Opinion

Dear Editor, First, I offer my sincere condolences to the grieving family of the deceased prison officer.

Dear Editor Your editorial in yesterday’s edition on the garbage crisis was pointed and made reference to the many elements of this vicious cycle that ever so often repeats itself.

Dear Editor, Corruption kills.  It also wounds and burns and menaces. 

The thirty-eighth regular meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) was held last week Tuesday to Thursday (July 4-6) in Grand Anse, Grenada.

Dear Editor, I feel a sense of pain, grief and sorrow on learning of the events on Sunday at the Georgetown Prisons.

Dear Editor I read with keen interest a report in the Kaieteur News of Sunday, July 8, under the caption, ‘Cop, rural constable admit involvement in attempted bank robbery.’

Dear Editor, The Camp Street prison fire will hold the nation’s attention for the next few days, or less if and when the escapees are under wraps. 

Dear Editor, The Indian Action Committee (IAC) is shocked and horrified at the deliberate destruction of the Camp Street Jail which was destroyed by fire on Sunday, July 9, set simultaneously in several buildings in the compound by dangerous prisoners many of whom are on Death Row or serving life sentences for murder.

Dear Editor, I am a proponent of respecting the Guyana Constitution and making it work.

Dear Editor, I do not think that I am alone in feeling that our society is beset and besieged by all sorts of prejudice, buttressed by a dangerous arrogance in the belief that any one of us is right or has the answer to what is at the root of our current socio-economic problems.

Dear Editor, I will repeat what Prime Minister Nagamootoo stated in the last election campaign, for which he was roundly condemned by the previous government.

Dear Editor, As a subscriber to GTT, I was in the middle of research via my mobile device on the late afternoon of Saturday, July 8, when all of a sudden I realised that I no longer had internet access.

It strains credulity to think that two by no means large local private sector companies have been able to remain in business in circumstances where, together, they are owed amounts totalling well in excess of $300 million for essential services which they have been rendering to the capital for years.

Dear Editor, With respect to what the Trinidadian Prime Minister said about cricket and Caricom it might be helpful if he reflects on what the first leader of his party, who was, perhaps, more important as an academic than as a politician, wrote: “To the formidable contributions that sugar had made to the contemporary Caribbean psychology must be added this one, not by any means the least important, that it engendered and nurtured an intercolonial rivalry, an isolationist outlook, a provincialism that is almost a disease, which are among the most striking characteristics, as they are among the most difficult to eradicate, of the 20th century”.

Dear Editor, Many people asked me why I did not respond to Minister Harmon promptly.

Dear Editor, I read in your letter column (SN 04/06/2017), a letter titled `New Amsterdam in ruinous state, ministers should visit’ with interest and wish to share a few points for edification purposes.

Dear Editor, Once again this Keith Rowley government has shown no leadership, no courage, no vision and no strategic plan in dealing with our foreign policy challenges especially those dealing with our relations with to Venezuela.

Dear Editor, We are responding to the recent article published in Stabroek News on the 28th June, 2017 with the caption ‘GPS confirms that dredges were operating in Kaieteur National Park’.