Opinion

The Foreign Ministry could hardly have been surprised when on Monday, June 18, Venezuela made it known that it did not intend to participate in proceedings brought by Guyana in the International Court of Justice with regard to Caracas’s claim that the 1899 settlement of the border between the two countries was null and void.

Dear Editor, Reading Freddie Kissoon’s column today (Kaieteur News, 23/6/18) on the inaccessibility and deplorable condition of the Le Repentir Cemetery, especially during heavy rainfall, one gets the impression that it is the central government that is responsible for the maintenance of the cemetery in Georgetown and therefore, by extension, all the cemeteries in municipal and rural Guyana.

Dear Editor, I am appalled and deeply concerned at the manner in which our police seem so vulnerable and apparently helpless in the face of attacks by persons armed with nothing less than a knife.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s Ambassador to the United States Dr. Riyad Insanally has suggested that there be a more structured process of engagement between the Caribbean Diplomatic Caucus  in Washington DC and the Caribbean diaspora to ensure that efforts to advance the cause of the region and its people are well defined and co-ordinated.

Dear Editor, I have previously written on reports about the processes used for the selection of the Deputy Chief Election Officer; among these processes was the use of the Performance Appraisal System.

Dear Editor, Ours is an economy which is comparatively small, relatively undiversified and precariously dependent upon primary production.

Dear Editor, I am inspired to join the discussion by the cartoon depicting the PPP’s Gail Teixeira holding a placard proclaiming “Haitians Out!”

Last week, on World Refugee Day, the Guardian printed the names of 34,361 migrants who have died since the early 1990s, while trying to enter Europe.

Dear Editor, Thursday’s domestic violence that occurred at Limlair Village on the Corentyne was the last straw for me.

Dear Editor, I write responding to the letter in your Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Letter Column under the heading `Region Six REO should be sanctioned over bulldozer scandal’.

Dear Editor, The purpose of this letter is to thank the Honourable Prime Minis-ter and the Honourable Minister of Infrastructure, Mr.

Dear Editor, It would appear from the report on pages 18/19 of SN of Friday, June 15, that a case for/against selection of one candidate for the position of Deputy Chief Election Officer is based largely on prior related experience in GECOM, first as its Public Relations Officer and later Deputy Chief Election Officer, arguably on the basis of a ‘consensus’ (other informed observers would substitute the word ‘conciliation’) at the time and which required no casting vote.

Dear Editor, I read with great interest a media report about Finance Minister Winston Jordan declaring to China that Guyana is open for business.

Dear Editor, Rawle Toney thinks the young women representing Guyana in basketball were “Humiliated”.

It is perhaps an inescapable fact, applicable to countries around the world, that the public has a notoriously short memory.

Dear Editor, The fuel inspector who was flung out of the vehicle following the impact of the collision gives rise to speculation the seat belt was not engaged.

Dear Editor, In yesterday’s SN I saw that GWI has been given the green light to increase its water rates.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News editorial on 15 June, 2018 `Mental health and the poor and downtrodden’ talked about the failure of the justice system and the health system to deal with mental health problems faced by those who are in conflict with the law.