Opinion

Dear Editor, After 50 years of independence ‘race’ seems as much a divisive construct as it ever was.

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing my last letter on the subject of the Venezuelan refugees.

Dear Editor, Oil has been found in Guyana and optimistically production will begin in 2020.

Dear Editor, It’s with interest I read in the news these days about the leaders in Guyana playing the environmental card to the world.

Dear Editor, First I wish to applaud Mr Annan Boodram for his excellent and timely letter on alcohol and some of its major effects on this society, and the issue of alcohol in our culture.

Dear Editor, The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG) is calling on the Guyana Medical Council (GMC) to conduct an urgent investigation to determine the reason or reasons why patient Thelma Rebeiro of Shulinab Village, south central Rupununi, Region 9 to date has not regained consciousness after four months following two surgeries for gallstones.

Dear Editor, When I repeat my national pledge, which I do often to myself, I am reminded that it begins thus: ‘I pledge myself to honour always the flag of Guyana and to be loyal to my country’.

Last month when he announced government’s plan to expand our emergency medical services Minister Joe Harmon stopped short of acknowledging that the emergency response here is downright poor, and that it fails to provide timely and life-saving assistance to citizens.

Dear Editor, As Americans head to the polls in November this year their choice is this simple: either they elect Bill Clinton for a third term or a stand-up comedian for his first.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News article captioned ‘Chair of Bid Protest Committee resigns’ published in its July 27, 2016 edition is false.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the letter published in the Monday July 25, edition of the Stabroek News by Mr Hans M Buer, under the headline ‘Leguan roads are in a terrible state’.

Dear Editor, For years Indigenous people have struggled to cope with the health system which seems to have been designed without our people in mind.

Dear Editor, It was only last week in one of my pieces I mentioned that there are a few outstanding Guyanese in the diaspora.

Dear Editor, I don’t know why more people who travel on the Parika to Supenaam ferry service aren’t writing to defend the gentleman who was made to wait several hours, while other people who came after him were allowed to board the ferry.

Dear Editor, It is with surprise that one reads of reaction to the structure, functioning and legal basis of the anti-corruption unit SOCU, and of reservations about SARU.

Dear Editor, For the longest while I have recoiled from writing about any utterances, developments or postures from the now Leader of the Opposition. 

Dear Editor, With great respect Mr George N Cave (‘Is the leader of the GPSU an employer because he sits on the Public Service Commission?’

Dear Editor, We have watched with consternation and despair, the performance of the West Indies cricket team during the first Test match against India in Antigua, which ended on Sunday, July 24, with the West Indies team being defeated by an innings and 92 runs.

Dear Editor, From public reporting Colleen Hicks, Director of Nursing Services/Matron of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been sent on administrative leave to pave the way for an inquiry.