Opinion

Dear Editor, The dismissal of the criminal charges against Mr Carvil Duncan has several implications.

Dear Editor, Over the past year, Guyana’s big find has been hard to miss.

Dear Editor, I applaud Mr Paul Fraser for coming to the rescue of a handicapped man who was allegedly assaulted by a minibus driver on the East Bank road, and wish to congratulate David Ramnarine (ag) Commissioner of Police for placing the driver before the court.

Dear Editor, Why is it some people feel they have a right to do to others as they like with impunity. 

Dear Editor, Since the general election in 2015, I have been advocating that the Ministry of Health place pictures of President David Granger and Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo in health centres across Guyana.

After years of frustration and terror for some and a US$20,000 consultancy, Guyana’s 911 police emergency service remains problematic.

Dear Editor, Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation is an event that seems locked in a proverbial time capsule even though the very existence of the tens of thousands of Christian denominations today tell the silent tale of one man’s revolution against the powers of the day.

Dear Editor, It appears that we are not only wasting the resources of our police, our incarceration system and our courts, but we are propagating an unethical, and uneconomic double-standard when we relentlessly prosecute illegal aliens and persons who have overstayed their permit in Guyana.

Dear Editor, On the subject of value added by the timber industry, this is a great ‘catch cow’ phrase and, to the ill-informed policy makers, it puts them at risk of further destroying the private sector timber industry by hindering the export of logs with the imposition of unrealistic levies (20%) on imagined prices.

Dear Editor, The Indian Action Committee (IAC) wishes to congratulate and commend President Granger for swearing in the members of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) which he said he would do by the end of October 2016.

Dear Editor, In observance of Agriculture Month which is from 1st October to 31st October, each and every year, as expected a lot of statements were made, messages sent and activities held throughout the country.

Dear Editor The response by the Ministry of Finance (‘Ministry regrets poor service at Student Loan Agency,’ SN, October 24) to my letter about service quality at the Student Loan Agency on the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana (October 21), was much more than I expected.

Dear Editor, Paul Fraser (‘Minibus driver assaulted handicapped man after accident while GDF soldier watched on’, SN, October 28) by his spontaneous courageous  and heroic response to defend a stranger ‒ a handicapped man ‒ against an alleged assault by a minibus driver proved that there are still decent and caring people around .

Dear Editor, I am mesmerized by the tone of Lincoln Lewis’ letter, ‘During the Jagdeo presidency crime was rampant, fear stalked the land’ (SN, October 22).

Dear Editor, The USA presidential debates have brought to the fore anew what many of us are aware of yet seem to be pretending not to know:  what hypocrisy looks like.

As reported in this newspaper over the weekend, the increasing turmoil against the government of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has received the attention of other governments of Latin America.

Dear Editor,   The current APNU+AFC administration need to seriously reconsider its position regarding the sugar industry and by extension sugar workers, which despite the challenges still remains the single largest employer of labour.