Opinion

Dear Editor, I would be grateful for your publication of my letter which seeks to clarify two issues currently circulating in the media.

Dear Editor, In civilised democratic nations a Parliament is always a very high deliberative forum where laws are passed and the most important issues affecting people, both nationally and internationally, are articulated.

Dear Editor, The Father’s Day greetings on social media reflected the various complex emotions about fathers, good fathers and bad fathers and good fathers who are sometimes bad and so on.

Dear Editor, Immediately preceding this series the Australian board fought with its cricketers, and the Indian cricketers, normally burdened by Pakistan`s greater motivation to beat India than India`s motivation to defeat Pakistan, had to deal with the additional stress of having such a serious dispute with their board that there was some doubt as to whether they would participate in the competition.

Dear Editor, Can someone please do something to help a young man I saw two days ago in front of Mae’s School.

Dear Editor, President Trump said something sublime and powerful in the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Virginia of the Congressman and his companions.

Dear Editor, I welcome Mr Rashleigh Jackson’s letter published in Stabroek News of June 2 (‘What programmes would Dr Jagan have pursued in Guyana as a socialist?’). 

Dear Editor, America-based Guyanese are considering a boycott of the diaspora conference on investment being organized by the University of Guyana VC’s office.

Dear Editor, Last Saturday I activated a three-day data plan on my mobile phone with GTT. 

Dear Editor, The closure of certain roads to facilitate Parliament sessions and the failure to adequately inform and advise commuters, motorists and the public in general, resulting in traffic chaos, is a matter of grave concern.

When the government made the earth-shattering announcement on January 18, 2016, that cane operations at the Wales estate would end on December 31, 2016 it sugar-coated the announcement with a number of promises to  find gainful employment for the hundreds who would have to be retrenched and to extend a lifeline to the community which faced grave jeopardy.

Dear Editor, It is with dismay that I witness Guyanese being insensitive and unsupportive towards their own.

Dear Editor, We, the former Heads of State and Government who are signatories of the Declaration of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA-Democrática), reiterate our deep concern for the complete rupture of the constitutional and democratic order in Venezuela, the widespread and systematic violations of human rights, and the violence provoked by the armed forces, in service of a regime that already has claimed the lives of more than 72 victims.

On Monday, June 13, the WPA learned of President David Granger’s intention to terminate Dr Rupert Roopnaraine’s tenure as Minister of Education, and to move him to the Department of Public Service within the Ministry of the Presidency.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank President Granger for acknowledging and valuing Dr Rupert Roopnaraine’s continuing contribution to national development, work he has been engaged in since the 1970s, first as a non-state actor and more recently as Minister of Education.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union’s (GAWU) attention was drawn to an advertisement titled ‘Do Guyanese know these facts about the sugar industry?’

Dear Editor, In reply to Joan Cambridge’s letter on Creolese being taught at UG (‘UG’s Aliidee Skuul teaches writing in Guyanese Creole’ SN, June 15), I wish to state: Abee dese estate people gat abee own way fi tawk Creolese an abee wan fi know ah who kine Creolese dem ah teach ah UG as Guyanese Creolese because none ah abee nah guh guh to no Allidee Skuul no time.

Dear Editor, The Carter Center has made some interesting suggestions regarding constitutional reform.

Dear Editor, The admonition by Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Godfrey Statia about possible sanctions should there be a continued breach of confidentiality at the GRA, was criticized as “creating a repressive atmosphere” by a letter writer in the June 12 edition of Kaieteur News.