Opinion

Ongoing polls in the course of the United States presidential elections campaign generally show Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by a margin not dramatic enough to decisively state that she is already home and dry.

Dear Editor, Please permit me a few column inches to thank Courts Guyana Limited for removing an animated video ad on Facebook that was flagged for racist and sexist portrayals.

Dear Editor, There is a pervasive and irritating habit which really gets one’s prickle. 

Dear Editor, The calls have been loud and many for the head of the embattled Minister of Health, Dr George Norton.

Dear Editor, Have we evolved as a nation? Have we lost all reasoning and knowledge to understand what acceptable or unacceptable behaviour among our politicians is?

Dear Editor, India celebrated her 69th Independence anniversary last August 15 in ceremonies around the country.

Dear Editor, I am delighted to see my old mucker Ruel Johnson has won a prestigious writing scholarship in the USA later this year.

Dear Editor, Before the May 2015 election, like many of the citizenry, I was praying and hoping for a change to come to our country.

Dear Editor,The year 2016 makes it 100 years of bauxite mining in Guyana, and what does Guyana have to show for it? 

Dear Editor, The Environmental Community Health Organisation (ECHO) is pleased to note the “green” theme of the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) recently concluded 19th Biennial Delegates Congress; the largest party in the current Coalition government. 

It was always likely that the negotiations between the government and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) over increases in public servants’ wages, salaries and allowances might, at some stage, hit hurdles and that is exactly what now appears to be the case.

Politikles

Dear Editor, It has been almost thirteen months now and our roads remain in the same state.

Dear Editor, Just when you think an APNU+AFC self-inflicted scandal is over, another one piles on, threatening to outdo the previous one.

Dear Editor, I share some quick thoughts on three issues percolating currently. 

  Dear Editor, Ministers Volda Lawrence and Keith Scott are self-serving and contemptuous of workers.

Dear Editor, The following quote is taken from the then APNU+AFC’s manifesto statement:  “This APNU+AFC Coalition’s Manifesto prescribes a unified approach to bring an end to the cronyism at high levels that is a drain on our financial resources and is blocking our development; to crime, that is bleeding the lives and bodies of our women and youths and scaring away investors; to corruption in the law-enforcement and regulatory agencies in the mining and forestry sectors and to constitutional abuse by the President, Cabinet and executive branch of the government.”

Dear Editor, A situation exists at the University of Guyana where dozens of graduate students pursuing a Master of Education degree at the School of Education and Humanities have been in limbo, without completing their second degrees.

Dear Editor, For quite a while now I’ve been observing various business entities supporting cultural and religious events and there is one snackette which seems to support almost all events.

Dear Editor, What a game! It hurt not to be able to see it on TV in Toronto.