Opinion

Dear Editor, According to the mother, on Tuesday her daughter left for school as per normal.

Dear Editor, Please grant me the space in your publication to clear up a misconception that the public may have regarding the sordid situation at City Hall involving a former rank of the City Constabulary and a minor.

We welcome the long-awaited appointment by the APNU+AFC government of the seminal Local Government Commission (LGC) notwithstanding concerns about the basis on which the AFC General Secretary Marlon Williams was chosen as a member.

Dear Editor, As we start November and year-end beckons, it is a sad reminder that there exists no premier football competition in the country.

Dear Editor, As representatives of  liberal democracies, I expect that the US Ambassador, Mr Perry Holloway, the UK High Commissioner, Mr Greg Quinn and Mrs Lilian Chatterjee, Canadian High Commissioner have an interest in defending Guyana’s fledgling democracy.

Dear Editor, In short, out of the teaching service came the public service and they are both indispensable to each other.

Dear Editor, On Thursday September 30, 2017 as I travelled along Vlissengen Road in a taxi, I noticed a dead dog bloated on the parapet alongside Camp Ayanganna and in the vicinity of David and Pike Streets, Kitty.

Dear Editor, From misjudgment to misled…to a senior moment….what’s next? The fundamental question is can the tangled web be unravelled?

Nobody familiar with how events have unfolded in Guyana in recent times would have been altogether surprised by the raucous heckling from the placard-bearing ranks of the PPP/C in Parliament on Thursday.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article in the Stabroek News under the caption `Missing case file delays trial of attorney over death of pedestrian’ on page 13, dated Wednesday November 1, 2017.

Dear Editor, A former US Judge and Religious leader, Dallin H.

Dear Editor, It is with great regret I write this letter to complain about my first experience with Fly Jamaica.

Dear Editor, This week as we observe the 9th anniversary of the passing of the founder of Stabroek News, David de Caires and after reading the contemplation of Doreen de Caires on what action he would have advocated today if he was still with us, I reflected on my own experience with David and remembered him telling me as a 24-year-old University of Guyana student, after I had congratulated him on the brilliantly written Stabroek News’ editorials, that he could not take full credit for all the editorials since there was a team of contributing writers  and that I as a young person should get involved in the public discourse and contribute my own views and thoughts on the topical issues of the day. 

In a concluding note to a series of lectures on “The Uses and Abuses of History,” the historian Margaret MacMillan observes that while we ought to refrain from pat assertions about what history “teaches” us or “shows”, it is nevertheless useful “to be reminded, as a citizen, that those in positions of authority do not always know better.”

Dear Editor, This is not about any chairmanship, and yet it is; it cannot help being so, whether indirectly or remotely. 

Dear Editor, We are writing to share our concerns about the HPV vaccination campaign that the Guyana Ministry of Public Health has once again re-launched, specifically targeting pre-teen schoolgirls.

Dear Editor, This is a respectful appeal for urgent political dialogue between the President and the Leader of the Opposition to address the pressing social and political problems of Guyana in the national interest.