Opinion

Dear Editor, I have heard and read strong criticisms about the handling of our national affairs by the ministers and the President.

The availability of land for housing has allowed many citizens to move from squatting in shacks, overcrowding their parents’ or relatives’ homes or from being homeless to becoming home owners.

Dear Editor, The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) project ‒ Guyana’s Redd+ Readiness activities ‒ is now in the close-off year without any tangible activity being completed.

Dear Editor, There is a new type of commercial noise nuisance associated with mobile vendors in Region Six, especially in the Central and Upper Corentyne areas.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Hemp Association (GHA)  calls on President David Granger and the APNU+AFC administration to inform the nation about what is causing the delay in the removal of the legislative barriers for the cultivation of industrial hemp and the manufacture of the wide variety of hemp products in the country.

Dear Editor, I welcome the action taken by Anil Nandlall, PPP/C Member of Parliament and attorney-at-law, to approach the ancestral lands Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to resolve what has been an ongoing dispute pertaining to the village of Kingelly, West Coast Berbice.

Dear Editor, Many Guyanese continue to operate according to the notion that our President and government ministers should be treated like royalty or with some such deference.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Inc is perpetrating an unfair act on their customers and calling it a precaution to prevent theft.

Dear Editor, Please permit me space once more to express my concern and disappointment at the way the Better Hope/La Bonne Intention NDC have been operating.

Dear Editor, Over two hundred students of the St Ignatius Secondary School dormitory in central Rupununi, Region Nine, congregated in their mess hall last Saturday evening, September 30, to observe the conclusion of Child Protection Week 2017.

Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy magazine passed away last week at the age of ninety-one. 

Dear Editor, I learnt with great sadness of the passing of Rocky McPherson in California.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned, ‘What are the real curses?’

Dear Editor, Mr Lincoln Lewis believes that critics of the Guyana Constitution have not read the document and implies that my objection to the Constitution stems from hatred of Forbes Burnham (SN, September 27).

Dear Editor, Two Mondays ago, I witnessed the most unsettling pulling and tugging of a young schoolgirl by minibus conductors and touts operating the Stabroek-South route.

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Voice is thrilled that Ms Ann Green, head of the Childcare and Protection Agency, has announced plans for a registry of sex offenders in Guyana, especially since such a call was made since 2015 by The Caribbean Voice, which also established an online petition calling on the President of Guyana to act on this initiative.

Dear Editor, The paradigm appears to be slowly but surely shifting towards the police in their seven divisions being more community oriented and problem solving (COPS).