to wait on Tacuma to respond to my last letter.