Opinion

Dear Editor, Is it constructive, soul nourishing to harbour hope, no matter how fragile, that the geographical slice named Guyana can somehow, someday grow into a nation, a real nation? 

Dear Editor, The change of government last year has not brought much expected relief in economic, security and youth affairs by the APNU+AFC administration.

It is not so much the fact that the official report into last month’s fire at the Hadfield street Drop-In Centre was due to be handed to government yesterday as just what the report and its recommendations will mean for the quality of care that children in the custody of the state can expect, going forward, that is relevant at this time.

Dear Editor, Were these the same batsmen who played in the second innings of the second Test?

Politikles

Dear Editor, Article 199 (1) and (3) of the Constitution provides as follows:  “Art 199 (1) the power to make appointments to offices to which this Article applies and to remove and exercise disciplinary control over persons holding or acting in such offices shall vest in the Judicial Service Commission… “Art 199 (3) this article applies to the office of Commissioner of Title, Magistrate, Director of Public Prosecution, Deputy Director of Public Prosecution, Registrar of the High Court, Deputy Registrar of the High Court, Registrar of Deeds, Deputy Registrar of Deeds…” On the 4th day of May, 2014, the Judicial Service Commission appointed Ms Zanna Frank, attorney-at-law, to the position of Deputy Registrar of Deeds in accordance with Article 199 of the Constitution.

Dear Editor, In 2006, while flying to the US, I was conversing with a fellow passenger and expatriate who had just visited with his dead brother’s widow. 

Dear Editor, Yesterday, while jogging in the National Park, I noticed a gentleman on bicycle with his pit-bull running alongside, the dog was on a leash.

(Reuters) – India’s Rohit Sharma and West Indies’ Darren Bravo have been fined 15 percent of their match fees after a series of heated verbal exchanges during the final day’s play in the third test in St Lucia, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Has the Public Health Minister George Norton joined the growing list of those playing on the gullibility of the Guyanese populace? 

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Voice is deeply saddened by the fact that political posturing trumped the need to save lives as “a parliamentary motion expressing concern for Guyana’s alarming suicide rate, quickly descended into a politicised debate marked by blame-throwing” (as one local media outlet described it).

Dear Editor, Please allow me the space in your letters’ column to respond to Mr.

Dear Editor, The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is in great need of financial resources to conduct its daily operations.

Dear Editor, The Indian Action Committee (IAC) has noted the response by Lincoln  Lewis (SN and GC,  August 13) to the organisation’s  letter to the  editor regarding President Granger’s statement and the proposed establishment of the communal Lands Commission which is supposed “to rectify the anomalies and resolve the controversies which, up to now, surround thousands of hectares of communal lands which were purchased  in the Post- Emancipation village movement.

Politikles

This has got to be the irony to end all ironies.

Dear Editor, Ralph Ramkarran, in his article in SN of August 7, 2016 ‘Guyana’s future as an oil producer’, estimates that Guyana can expect revenues of US$5.5 billion a year from the recent Liza oil discovery by ExxonMobil and partners.

Dear Editor, The issue of the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) grant/subvention existed since the college opened its doors.

Dear Editor, Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Cecil Dhurjon and the Head of SARA, Dr Clive Thomas, made it quite clear that the proposed legislation on the State Assets Recovery Agency will not protect  current or future presidents.

On Friday evening the Ministry of the Presidency issued a press release stating that the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology had been “air-marked” – not earmarked, it seems − for a major upgrade and change of location.