Opinion

Dear Editor, Note is taken that the government is moving to commission four broadcasting stations in four Amerindian communities.

Dear Editor, The executive and members of the Enmore Shiv Mandir wish to openly record our gratitude to Guyana Power and Light Inc for responding positively to the Mandir’s  plea for the installation of a transformer to improve the supply of electricity to the Enmore Pasture area, including the Shiv Mandir.

It is no news to anyone that politics and ethnicity are almost coterminous in this country, although when speaking in these terms, commentators have only two ethnic groups in mind – Indians and Africans.

Dear Editor, They do it all the time. They talk incessantly about the Ashes as if the only matches worth playing are against Australia.

Dear Editor, I have long suspected that Dr Leslie Ramsammy was asleep at the wheel during his tenure as a government minister, and his latest commentary on the MV Torani confirms my suspicion.

Dear Editor, We refer to a letter titled ‘Commission has been ineffectual’ written by Mr Hafiz Rahaman which was carried in your newspaper of August 23rd, 2017.

Dear Editor, On the National Communications Network VOG 102.5 FM, there is a morning programme called ‘Manners Matter’ on the Breakfast Show at 07:40hrs.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday, August 23, I sat and encouraged my family to listen to a Plain Talk discussion hosted by Christopher Ram, that included Ramon Gaskin.

In September 2001 the English novelist Martin Amis wrote about the week of “incredulous misery” that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Dear Editor, The daily scandals and controversies which have enveloped the coalition government, have distracted public attention away from the crime wave that continues to wreak havoc on the law abiding citizens of this land.

Dear Editor, Certain impressions concerning remarks I made on the evening session on Wednesday 23rd August, 2017 to Toshaos were carried by your newspaper yesterday under the caption ‘Tension flares between Toshaos Council, Ministers’.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC regime has been conspicuously silent on the progress, or lack thereof, on issues related to the Guyana-Norway Agreement.

Dear Editor, It is a source of personal pride, and it is now in the public domain, that for a period of time I made the boardroom of GNBA into a temporary office where I spent considerable hours.

Dear Editor, It appears as though my letter captioned ‘I am a GNBA board member but I do not back Broadcasting Bill’ published in SN on August 19, clarifying an article carried in the Guyana Chronicle of August 18, seems to have hit a raw nerve in the Office of the Prime Minister, with the Prime Minister himself finding it necessary to author a whole page 2 article in the same newspaper, on Tuesday August 22, attacking my integrity, and going as far as to call me a hypocrite.

Dear Editor, Touts pretending to be Justices of the Peace and lawyers infest the Maraj building.

Dear Editor, If I hear of or read one more word about oil I am liable to commit a capital offence. 

Dear Editor, The ferry boat, Torani, has capsized in the Essequibo River somewhere near Mazaruni.

The discovery of offshore oil in Guyana has the potential to radically change the economic landscape – for better or for worse.