Opinion

Dear Editor, This letter is in response to Mr. Claudius Prince’s published in both the SN and KN concerning the proposed new Qatari Hotel (“Ex GNS members must mount campaign against the taking away of this ground on Carifesta Ave,” SN, March 3, 2024”).

Dear Editor, As we prepare to celebrate Ghana Day this weekend, we are reminded that that was the first country in Africa to gain its independence from Great Britain in 1957.

Dear Editor, Reference “ANUG says Asha Kissoon refusing to give up seat” (Mar 2) wherein it is stated that an agreement signed by three parties for sharing seats under ‘the joinder parties list’ is not enforceable in court.

Has the evidence gathering and prosecutorial functions of the Guyana Police Force improved?

Dear Editor, Every year on Easter Monday hundreds of ex Guyana National Service members along with their wives, husbands and children make their way to National Service Sports Complex (the PPP government changed our complex’s name to Georgetown Club, but we continue to refer to it as GNS Sports Complex or “Nash.”)

Dear Editor, How much longer do citizens of CARICOM countries have to put up with the “Pappy Show” to borrow a Jamaican term called the Heads of Government meeting?

Dear Editor, The simple act of kindness of former colleague, Sonia Peters, who has been an Airport Security Officer from the inception of the establishment of the security unit at the Airport, has gone viral. 

Dear Editor, Boy, just when you thought you had seen all the dumb politicians who were or want to be presidents of the US, another one turns the corner.

Dear Editor, Two events usually attract misinformation, once known as propaganda.

Dear Editor, With Dr Cheddi Jagan’s death anniversary three days away, I excerpt  views on him from US Diplomatic personnel who had been posted in Guyana.

Dear Editor, The world-wide celebration of the recent West Indies test match victory over Australia isn’t over.

Dear Editor, The smiling PM of St Vincent as Guyana and Venezuela exchange gifts instead of the words related to Essequibo makes a nice picture.

Dear Editor, Guyana celebrated 54 years of Republican status on February 23, 2024.

Anyone with common sense, not to mention the teachers, must be saying to themselves, ‘Thank goodness for Justice Sandil Kissoon.’ 

Dear Editor, The Guyana Lands and Survey Commission should provide the survey plan for Transport #337 of 1887 to verify Quintin Hogg’s land donation to the Mayor and City Council.

Dear Editor, As a teacher with over 34 years of classroom experience and, in a previous life, as a Social Studies Chair-person with the responsibility for supervising over 23 teachers in a New York School District, I can say with confidence that a classroom teacher is not just an instructor and provider of knowledge.

Dear Editor, Whilst there’s no reason to think that Guyana is amongst the worst countries where the incidence of sexual violence against children is concerned, we do have a problem in this area that is attributable more to a combination of socio-cultural normalized behaviour and a widespread lack of knowledge of the law amongst young males.

Dear Editor, When Dr. Cheddi Jagan died, Martin Carter, Guyana’s National Poet, a freedom-fighter who, in 1953, was imprisoned along with Dr.