Opinion

Dear Editor, Let us be frank and admit that in reality, for over sixty years we have been living in a fractured, divided, wounded and bleeding country related to the politics of race and ethnicity in the contest for political power and dominance by the PPP and PNC.

Dear Editor, I have been following with interest developments in the West African country of The Gambia where the incumbent President has refused to relinquish power despite having lost the presidential elections in certified free and fair elections.

Last June, in a speech that crystallized the new populist streak in modern politics, UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage chided Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for their weak grasp of the new reality.

Dear Editor, The upcoming national conference of the Alliance for Change will ultimately determine the survival of this young and promising political party which came on the political scene at a critical juncture in Guyana’s history.

Dear Editor, I find it very disheartening that Mr Khemraj Ramjattan, Leader of the Alliance for Change, who has condemned the third term for Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo sees it fit to justify a third term for himself.

Dear Editor, I am sending you this letter in a way that is quite unusual nowadays, by mail through the Post Office.

Dear Editor, It was in 2009 when I read in the news that Raúl Castro had lambasted two senior officials: Vice President Carlos Lage and Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque who had made jokes about Fidel Castro and questioned his ability to lead the country.

Dear Editor, As the journey of our township continues I’m reminded of a familiar saying, ‘Relationships are only as good as the persons in them’.

Dear Editor, It has been reported in the news media that a partnership of oil companies, ExxonMobil, Hess and CNOOC have discovered oil and gas estimated by experts at over four billion barrels off Guyana’s northern coast in a field called Liza.

Dear Editor, The present state of Guyana’s economy is a cause for concern for most Guyanese.

Dear Editor, Recent circumstances reinforced to me how dysfunctional, deformed, and degraded this hodgepodge called a nation has become. 

Dear Editor, If the estimates reported in the Washington Post of January 16 are correct, Guyana may gain somewhere between US$24 and 28 billion at current crude oil prices, representing its share of the estimated 1.4 billion barrels of oil from the Liza 1- Well, which Exxon Mobil and its partners have drilled off Guyana’s coast.

Dear Editor, It is widely recognised that if pupils are to maximise their potential from schooling they will need the complete support of their parents, whether biological, adopted or guardians.

Dear Editor, I had the opportunity to visit Almond Beach which is now threatened by erosion and flooding,  with Mr and Mrs Isahak Bashir on a PPP excursion as a teenage boy in the late ʼ60s.

Last September Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan wrote Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green on the Mayor and City Council’s seeming lack of authority on municipality matters being managed by Town Clerk Royston King, emphasizing that “King was not supreme to the Council.”

Dear Editor, There have been reports in the media of crimes committed in Berbice on the weekend of 14 and 15 January, 2017.

Dear Editor, We wish to bring to the attention of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Guyana Telephone & Telegraph’s (GTT) inefficient and sometimes excessively frustrating DSL service, and ask that urgent action be taken in relation to it.

Dear Editor, The input by the esteemed Professor Justice Duke Pollard into the disquiet regarding the interpretation of Article 161 (2) on who should be among the list of nominees to be appointed Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) is timely and most welcome.

Dear Editor, The main throughway road leading into the small hamlet of Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara is in a deplorable state.