Opinion

Dear Editor, I refer to SN’s editorial titled, ‘Dialogue and the Trini experience’ (July 24) on crime consultation and management there, and then the reports of the Lusignan embarrassment here. 

Dear Editor, Praise must be given to the University of Guyana (UG) for organizing the Diaspora Engagement Conference.

Dear Editor, It is obvious that cricket here has seen a rapid decline, but it cannot get worse than the failure to issue a release about the departure of the Guyana Under-19 squad to play in the Cricket West Indies Regional tournament.

Dear Editor, The disclosure that the thirteen escaped prisoners from Lusignan Prison dug their way out of the facility is as damning as it is damaging and worrying.

Dear Editor, As a property owner at 36 Ocean View Drive, Ruimzeight Gardens, Ruimzeight, West Coast, Demerara, I draw to your attention a situation which has been overlooked by the Central Housing and Planning Authority and other authorities, and which has now gotten out of hand.

In August, 1907, an English army officer Robert Baden-Powell organised an experimental camp on Brownsea Island on the south coast of England, off Dorset County.

Dear Editor, Sport sometimes mirrors life. Cricket lovers in the West Indies worry about the future of the game for good reason.

Dear Editor, It was indeed shocking to learn that over a dozen prisoners escaped from the Lusignan Prison on Monday July 24, 2017.

Dear Editor, Since the APNU+AFC assumed office there have been loud public outcries for at least two ministers to resign; they are Ministers Norton and Ramjattan.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of the Presidency is being mischievous in its release issued on July 22, 2017, titled, ‘President’s comments complement and do not contradict Acting CJ’s ruling.’

Dear Editor, I noticed on a calendar the names of all our MPs were preceded by the title ‘Hon’ (Honourable).

At the beginning of last week, amidst a surfeit of depressing developments at home, not least the  attempted bank robbery and the spectacular Georgetown Prison fire and ensuing jailbreak, came news that that the Guyana team competing in an international robotics Olympiad in Washington had placed 10th overall, out of 165 participating teams.

Dear Editor, The word ‘remigrant’ is often seen in print media referring to Guyanese nationals who now reside in Guyana after leaving wherever they had been.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to provide clarity to the situation captured in the Stabroek News photo captioned `Blankenburg water main’ on July 22, 2017.

Dear Editor, Do not be confused. We are writing here about sport: cricket, to be exact.

Dear Editor, I read with sadness and much disappointment, a letter by one Edwin Lynch, in last weekend’s edition of the CS, captioned, ‘Gay Rights’.

Dear Editor, I read with great pleasure the response of Debra Lewis, Public Relations Officer, M&CC to my recent letter to the editor in relation to the nightmare I encountered to get a refund of bail at City Hall.

Dear Editor, No proper historian can doubt that the most difficult economic years for the ordinary man in post-independent Guyana were during the last years of Forbes Burnham in the period 1984 to 1985.