Opinion

Years ago, before the evolution of social media, people changed their names to fit in or to avoid drawing attention to themselves because it was unusual.

Dear Editor, Recently there have been discussions between the respective Unions and the Government on increased wages and salaries for public servants and for teachers.

Dear Editor, The traditional concept of a ‘job’ for life with a particular company or organization has been changing in the world of work and human resource management.

Dear Editor, President Granger demonstrates an immaturity in several of his decisions that appears designed to impose his “one-man-will” on a “750,000-person” nation. 

Dear Editor, Once again, I am thankful that I do not look at any local television fare. 

Dear Editor, The character and quality of parliamentary democracy depends very much on the elected parliamentarians, their behaviour should be such as to enhance the dignity of parliament and its members in general.

On 15th October there was a horrific vehicular accident on the Corentyne involving a car and a paddy truck.

Dear Editor, Last week Guyanese at home and abroad were treated to the sight of the opposition holding up placards and loudly disrupting the President’s address in parliament, to protest what they see as his unilateral appointment of Justice James Patterson as the new GECOM Chairman.

Dear Editor, After reading a letter in Stabroek News  on Friday,  November 3rd 2017 entitled:- `Gov’t should halt HPV vaccination programme, there are better options’, I am obliged to reply to the authors in their own interest and in the interest of the public.

Dear Editor, Much has been said about our protest in the National Assembly during the address of the President on Thursday, November 2.

Dear Editor, GECOM Chairman: “You have won the General Elections of 2020.

Dear Editor, It has been reported that UTT (University of Trinidad and Tobago) is facing serious financial difficulties and may not be able to operate beyond January 2018.

Dear Editor, Ever since President David Granger at his 7th meeting with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to discuss the naming of a Chairman of GECOM announced that he had so chosen Justice Patterson, the PPP has raised fears of electoral rigging never mind it was the PPP in 1962 which was the first to introduce rigging at the PPP Congress where it padded the electoral list with one hundred WPO members in order to prevent Hindu intellectual Balram Singh Rai from becoming Chairman of the PPP.

Not least among the challenges of holding political office is the sense of unease that is often felt by the office holder about being constantly in the public limelight and as a consequence, being almost always open to public scrutiny and to the mix of adulation and criticism that attends the occupancy of political office.

Dear​ ​Editor, We wish to respond to the claims of Sherlina Nageer and friends who penned a letter titled `Government should halt HPV vaccination programme, there are better options’ to your​ ​newspaper​ ​dated​ ​03/11/2017.

Dear Editor, I read with great pleasure the training of members of the Guyana Police Force Strategic Management Unit (SMU) which was recently conducted by the British Government.

Dear Editor, I just finished reading a 400-page biography of Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis.