Opinion

Dear Editor, The appointing of members to the Local Government Commission under the present construction of the law will open a new political battleground for the PPP/C and the government.

Dear Editor, Recent reports in the print and electronic media indicate that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) which has been doing an excellent job so far applied to the court for a warrant to search the home of the former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall for, among other things, 15 Commonwealth Law Reports.

Dear Editor, It is always a risk to try and simplify technical issues in a short article and it is clear from Desmond Thomas’s letter (‘Economists don’t typically…’ Sunday Stabroek, July 2) that I was not sufficiently clear in what I attempted to do in my article entitled ‘The current account balance, savings and foreign investment in Guyana’ published on June 25, 2017 in Sunday Stabroek .

Dear Editor, I refer to the article entitled ‘The magnificent Serena Williams’ in the Saturday, July 1, 2017 edition of your newspaper.

Dear Editor, Sugar workers all over, but especially those once attached to the Wales Estate, are trapped in a bad place. 

Dear Editor, A young man was shot to death yesterday as he attempted to rob Republic Bank’s Water Street Branch.

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana should waive VAT on private education with immediate effect.

Dear Editor, A letter in the name of Lincoln Lewis headlined ‘The deformities do not lie in the structure but in the refusal of persons to comply with the structure’ in your edition of July 3 caught my attention.

In February, 1970, some members of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), a group based in London, England travelled to Guyana for ‘A Caribbean Writers and Artists Convention’, organized by the government as part of the country’s celebrations on becoming a republic.

Dear Editor, It has oft been remarked that “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”

Dear Editor, This year’s Grade 6 youngsters drove themselves ever upward in high gear. 

Dear Editor, I joined a long, slow moving but fairly orderly line of traffic Sunday afternoon at Schoonord, on the Western side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

Dear Editor, Once again, the children of Guyana have suffered the consequences of the traumatizing and obsolete National Grade 6 Assessment, known as Common Entrance.

Dear Editor, The Organization of American States (OAS) held a foreign ministers’ meeting from June 19-21 in Cancun, Mexico, for the principal purpose of addressing “the situation in Venezuela”.

Dear Editor, A group of Guyanese Americans paid glowing tribute to the Enmore Martyrs last Sunday afternoon at the Liberty Palace in Richmond Hill, NYC.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to express my dissatisfaction on the infrastructural fragilities of New Amsterdam.

Hardly a day has passed over the last two years without there being some reference to oil and gas in the local media.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Henry Jeffrey’s contention ‘Lincoln Lewis: reasoning away structures’ (SN June 28).

Dear Editor, I am a pensioner widower living alone. On January 29, 2017 I was lashed by a bandit and my jaw was broken.