Opinion

Dear Editor, Because Saxacalli is in Region Three it is serviced by a medical team from the West Demerara hospital.

Dear Editor, Two recent occurrences motivated me to carefully re-read the provisions of the Laws of Guyana that provide for the establishment of the Elections Commission and the Local Government Commission.

Dear Editor, In all honesty, I was always curious as to when Mr Freddie Kissoon was a member of the WPA, since I do not recall meeting him during the period 1977 to 1982, the period when I was actively involved in the political struggle in Guyana.

Dear Editor, The GAWU recognized from a report appearing on Newsroom, that Finance Minister Winston Jordan was quoted as saying, “Where the Ministry of Finance can help, it will help, but what we will not do is to take any responsibility for the agriculture sector and specifically for GuySuCo”.

Dear Editor, This is my second instalment in response to a vicious attack on my political activism and analytical commentary by Tacuma Ogunseye (SN, April 11).

Dear Editor, SN’s editorial of Friday, April 6 on the issue of compensation for Guyana’s teachers touched a nerve that has rankled me for the past two decades.

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to an article, entitled, ‘Anthony, Nandlall, Ali among likely PPP picks,’ published by the Sunday Stabroek in its April 8, edition.

Dear Editor, The past two weeks witnessed some remarkable outpourings of praise for the late Cheddi Jagan, thus it would be superfluous to add to this rather devotional acclaim.

Dear Editor, The plethora of unnecessarily long and repetitious Vacancy Ads and Invitations to Bid by various governmental agencies, especially the Ministry of Health, caught my attention almost as an irritant yesterday as I read through the daily newspapers.

Recently, British High Commissioner to Guyana, Mr Gregory Quinn had some harsh words to say against corruption in law enforcement, making a strong suggestion that corrupt officers must be jailed once found guilty.

Dear Editor, The West Indian nation stands proud against the debilitating history from which it has emerged and continues to erupt with the inevitability of its dignified independence.

Dear Editor, Letters by Coretta McDonald (‘No one was authorised to issue a joint statement on GuySuCo by FITUG and GTUC’ SN, April 11) and Eon Andrews (‘GTUC executive had no knowledge of joint statement with FITUG’ CG, April 11) refer.

Dear Editor, I offer below my refutation of the fictionalization of parts of my political life that was carried in a letter of Wednesday April 11, 2018 by Tacuma Ogunseye.

Dear Editor, Your editorial of March 20, 2018, on the late Cheddi Jagan, was timely, given that it was his 100th birth anniversary.

Dear Editor, Guyana must be complimented for its diligence in succeeding in persuading the UN Secretary General to submit the border controversy to the International Court of Justice, requesting the court to confirm the legal validity and binding effect of the 1899 Arbitral Award.

Dear Editor, I was quite entranced by the intellectual passion which informed the discussion of the late Churamanie Bissundyal on Neaz Subhan’s programme ‘The Factor’, on Friday evening, March 30.

Data on the early ages at which children begin smoking cigarettes and using hard drugs surfaced once again during a national community policing organisation event on Sunday last, with Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan expressing amazement that some were as young as 11.

Dear Editor, The Diocese of the West Indies has lost one of its foremost mentors of the AMWI and the Brotherhood of St Andrew (BSA) in the Diocese of Guyana.