Opinion

Dear Editor, According to the Stabroek News Editorial on the Guyana Prize, “the debate has strayed off course” (July 11, 2018).

Dear Editor, The Monday, July 16 edition of the Stabroek News published a letter captioned `Ismay Lake is seeking help in her just case for NIS survivor’s benefit’.

Dear Editor, The taxi driver engaged me in a most accusative manner, as if I were responsible for his son having dropped out of school.

Dear Editor, Why should the Consular trip to Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela [SN 2018-07-16] be postponed if was necessary?

Dear Editor, We are so much embroiled with our domestic politics that we sometimes lose focus on some of the bigger issues playing out at the regional and international level.

When the Air France jet carrying the triumphant French team, the 2018 FIFA World Cup champions, touched down at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Monday it was greeted with a water cannon salute and hundreds of adoring fans. 

Dear Editor, The front page of yesterday’s Stabroek News features a banner headline concerning the tax affairs of Guyana Stores Ltd.

Dear Editor, Reporters have asked for my comments on the Simona Broomes saga, but up till now I remained quiet on it largely because I did not want to become part of the personal attacks on the minister.

Dear Editor, A sports bar in the Anna Regina area has been harassing residents with loud music far into the morning.

Dear Editor, As I recall, in the late 1980’s the Jamaican Government undertook a comprehensive overhaul of its Public Service Agencies, and in the process made some of them more responsive and productive.

Dear Editor, Hon. Simona Broomes, Minister within Guyana’s Ministry of Natural Resources, is from my home town of Bartica.

The manner in which drugs and other materiel associated with the delivery of services at the state-run health care institutions in Guyana are acquired has long been the subject of animated public chatter that often alights upon the subject of the circumvention of tender regulations and excursions into what are believed to be optional corrupt practices.

Dear Editor, After my last letter on security matters, a confidential source with strong ties to the APNU+AFC who will remain anonymous, called to plead with me not to be so critical of the Minister of Public Security.

Dear Editor, As a Guyanese citizen, there are certain public places where I have a right to walk freely, without harassment and stress.

Dear Editor, I see that we, the Guyanese people have at last found ourselves where we deserve to be – in an ethnic conundrum.

Dear Editor, I am on record as recognising the good work of Minister Broomes when she was in the Ministry of Social Protection. 

Dear Editor, As a concerned Berbician and Guyanese and having noted indications in the media about the probability of a rate increase for the use of the Berbice River Bridge, I made a simple suggestion that our National Government (emphasis our National Government!)

Dear Editor, After reading Ralph Ramkarran’s column in the Stabroek News (SN, June 10, 2018) which attempts to explain the ethnic distribution of GECOM’s staff, I attempted to challenge his claim that the apparent correlation of ethnicity and occupation in Guyana could be explained by the historical preferences of the various ethnic groups.

Dear Editor, I pray for the Judicial Review Act to be brought into operation instantly so that aggrieved claimants will be able to challenge any unlawful decision made by officers of NIS and National Insurance (NI) Tribunal.