Opinion

Dear Editor, I refer to your report titled ‘Contentious broadcast bill passed’ (SN, August 4).

Dear Editor, Guyana has finally arrived in the big league! The Finance Minister announced the economy grew by about 2% for the first half 2017, a level reserved for fully developed economies like that of the United States.

Dear Editor, Political developments in Venezuela have turned out as predicted.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Government is finding it necessary to create three or more garbage dumpsites around the country.

Dear Editor, Re recent articles in Stabroek News and Kaieteur News:How can an Appeal Court order a Magistrate’s Court to cease functioning in a case?

Dear Editor, In the last 16 months, Guyana basketball has hosted the Caribbean Basketball Confederation Under 16 Championships for men and women.

Dear Editor, Allow me to correct a piece of misinformation that was carried in a letter in the Stabroek News of August 1, 2017 under the caption ‘GPSU parties should agree to read from the same page’.

As part of his development of a security reform action plan, UK expert Russell Combe was expected to submit an interim report by the end of last June to the government.

Dear Editor, I am an unemployed bachelor who has been residing at 163 Glen Road, Kara Kara from December 2016.  

Dear Editor. Please refer to the letter by former President Donald Ramotar in SN of July 29, 2017 headed ‘WPA calling for government to drop non-existent charges against Donald Rodney is a smokescreen’, which concerns me directly. 

On Thursday a Bill was introduced in Parliament intended to amend the Broadcasting Act of 2011.

Dear Editor, The political masquerade continues with the utterances of the Prime Minister in the National Assembly on August 3 as it relates to his government’s justification for including clauses in the Broadcast (Amend-ment) Bill of 2017 that infringe on both the freedom of the press and private enterprise.

Dear Editor, It is now twenty-two years since I wrote a prescient piece in the Chronicle called ‘Time for Sheriff Nagamootoo to tame the Wild West’ about the anarchy then extant in Guyanese television.

Dear Editor, I was shocked by recent disclosures in the press attributed to Mr Horace James, the Chief Executive Officer of NICIL, that the entity is financially “broke.” It

Dear Editor, The Venezuelan Electoral Authority wishes to inform you about the serious remarks made by Antonio Mugica, the representative of the company [Smartmatic] that supplies the National Electoral Council.

Dear Editor, My telephone line is down and so is my internet service.

Dear Editor,   With much pride in the post-emancipation period Africans have sung ‘First of August come again.’

Dear Editor, It was George Lamming, the revered Barbadian author, who observed that “There are men and women in the Caribbean who are so blinded by their own brilliance that they do not see the darkness through which they lead others”.