Opinion

Dear Editor, My attention has been drawn to a joint statement in the Stabroek News, dated April 8, 2018 under the caption, “FITUG/ GTUC against Agriculture Ministry gaining responsibility for GuySuCo”, purportedly issued by the Guyana Trades Union Con-gress and FITUG.

Dear Editor, The unemployment rate in Guyana is staggering and climbing every day.

Dear Editor, I recently learnt that a junior chess team was sent to Suriname for a tournament in that country by the Guyana Chess Federation which is headed by Mr James Bond.

Dear Editor, I write to take issue and at the same time, expose the primary intention of Freddie Kissoon’s column that was published in Kaieteur News on Thursday, March 29, 2018: under the caption,  ‘Roopnaraine is the most honest activist the WPA produced.’

Dear Editor, The arrest and sentencing of former President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, is one of the most shameful pages in the recent history of Latin America.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC coalition government is not serious about public health in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I observe the local muckraking circus, and it becomes very clear that it cannot be accurately described as a fringe any more, be it lunatic or otherwise. 

Dear Editor, It seems almost a done deal that the infamous parking meters will be re-introduced in the city of Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Professor Justice Duke Pollard’s letter ‘Lowe’s conclusion on case before CCJ was spurious’(Stabroek News, March 21, 2018), which criticizes Mr Sherwood Lowe for expressing his views in a letter ‘Mendez has shifted the CCJ gaze from Article 1 to Article 9 of the Constitution’ (Stabroek News, March 19, 2018), exposes the fact that Professor Pollard is ‘singing for his supper’ – moreso when you consider that he attempts to discount the views of a Guyanese, who has not been pro-PPP, but has been consistent in his expressions since I first met him in the early 2000s.

After the twenty-ninth inter-sessional meeting of the conference of the Caricom Heads of Government concluded on the 28th February, in Haiti, the communiqué issued, surprisingly, included the subject of West Indies cricket.

Dear Editor, Why are senior members of our military granted the right to bear arms?

Dear Editor, I was in Region Eight recently and really do marvel at the cleanliness of the community of Paramakatoi, and its orderliness.

Dear Editor, After reading a letter which appeared in your Stabroek News issue of Thursday, April 5, captioned: ‘To attempt to forcibly impose a contract the people have rejected is to take the road of high-handedness’ signed by Councillor, Khame Sharma, I have grudgingly come to the conclusion that much more work needs to be done in the areas of civic awareness, training and education in local government and governance, and the City Council.

Dear Editor, I call upon the President, the Attorney General, and the opposition, believed honourable people to varying degrees, to up the ante to level the field against those who wage war on the populace. 

Dear Editor, The first place I turned to in the book by Hilary McD Beckles, Cricket without a Cause: Fall and Rise of the Mighty West Indies Test Cricketers was the index.

Dear Editor, City Hall debated and voted to approve the parking meter bylaws.

Dear Editor, The situation in neighbouring Brazil is most interesting. Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has surrendered himself to the police after an initial reluctance to serve a 12-year sentence on corruption charges which he denies.

Dear Editor, Some days there is positive news and all is not lost.