Opinion

Dear Editor, Why is Berbice being so severely discriminated against? Our national government seems comfortable with building, maintaining and subsidizing the operation of a new Demerara River Bridge (reportedly, in addition to the existing Demerara River Bridge); commuters pay the paltry sum of $100 for a car to use the bridge while the same commuter, who pays the same taxes to the Government, has to pay virtually twenty times more to cross the Berbice River Bridge…..and

Dear Editor, In an effort to maintain political objectivity I chose to write this letter sometime after the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the issue of Presidential term limits in the Guyana Constitution, to avoid becoming a victim to the obvious sensational atmosphere that the ruling engendered.    

Dear Editor, I have noted with increasing concern the behaviour of Junior Minister Simona Broomes.

Dear Editor, Important and major infrastructural works such as roads, bridges, harbours as well as water supply and electricity generation should not, in my view,  be put in the hands of private individuals or companies.

Dear Editor, It always pains me when the lives of productive Guyanese men and women are disrupted and sometimes destroyed because of excessively harsh penalties inflicted on them for being found with minuscule quantities of marijuana.

Dear Editor, If one was bold enough to commit a wrong then one should be equally bold enough to apologize.

Since the incredibly high-profile prison break in 2002, the Georgetown Prison has been under intense public scrutiny regarding its ability to safely house detainees without undue public and internal risk.

Dear Editor, I take the time to reply once more to questions repeated by Rev Gideon Cecil who asserts in a letter “Guyana Prize for Literature has not helped emerging writers living and writing here.”

Dear Editor,  One of the most urgent problems facing Guyana is the exponential rise in crime in recent times.

Dear Editor, In Guyana while the Ministry of Agriculture is spending $40 million this year on improved rice varieties, enhanced rice production and improved quality, a huge acreage of rice is being spoiled in the fields in Region 6. 

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News editorial of July 10, 2018, `Minister Lawrence’s corruption tirade ‘ illustrates the dangerous attitudes that are retarding progress in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I refer to the sensitively presented SN editorial titled, “Nobody’s nation” (SN July 7). 

During the 1990s just when the rumblings about the effects of smoking on health were finally being heard in developing countries, a world tobacco conglomerate sponsored a forum for journalists.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to articles appearing in Kaieteur News on the 8th day of July 2018, under the caption `NY-based company sole sourced in $366M drug contract -major local suppliers disqualified’ and in Stabroek News on the 9th day of July 2018, under the caption `Questions raised about Ministry’s sole-sourcing of $367m in drugs from HDM Labs’.

Dear Editor, I feel honoured to have been awarded the Guyana Prize for the poetry I have written.

Dear Editor, In the mid-1970s the Burnham government created the Guyana National Service.

Dear Editor, Nearly a month ago I penned a letter to the press complimenting Mr Gobin Harbhajan on his stance against corruption by AFC members in Berbice.