Opinion

Dear Editor, I note three recent letters in Stabroek News on the topic of Guyanese Creolese. 

Dear Editor, My visit to the GRA headquarters last week was shocking.

Dear Editor, I am currently writing an article on ‘Is it the politics of oil or oil of politics in Guyana’ for a reputable journal.

Dear Editor, Numerous articles have appeared in your newspaper with reflections on the influence of Cheddi Jagan and his achievements which spanned a period of over 50 years.

Dear Editor, The Mayor & City Council has obviously flouted the laws pertaining to the administration of the city, and in respect of its duties.

Dear Editor, The West Indies Cricket Team will be playing in next year’s World 50-Over Competition after narrowly earning its place in the recently concluded ICC Qualifying Tournament in Zimbabwe.

Dear Editor, Sunil Ambris, a very promising young cricketer had some incredibly negative experiences recently in New Zealand on his first tour.

Before Cambridge Analytica (CA) mined Facebook data from 50 million users for  “psychographic” profiles that could influence the US elections, it reportedly honed its methods in Trinidad.

Dear Editor, Ever since the release of the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between the Government of Guyana and ExxonMobil there has been an intense and energetic public debate on its terms, especially those relating to the financial aspects.

Dear Editor, I did a column a few weeks ago saying it is tricky at this point to get the contract renegotiated, let alone tearing it up.

Dear Editor, The law of Guyana provides a right for an accused person to make an unsworn statement from the dock in his/her defence at trial.

Dear Editor, During last week we witnessed the mini-drama of the Chronicle standing by its decision to cease publishing articles by Dr David Hinds and Mr Lincoln Lewis.

Dear Editor, The acting Commissioner has made an address to the public but has failed to address the contentions that surround the incident in question.

Dear Editor, I want to thank Alim Hosein for the letter ‘We need to teach English and other languages but this does not preclude respect for Creolese’ (SN, March 22) in response to my letter, ‘What is the merit of learning Creolese at university level’ (SN, March 20).

Dear Editor, As we observe the centennial anniversary of the former President it was disappointing to read that the commemorative stamps, which should have been launched on Tuesday and of which the Minister with responsibility made mention during a recent address, were not delivered (SN, March 22).

Dear Editor, In the Friday 16 March edition of Stabroek News there appears a curiously constructed advertisement by NICIL/SPU titled ‘Expressions of Interest’.

Dear Editor, I would like to issue a call to all my fellow Guyanese to rethink the situation on the national level in which we find ourselves from a fresh perspective, and make an effort to resolve once and for all the relationships we share, so that we can really join together and contribute to the mutual development of our people.

“Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink,” is a line from the poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, detailing how a sailor on a becalmed ship is surrounded by undrinkable salt water.