Opinion
No complaints regarding my stay at GPHC
Dear Editor, I would like to add my piece regarding the services that are provided to patients at the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The BBC interview
While President Ali has earned plaudits for his push back to questions recently from the BBC’s Hard Talk host, Stephen Sackur, there are several issues which require a refining of Guyana’s position so that it doesn’t endanger its forest legacy or bequeath a carbon bomb to the planet.
I believe that electoral reform should be the Commission’s primary focus from the outset even as there are other pressing issues that needs addressing
Dear Editor, While I hasten to welcome the recent establishment of the Constitutional Reform Commission, it is rather unfortunate that it has taken so long following the passage of the Act back in 2022.
Six reasons why Guyana will never become a viable experience for tourists
Dear Editor, I read with interest an article from GTA that Guyana continues to captivate and inspire travelers from around the globe.
Difficult to establish if the AG works for us the people or for his party
Dear Editor, I met the Attorney General (Mohabir Anil Nandlall) on two occasions, the most memorable was during the (2020) recount at the Sleep Inn Hotel on Church Street.
Stubborn refusal to reimburse for mismatched slippers
Dear Editor, Following your publication of my complaint, “No refund for Mismatched Slippers” (Stabroek News.
Extensive power outages underscores gov’t’s failure to anticipate and adequately address infrastructure challenges
Dear Editor, I am writing to highlight the recurrent pattern of reactive responses rather than proactive measures from the current government in handling crises in Guyana, notably the recent widespread power outages.
Sentimental reverence for Cheddi’s enduring legacy and legitimizing the silencing of Indian history
Dear Editor, VS Naipaul once observed that Indians have historically lacked what he referred to as the “ideas of inquiry and the tools of scholarship.”
Congrats on the swearing in of the Constitutional Reform Commission members
Dear Editor, I commend President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali for swearing in members of the Constitutional Reform Commission.
Delayed diplomatic appointments
If there is any expression in the government’s lexicon which best captures the concept of mañana, it is the word ‘soon’.
Cartoon
Believing that the electricity sector would take care of itself we focused all our energies on a fanciful and uncertain silver bullet
Dear Editor, When I read the President’s statement that “This year alone in addition to the shortfall which we have in generating capacity we are projecting another energy demand of 35 megawatts so that will take total demand by the end of this year to 220 MW that is on the system right now,” I was immediately reminded of Lord Keynes’ famous aphorism, “In the long run we are all dead.”
Goolsarran’s Accountability Watch’s incorrect assumptions and conclusions may have been drawn from an incomplete or parts of the audit report
Dear Editor, We read the March 25, 2024 installment of your weekly Accountability Watch by Anand Goolsarran, titled “The audit report on Exxon’s post-contract costs”, and found several inaccuracies and incorrect statements which we would like to address here.
I regret agreeing to be a PPP/C candidate in 2020
Dear Editor, What is going on in Guyana? In the past few days I have seen and heard complaints and accusations from many important sections of our society and it’s very disturbing.
Foreign Affairs letter on latest Venezuelan aggression was utterly useless
Dear Editor, The recent statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on April 3rd concerning the serious and escalating situation with Venezuela was utterly useless.
Politikles
The GECOM chair
With general elections just a year and change away, one of the prime matters to be settled will be the chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
Drag race reeks of pure and utter madness
Dear Editor, It seems reason has taken flight and the mental condition has deteriorated to such an extent that the senseless act, in the matter of the drag race accident which took place in an East Coast community between two vehicles, one, allegedly driven by a fifteen year old, reeks of pure and utter madness.
The PM’s letter contradicts his own gov’t’s protestations regarding GPL that under the Coalition nothing was done during 2015-2020
Dear Editor, Please permit me to thank the Prime Minister for his response as well as his public acknowledgement that contradicts the untruths which claim that nothing was done during 2015 – 2020.
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