Opinion

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources would like to respond to recent comments on the Development Plan for Liza Phase 1 which appear to raise inadvertently or otherwise, the spectre of some sinister motive or corruption in the decision making process.

Dear Editor, In 1995, President Cheddi Jagan designated September as Amerindian Heritage Month.

Dear Editor, I refer to three letters in the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, I waited so long, endured so much frustration, pain and anxiety, but when the moment came that I  had been waiting and working toward for nearly a decade finally arrived in April to fulfill my Guyanese dream of building a house in Guyana, it was not what I expected.

Dear Editor, It was a sad day for those who love to research and admire artefacts, documents and artworks to witness it reduced to ashes on September 2 at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

Dear Editor, How can workers’ right to severance be deemed as ‘haemorrhaging’ the State and ‘sucked funds from other programmes’?

When Canada patriated its Constitution in 1981, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau struck a compromise with wary Quebec nationalists by including a “notwithstanding clause” within the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Dear Editor, Presently we import all of our refined petroleum products from crude oil such as motor gasoline, diesel, kerosene, fuel oil, jet fuel ,avgas, lubricants and bitumen.

Dear Editor, On cable TV there is an ad: The words, the inflection!! 

Dear Editor, The world has lost another of its truly outstanding servants with a passion for dedicated service to the cause of freedom, peace and development.

Dear Editor, Today I am sad. Very sad. Today, the 14th September, would have been my brother’s thirty-fifth birthday.

Dear Editor, Sugar workers whose jobs were mercilessly ripped from them by APNU+AFC are legally entitled to their severance payments, having earned it by sweat and blood, none of them are asking for a handout, only what they are legally entitled to.

World Suicide Prevention Day was observed on Monday, September 10, 2018 and the attention was drawn once again to mental health issues in Guyana, as we are wont to give only periodic bursts of attention to such critical matters.

Dear Editor, Despite an avalanche of requests from the press during the course of last week, while the Council of Legal Education (CLE) was in Guyana deliberating on the question of a local law school, I intentionally remained silent.

Dear Editor, I join hands with Lal Balkaran (`Urgent need for biographies of our hidden heroes’-  SN 9/9/18) in lamenting the fact that we sorely lack a repertoire of biographical tales of the great luminaries and the best and brightest of Guyana who have contributed towards our historical development as a people.

Dear Editor, The accessing of old age pension and public assistance is now a royal prerogative which only the chosen few can acquire.

Dear Editor, It appears that the state’s legal machinery is so unprepared and lacking that it cannot get most matters right; or at least victoriously through the court system. 

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Frederick Collins’s letter published in the Monday, September 10, 2018 edition of the Stabroek News (SN) captioned `By falling for the propaganda of Caucasian conceit, the black man has induced a feeling of inferiority in himself.’