Opinion

Dear Editor, There were full page colour ads promoting alcohol consumption from ANSA McAl and GTT in the Sunday papers of 29 October, 2017.

Dear Editor, This letter is being written to inform the public of the unfolding events since my presentation to the Lands Commission of Inquiry (CoI) pertaining to lands at Kingelly, a village bought by my great-great-great-great grandfather Cudjoe McPherson, a man who came from slavery. 

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago, I attended a presentation at Moray House by our prolific Chris Ram.

Dear Editor, On Monday October 2, 2017 while walking with a friend on the seawall in the vicinity of the GTT cable and wireless network, we observed a fire on the northern side of the wall with the smoke crossing over the wall and the flame of the fire evident in the distance.

Dear Editor, The  position taken by the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on the unilateral appointment by President Granger of a GECOM Chair is at best disappointing, and at worst a betrayal of the legacy of its founder leader, the late Dr.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to President Donald Trump who criticized NFL players who engaged in pre-game protests — across the league knelt, locked arms, raised their fists and even refused to come out of the locker room during the national anthem.

American photographer Seph Lawless in his book Autopsy of America: The Death of a Nation has documented the failed state of the shopping mall in the United States of America with a series of eerie photographs of empty decaying buildings, shattered display windows, naked mannequins and broken parking lots.

Dear Editor, I have noted the letter in the Stabroek News of October 28, 2017 by Registrar of the Supreme Court Sueanna Lovell.

Dear Editor, The intensity of the widespread reaction following President Granger’s appointment of Justice James Patterson to fill the office of Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, and the ongoing public discourse reveals much about who and where we are as a people.

Dear Editor,   It has not taken long for there to be the beginnings of what was to be feared consequent to our President Granger unilaterally appointing Justice James Patterson as Chairman of GECOM; contravening our Constitution in letter, in spirit and in the face of nearly twenty-five years of effective practice; jettisoning the ‘qualities’ he himself advocated to our Leader of the Opposition (LOP); and reneging on his earlier offer for the two sides to meet to discuss modalities of going forward if he again found difficulty in choosing someone from the third list provided by our LOP.

By the time this editorial appears in public we would most likely already have been in possession of the outcomes of yesterday’s meeting between the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and President David Granger, the invitation to the Union to meet with the President coming in the wake of its call to teachers countrywide to withdraw their services to press its demand that government treat frontally with its proposals for salary increases and other benefits.

Dear Editor,   There is the clear indication of censure in the media of a Government ‘unilateral’ offer of increase in ‘salaries’ (rather than wages) of public servants. 

 Dear Editor, Charrandas Persaud, Attorney-at-law, in his letter  and  ACDA, the Pan African Group (Guyana) Branch, the All African Guyanese Association  and Concerned Citizens in the Diaspora in their letter, have given spirited and eloquent support for His Excellency David Arthur Granger, President of Guyana, in his appointment of retired Justice Patterson as the head of GECOM.

Dear Editor, In light of the GECOM imbroglio, I took the opportunity to briefly analyse Article 161(2) of the Constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Act.

Dear Editor, The American, British and Canadian governments, (referred to as the ABC countries), through their respective envoys in Guyana, have weighed in on the need for the judicial process and democratic norms to be followed in the appointment of the GECOM Chairman.

Dear Editor, Today, increasingly the widespread perception is that the young are feeling not very involved or engaged. 

Dear Editor, I had a surprise visit two days ago after a long illness from the Prime Minister’s wife, Mrs Sita Nagamootoo.

Dear Editor, Three years ago I started seeing `cloudy’ whenever light would enter my eyes.