Opinion

Dear Editor, It is with deep sadness that I learnt that our Guyanese author, educator, journalist, community activist, playwright, pandit and dear friend Shri Churaumanie Bissundyal passed away.

There are signs that the agro-processing sub-sector of our manufacturing sector is beginning to creep closer to the realization of the long-held ambition of having our products such as sauces, condiments, beverages, snack foods and the like, make a mark on the local, regional and international markets.

Dear Editor, What the various international experts on oil and gas, who are here at the invitation of the Government of Guyana, are telling us is what the people of Guyana have been telling their government which continues to ignore their voices. 

Dear Editor, I hesitated to respond to the letters by Professor Justice Duke Pollard (`Lowe’s conclusion on case before CCJ was spurious’, in SN March 21) and by Maxwell Edwards (`I reject Sherwood Lowe’s conclusion on the third term case as incredulous’, in KN March 25), in which they both expressed displeasure over my comments on the persuasiveness of the oral argument at the CCJ on behalf of Richardson in the so-called presidential term-limit case.

Dear Editor, While I thank Mr Ori for his rejoinder to my letter, I cannot agree with any of the points that he puts forward.

Dear Editor, Yet again, there has been another accident tonight at the junction of Crown Street and New Garden Street.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, March 21, 2018 on Plain Talk, there were some very instructive comments on the state of local governance in one Neighbourhood that includes Plaisance and an area where there are two outstanding residents: the host of the programme Christopher Ram himself, and the other which the latter highlighted – the international airport at Ogle.

Dear Editor, It is said that some men are born great while others acquire greatness.

Dear Editor, When the self-identified so-called leadership group of Australians found it difficult to remove South African batsmen, (who, by the way, except De Villiers are, like the Australians except Smith, of average ability) on the third day of the Capetown five-day match, they decided to cheat by tampering with the ball.

Dear Editor, I was fortunate to have observed the CCJ proceedings on the case State of Guyana v Cedric Richardson popularly known as the ‘Third Term Case’. 

Dear Editor, Let’s say President Janet Jagan and her aides made a typo (an extra zero typed in and no one caught the error), but at that time (1999-2010), no one knew oil was under the seabed.

Dear Editor, I thank George N Cave for his letter, ‘There is merit in learning Creolese at university level but also about Creolese’ (SN, March 24).

Considering all of the facts known at this point,  there is an unmistakably familiar incongruence in the police explanations for the deaths of three men on the seawall on March 15 and numerous outstanding questions.

Dear Editor, So what are we to understand?  When officials give a public statement it is not to be heeded or accepted?

Dear Editor, I knew Dr Cheddi and Janet Jagan since 1977 when they welcomed me as a new staff member to the People’s Progressive Party Headquarters, Freedom House.

Dear Editor, In response to WPA’s criticisms of the high-handed manner in which WPA Executive Member David Hinds was booted out of the pages of the state-owned Guyana Chronicle as a fifth-columnist, a picture of President David Granger and WPA’s co-leader Rupert Roopnaraine embracing each other graced the pages of the Chronicle, along with a plea by Roopnaraine for the WPA to remain within the APNU.

It was like a cheap magician’s trick on a Music Hall stage: now you see it, now you don’t.

Dear Editor, Through facebook I have come to know an amazing lady named Rae Bob and the incredible work she is doing in Diamond on the EBD.