Opinion

On Friday, the opposition PPP issued a statement expressing concern at the deaths in recent months of four employees of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).

Dear Editor, On June 1st, 2018 the Stabroek News published an article discussing a report by Norway’s Rystad Energy.

Dear Editor, Every day, road users on the East Coast highway are exposed to grave danger at the turn-off to Atlantic Gardens at exactly the same spot where there was a major traffic crisis on Mother’s Day 2018, which I wrote about in a letter to the media in May.

Dear Editor, President David Granger is losing face in the tempestuous teapot that is Guyanese public opinion. 

Dear Editor, I am looking at the two complaints in the dailies with respect to claims made to NIS for survivors’ benefits.

Dear Editor, In today’s world of ‘texting’ and ‘tweeting’ there is very little, if any, appreciation for standard English Language and rich vocabulary such as are characteristic of the writing of Mr Earl B John.

On the afternoon of May 25th, in what was a departure from the custom, the Golden Arrowhead was hoisted at D’Urban Park in an event specially scheduled to accommodate hundreds of children. 

Dear Editor, On an almost weekly basis, the independence of the Judiciary is being tested. 

Dear Editor, The first ten years of our post-independence period was one of great hope and great ambition for all those patriots and visionaries who thought that Guyana, having been released from the shackles of colonialism, might create a society in which the rising generations could achieve a good life within a cooperative society.

Dear Editor, Why is it, may I ask, that the GTT customer care representatives annoy us with the meaningless introduction, “Thank you for choosing GTT?”

Dear Editor, One wonders whether even the relevant decision-makers are aware that the current Local Government Commissioners are the first appointees since the Municipal & District Councils Act of 1969 was passed, and provided for such appointments.

A month ago, at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the comedian  Michelle Wolf made risqué jokes about Donald Trump.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Basketball Federation is at a sweating point not a breaking point.

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing the letter from Ms Bernice Walcott (SN 30 May, 2018 – Say no to Gay Pride Parade) who is opposed to equality for LGBT citizens and to the Gay Pride March.

Dear Editor, My husband died on July 14, 1990. Our union resulted in a daughter who was eleven years of age at the time of his death.

Dear Editor, We recently celebrated our independence anniversary. At the flag raising ceremony at D’Urban Park this regime once more showed the direction it is taking our country. 

Dear Editor,  What Guyana desperately needs is a time for healing and the APNU+AFC government in its third year of government is in a position to facilitate this.

When inmates of the New Amsterdam penitentiary posted images on Facebook showing themselves imbibing hard liquor, energy drinks, and smoking what appeared to be marijuana cigarettes, much as if they were having a celebratory drink at a neighbourhood bar on the corner, the obvious culpability of prison officers in the regular breaches occurring in the prison system were dramatically exposed to the glare of public scrutiny.