Opinion

Dear Editor, When I read about the convenient analysis of this New York Times contributor Clifford Krauss, I’m not going to refer to him as a journalist because independent journalists research before composing articles, I thought it is common for some writers to express their biases and imaginations and care nothing of it.

Dear Editor, Any selection to head the local Department of Energy (DOE) would, as sure as the seawall keeps out the Atlantic, raise questions, stir controversy, and inevitably fall short. 

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Dear Editor, I would like to bring your attention to some of the deplorable roads that need immediate attention, Westminster and Herstelling housing scheme in particular (photo attached).

Dear Editor, I wish to reply to a speech delivered by Professor Clive Thomas on the 5th August, 2018 to an East Coast Community audience and reported in your newspaper, yesterday. 

Dear Editor, Please permit me some space in your publication. I am apprehensive about inserting myself in the state affairs of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and I also wouldn’t wish to insert myself in a delicate selection process as the one surrounding the country’s Police Commissioner, which recently concluded.

Dear Editor,  Dr. Clive Thomas, erstwhile anti-imperialist and dependency theorist, now a state functionary in the neo-liberal APNU+AFC government, said that the government should give US$5,000 from the oil revenue to each Guyanese household annually.

Globally, the importance of clean, adequate supplies of potable drinking water is regarded as a key index of human development.

Dear Editor, With both major parties wedded to the belief that they must be good ambassadors for Exxon’s Esso, the race to genuflect lower before Exxon, has already cost Guyana billions of dollars.

Dear Editor, The debate on the recent fatal shooting of five bandits by the police at Pattensen, East Coast, Demerara rages.

Dear Editor, The Working People’s Alliance joins with Guyanese and the rest of our Anglophone Caribbean family in their observance of the 180th anniversary of the end of chattel slavery.

Dear Editor, My attention was brought to the letter published on July 9th 2018 in Stabroek News, written by Rev Gideon Cecil, titled: `Guyana Prize for Literature has not helped emerging writers living and writing here’.

Dear Editor, I believe the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is staring down the proverbial ‘barrel of a loaded gun’ unless there is urgent, combined action by multiple agencies to stop the sustained theft of contributions to the scheme.

Dear Editor, Your Editorial, captioned ‘Threats to Press Freedom” in the Friday, August 3, 2018 edition of the Stabroek News provided a balanced perspective on the state of the media, not only in Guyana, but the world as a whole.

Dear Editor, I will like to submit that if the West Indies Cricket Board does not dissolve the Courtney Browne-led selection panel and appoint a new panel with our own Travis Dowlin as the chairman and people like Jeff Dujon, Ian Bishop and Darren Ganga as selectors, the West Indies team will be humiliated at the 2019 World Cup in England.

Dear Editor, Now that former Pakistani superstar cricketer, Imran Khan, has returned as a bigger star on his country’s stage, I thought that the field is open for a delightful straight drive all the way over the top of the Guyanese political scoreboard. 

Out of the blue, on February 27th this year, the government announced that a Department of Energy (DoE) within the Ministry of the Presidency would be established to take over responsibility for the oil and gas sector from the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).

Dear Editor, President David Granger’s speech at Beterverwagting on the eve of celebrations of the 180th anniversary of Emancipation has raised many important questions which I would like to share with the public through your forum.