Opinion

On a mundane Sunday afternoon on July 9 last, a remarkable thing occurred: the deeply ingrained inertia and reactionary mindset that characterises the current administration was suddenly and dramatically exposed.

Dear Editor, The Berbice Cricket Board notes with disgust a press release emanating from the Guyana Cricket Board published in the Kaieteur News of Sunday July 2 on page 65, in which it seeks to inform the general public that “Mr.

Dear Editor, I am disappointed but not surprised that the Regional Chairman of Region Two omitted to inform your publication of my response to him, less than an hour after he contacted me via email.

Dear Editor, Your article ‘Essequibo residents fume over daily blackouts’ (SN, July 12, 2017) in which Regional Chairman Devanand Ramdatt is quoted as seeking clarity from GPL, is dated.

Dear Editor, I think we should all look at the recent disaster with the destruction of the Camp Street prison and subsequent escapes of convicts, in the same way we human beings should always view any problems that we encounter in our lives, with a deep examination of the conditions and events that may have been the real causes of this fiasco.

Dear Editor, Please be informed that NIS Camp and Bent Streets staff will continue to operate from the Brickdam and Winter Place Office until Friday July 14, 2017.

Dear Editor, Although four months late in coming, I applaud UWI Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles for his missive captioned ‘The Caribbean celebrates centennial of defeat of Indian Indenture’ (SN, Jul 12).

Dear Editor, At the time of dispatching my letter to the media on the night of Sunday, July 9, at 9.23pm  I called on the Joint Services to be more pro-active in their public relations reporting concerning the unfolding events at the scene of the conflagration at the Georgetown Prisons.

Guyana’s season of fear has had an unnecessary, though not totally unexpected extension wrought by Sunday’s well-planned, well-executed prison breakout where fire was used as a diversionary measure.

Dear Editor, On July 9, 2017, we experienced the worst jailbreak and destruction of the jail in our history.

Dear Editor, This year the Caribbean Community is rising to celebrate the centennial of the defeat of post-slavery Indentured Servitude and the final Emancipation of the Indian community from labour bondage.

Dear Editor, On Saturday, July 1, 2017, I had to visit the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri to pick up my wife who was returning from overseas at 15:00 hrs.

Dear Editor, Have the authorities been aware of the goings-on in the prisons in Guyana over the past 15 months?

Dear Editor, Let me be clear that what prompted me to write my comments (SN July 2) on Mr Rawle Lucas’s balance-of-payments (BOP) analysis was not to dispute his theoretical correctness, but concerns about policy questions which his analysis raised in my mind.

Dear Editor, With regard to the recent prison fire catastrophe, most people are stifling their consciences because of political slants, or sheer stupidity. 

Dear Editor, The June 9 Camp Street prison conflagration that pretty much destroyed this complex continues to spawn myriad news angles to help readers capture the whole emerging picture of what happened, why it happened and what jittery citizens can expect in the form of public safety going forward.

Dear Editor, There are times, rare times, in the affairs of men when a disaster deserves a cheer.