Opinion

Late last month, this newspaper carried a report about flooding affecting an octogenarian in Delph Street, Campbellville.

Dear Editor, We refer to a letter of the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) which appeared in the April 13, 2017 edition of Stabroek News under the hand of the Company’s Senior Communications Officer, Ms Audreyanna Thomas and headlined `GAWU’s response to GuySuCo’s challenges has been to call or support strike action’.

Dear Editor, I am troubled .When I recall the news of the death of a premature baby at the West Demerara Hospital, the circumstances surrounding the death, and the response, I am troubled.

Dear Editor, The attempt last year by Caricom to engineer the dissolution of the WICB, and the recent testy exchanges between the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and an unnamed WICB director, may lead observers of West Indies cricket administration to believe the tumultuous tenure of Dave Cameron is unique in our cricket history.

Dear Editor, I met someone who was in a jolly mood, delighted and excited over a book of proverbs I had sold him.

Last Saturday, 15th April was the 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, founder leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (commonly referred to as North Korea), and observed as the Day of the Sun, the most important national holiday in that country.

Dear Editor, Both the 3rd to last and the 2nd to last paragraphs of SN’s editorial of April 7, 2017, recaptured similar conclusions arrived at some thirty odd years ago in a major comprehensive study: “The Organizational Effective-ness of the University of Guyana: A Case Study of an Emerging University in a National Development Context” (Perry,C.O.,1985.).

Dear Editor, The Mental Health Unit of the Ministry of Health (MOH) has indicated that it will be implementing a self-harm screening tool that will identify and counsel persons who have attempted suicide or practised self-harm.

Dear Editor, I invite readers to take a hard look at the long (and naturally very costly) Ad which appeared in last Sunday’s print media inviting prospective students to enroll with the Bertram Collins College of the Public Service of Guyana.

Dear Editor, I have been a pensioner for the past seven years.

Dear Editor, I think that the public is a bit puzzled as to where to deposit annual income tax returns.

Dear Editor, There are some interesting dynamics at work here in Guyana. 

Nothing has happened over the years to persuade informed observers that government is even remotely close to securing the upper hand in the fight against serious environmental transgression by mining operations in remote regions of Guyana to which, as a general rule, we pay less than merited attention.

Dear Editor, Please publish this letter as an appeal to His Excellency, President David Granger to review the performance and conduct of some Ministers of Government and to take appropriate actions to engender national confidence in the economy and security of the people and nation.

Dear Editor, 1) The recent establishment of a Commission of Inquiry by President David Granger to “examine and make recommendations on resolving issues and uncertainties surrounding the individual, joint or communal ownership of lands along with Amerindian Land Titling issues “ has resulted in a vehement and bitter outcry among our Indigenous people including their elected Village Councils, Indigenous Groups, the National Toshaos Council, supporters and members of the People’s Progressive Party; and sections of the public who view the establishment of this Commission as both a transgression of the land rights  and  “an  expression of gross disrespect for the Amerindian people of Guyana” whose fast growing population numbering over 70 000 living in over 200 Villages/Communities accounts for almost 10% of Guyana’s population.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is never an organization devoid of compelling drama; most of it self-inflicted by administrators with authoritarian instincts.

Dear Editor, Georgetown, our capital city, has issues with solid waste management in both our attitudes towards its production and our capacity for its reduction.

Dear Editor, Notwithstanding the deep reservations, the multiplicity of concerns and complaints and the widespread fear and anxiety expressed about the SARA Bill from Guyanese across this land and important stakeholder organizations, last Thursday, the government tossed all of them aside and rammed this Bill through the National Assembly.