Opinion

Dear Editor, Just over one year after the most deadly disturbance at the Georgetown Prisons in March 2016 in which seventeen prisoners lost their lives, came the most fiery event in its more than one hundred year history.

After a week has passed, citizens still do not know exactly what happened at the Camp Street Prison last Sunday, or the timeline of events.

Dear Editor, I want to express my profound gratitude to the police, along with the firemen, the prison officers and the ordinary soldiers who did their duty to the nation over the last few days. 

Dear Editor, Last week swift public accountability reinforced good governance in Trinidad & Tobago.

Dear Editor, Living in Guyana can be very challenging, especially for those who are forward-thinking, objective or constructive.

Dear Editor, The Commission of Inquiries Act empowers the President to commission an inquiry into any matter of public interest.

Dear Editor, Bartica, one of the latest municipalities in Guyana, with the beach at the bandstand and other areas; black water which once you get into you don’t want to leave; beautiful houses; supermarkets; well-maintained roads and pavements; and a drainage system, is so clean you can even smell the cleanness. 

Dear Editor The citizens of Guyana should not expect Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan to resign after the horrific jail break.

In the final weeks of his life, Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo was granted a brief respite from the usual rigours of his 11-year prison sentence for “incitement to subvert state power.” 

Dear Editor, Beatrice Rangel, a former Chief of Staff to former Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez has said that a desperate President Nicolás Maduro may well order military intervention into Guyana as a means of trying to divert attention from his internal troubles, but not a single platoon of the armed forces of Venezuela will obey that order.

Dear Editor, The letter, most of which is reproduced below, was delivered to Permanent Secretary, Mr Emil McGarrell, at the Ministry of Communities on June 12.

Dear Editor, President David Granger, in remarks noted in the press on the most recent Camp Street prison riot and destruction by fire, has described the event as “an accident waiting to happen”.

Dear Editor, The recent destruction of the Camp Street Prison, presumably by riotous inmates, makes it imperative that Guyana’s political directorate, in collaboration with the civilian authorities, move, as a matter of urgency, to reexamine the existing approach to crime and punishment.

Dear Editor, At about 10.15pm on the night of Wednesday 12th July, 2017 I was proceeding northwards on the Craig Public road in my car. 

Dear Editor, As is well known, the Good Lord has spared us from the earthquakes and hurricanes suffered by neighbouring countries, only leaving us to mismanage the land of many waters.

Dear Editor,  I had the privilege of attending the 56th Apprentice Graduation exercise of the GuySuCo Training Centre, Port Mourant, held on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Dear Editor, This is where criminologists come in handy. A couple of weeks ago the nation was pondering the anomaly of one educated young man, with a reasonably good job, taking up arms to rob a bank.

Dear Editor, Lincoln Lewis’s letter ‘The deformities do not lie in the structure but in the refusal of persons to comply with the structure’ (SN, July 3) is Lewis’s trademark tireless tirade.