Opinion

Dear Editor, I read in the newspapers on July 1 about the Grade Six Asessments, and I am surprised at the results from the public schools.

Dear Editor, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan has reportedly stated that lack of money was the reason a new prison was not built, and that funds were needed elsewhere, including for sugar.

On the 29th April this year the Department of Tourism within the Ministry of Business held a Sports Tourism/Workshop which brought together sports associations, business and tourism entities, and the diplomatic corps with the aim of identifying the lines of action needed for the development of a successful sports tourism industry.

Dear Editor, I had very much hoped to be able to move on and not have to write anything more about the imposition of the 14% VAT on private education.

Dear Editor, Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) officers in the Mabaruma sub-region, Region 1 (Barima- Waini) are currently in the process of removing from Barabina its status as an Amerindian community.

Dear Editor, Residents of Triumph Front Lands (north of the Public Road), suffered from the worst of systems’ failures last weekend (July 14-16), caused by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) and the Police Force.

Dear Editor, Thus far what has been the primary goal of the Camp Street prison?

Dear Editor, I am not sure how much has changed in Guyana over the last thirty years.

Dear Editor, Mr Adams, the Development Officer, and Mr Grave, the Chief Executive Officer, both expressed publicly a desire to change selection eligibility, so that the West Indies cricket team can once again be selected from the best cricketers in the region.

Dear Editor, I have some questions regarding the Camp Street jailbreak”What were the prison guards doing that allowed four fires to be started at separate locations in the prison?

It may well come as a surprise to many Guyanese to know that Sports Tourism – international travel to participate in or view sport-related activities is reportedly worth an amount in excess of US$600 million a year, and has been growing at the rate of around 6 per cent annually over the past decade or so.

Dear Editor, President David Granger has noted that the July 9th jailbreak and fire at the Lot 12 Camp Street facility was an accident “waiting to happen”.

Dear Editor, I am enthralled by the recent ongoing debate in your columns on constitutional reform.

Dear Editor, The recent fire at the Camp Street Prison was a tragedy which concerns all Guyanese.

Dear Editor, In a recent letter `Why does it take 14 days to recover bail money’ (SN May 24, 2017 ),  I outlined the nightmare I encountered while attempting to recoup some bail money lodged at the City Constabulary.

Dear Editor, I would be naïve to assume that an amnesty between the players and Cricket West Indies is enough to catapult West Indies into the higher echelons of global cricket.

Whenever your main penitentiary is obliterated by arsonists within and the main plotters make a clean escape and haven’t been recaptured a week later, the country faces a major problem.

Dear Editor, United States Ambassador to Guyana, Mr Perry Holloway, has reportedly said (SN, July 7) that 7000 immigrant visas were issued and 72,000 applications for non-immigrant visas were processed last year.