Opinion

Dear Editor, The Technical Advisor to the Minister of Education has been reported as saying “the Education Act does not have sufficient teeth in regards to the regulating of private schools.

Dear Editor, Since the recent discovery of oil offshore Guyana, I have respectfully posited in my writings and discussions as well as in a letter to this newspaper that this nation carefully guard its spoils with the utmost of zeal.

Truth is stranger than fiction, or is it the other way round nowadays?

Dear Editor, The government, led by President David Granger, has a critical facilitating and enabling role to bring the relevant stakeholders together to arrive at a national consensus to save the sugar industry.

Dear Editor, I was surprised first, then startled by the developments involving the sugar workers formerly at the Wales Estate.

Dear Editor, I write to call on the Government of Guyana to abolish the “education tax” in the form of an extraordinary 14% VAT on parents who pursue private education for their children. 

Dear Editor, There is a rather ugly distasteful, disreputable and disgusting item that has for some time now been a constant and regular feature on the NCN Linden Television Station and has been an affront to people of the town/region.

Dear Editor, In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria broadcast on Sunday, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov addressed a new round of a Western media campaign against Russia including speculation on supposed involvement in US elections and false accusations against Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.

Dear Editor, I hope this letter can reach the eyes of the Government, the Minister of Agriculture and the Chairman and Board of Directors of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB).

After the ignominy of the West Indies’ utter humiliation in the last of their three-game limited overs encounter against England on Thursday, the BBC TV sports news on the following day didn’t even trouble itself to report on the outcome of the game.

Dear Editor, The Pharmacy Council of Guyana made it a law in 2003 that all graduates of the University of Guyana (UoG) who have completed the Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy must complete an internship programme of not less than six months, before obtaining a licence to practise as a professional pharmacist.

Dear Editor, Presidential immunity has to do with the protection of judgement that comes with the discharge of duty on behalf of the state, not ascribing to oneself the property of the state.

Dear Editor, I am disgusted at constantly reading in the local newspapers about politicians, the business community and persons described as criminal justice professionals offering criminal justice reform as the vehicle for eliminating crime.

Dear Editor, There is a very disturbing tendency among some drivers (particularly minibus drivers) who use Homestretch Avenue, to ‘undertake’ while passing other vehicles.

Dear Editor, It is the belief, at least for most, that women should be celebrated not only for being ‘women’ (their inherent identity) but also for what they contribute to the world of work (their function).

Dear Editor, This is the sharing of what I will be bold to claim is a price watch. 

Dear Editor, Cheddi Jagan whose birth and death anniversary is being observed this month is described as a man of the people.

Dear Editor, It is with sadness I read of the passing of Mrs Thelma Ribeiro, who languished in the Lethem Regional Hospital following gallstones surgery, which left her in a comatose state.

Dear Editor, While Guyanese and other Caribbean nationals are proud of Gina Miller for successfully challenging Brexit, she is suffering harsh criticism and threats for her action.