Opinion

Dear Editor, Over the past six weeks we saw the second edition of the Jaguars’ Three day League rolled out across the country.

Four years ago at the Oscars the comedian Seth MacFarlane joked that nominees for the best Supporting Actress category would “no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.”

Dear Editor, The Feasibility Study and Design for the new Demerara River Crossing undertaken by LievenseCSO was recently released by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI).

Dear Editor, The Carib residents of the Bara-mita village, Matarkai Sub-region, Region 1 (Barima-Waini) have complained that the root cause of their current social ills is irresponsible mining activities taking place on their legally-titled village lands without the consent or permission of a village general meeting called by the Village Council.

Dear Editor, We have applied to the Neighbourhood Democratic Council office which is Buxton/Foulis, for approval of a building design for a storage bond.

Dear Editor, Corporal punishment has been with society ever since man began to walk this Earth.

Dear Editor, In my 53 years of association with Berbice cricket, I have never heard of such depressingly shameful allegations involving the election of a President of the Berbice Cricket Board, when for the first time in its history an election of the Berbice Cricket Board was alleged to have been conducted by two paid Directors of Cricket West Indies and a resigned president of the Guyana Cricket Board.

Dear Editor, With the events surrounding the debacle that was the elections of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), cricket in Berbice has now been reduced to rubble because of the selfishness and unscrupulousness of a few who would do anything to control the game in the region. 

“Read my lips: no new taxes!” This phrase was one of the most quoted sound bites emanating from George H W Bush, speaking at the 1988 Republican National Convention, in accepting the Republican presidential nomination.

Dear Editor, I just looked (Wednesday afternoon) at a session of the IDB/Private Sector Commission business development summit in Guyana via live stream. 

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) for the good work of starting construction of the football facility at Providence.

Dear Editor, There is a house next to 114 Prospect on the East Bank of Demerara that appears to be sitting on a government reserve.

Dear Editor, Not so long ago the President commented that Guyana needs brains not barrels.

Dear Editor, We have been members of the Guyana Swine Producers Co-op Society Ltd for over two years.

Dear Editor, The Good Hope, Hand-en-Veldt Mahaica sideline dam (Jagg/Saridam) needs resurfacing with bitumen.

Dear Editor, The world is no longer flat.  It has shrunk to the point where it is now the thin silhouette of a plane, as in the very narrow line of a tight circle.

Dear Editor, I acknowledge and indeed am grateful for Mr Roysdale Forde’s public recognition of the Gaming Authority’s obligations to keep confidential, information that has been submitted to it.

Dear Editor, The Ephemeris is an astronomical almanac or table of the positions of celestial bodies.

Dear Editor, Just a short note to thank you for intervening in the matter of very loud music played publicly in the vicinity of All Saints Anglican Church at the corner of Main and Trinity Streets in New Amsterdam.