Opinion

Dear Editor, Apart from some of his positions, Hillary Clinton’s supporters peddled a curious narrative regarding the Bernie Sanders’ candidacy.

Dear Editor, I was very saddened to hear of the death of my good friend Professor Bishnodat (Vishnu) Persaud.

Dear Editor, I wish to use this opportunity to respond to an article which appeared in Stabroek News (SN) on July 16 under the caption ‘Parents of children killed say CCPA keeping them in dark’.

Something seems to be not quite right with the accounting at City Hall, or if it is, there is a huge misunderstanding that needs to be cleared up.

Dear Editor, I refer to a report in yesterday’s SN. You reported that 14 Venezuelans appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan who ruled that they would be fined $10,000 and then deported.

Dear Editor, We acknowledge a letter, as published in your paper, on behalf of Digital Technology, which called on us to remove “a GTT sign”, at their Diamond location (‘After two months GTT has not fixed dangerously leaning sign’ SN, July 22).

Dear Editor, I read a recent article by Samuel Goolsarran in Stabroek News titled ‘The social partnership option for national development-Guyana’.

Dear Editor, I leap in full-blooded support of Mr Lincoln Lewis’s missive ‘The Region Five Chairman has committed no infraction in relation to his official duties’ (SN, July 24) which addresses the present face-off between the Region 5 Chairman and his councillors – “a matter that has no place in the formal business of the council.”

Dear Editor, In an interview with LRTVS Channel 10 in Berbice, the Regional Vice-Chairman of Region Six, Mr Dennis De Roop accused the Kilcoy/Hampshire Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) of not being ‘proactive’.

It might have been surprising to observers that so soon after the 37th Caricom Heads of Government meeting from the 4th to 6th of this month, the Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley should have chosen to make an official visit to Jamaica to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries.

Dear Editor, I bring to the general public’s notice the bad drainage system in the residential areas of Belladrum, Region Five.

Dear Editor, I am concerned that President Granger may not be receiving adequate briefings over the Chinese transnational logger Baishanlin and the possible replacement Long Jiang Forest Industries Group (also a Chinese state-owned enterprise), with reference to the article ‘Four months on, Harmon’s China trip has produced no results’ (SN, July 25).

Dear Editor, The Buxton First of August Movement (BFAM) kicks off its Emancipation activities this week with a Film Festival and a Symposium.

Dear Editor, Recent comments in the media on the silliness of the dress codes being enforced at government offices must not be seen as applicable only to the latter; they are also applicable to GuySuCo offices where their enforcement appears even more ridiculous.

Dear Editor, In response to our invitation to become part of the solution to social pathologies such as alcoholism, suicide, rape, drug use, child abuse, domestic violence and the like, Mr Nowrang Persaud stated, “While I unconditionally applaud all efforts to minimize the negative fallout from alcoholism, suicide, domestic and other forms of violence, I firmly believe that the chances of success in remedial or corrective actions are greater, if we work at the grass-roots level where we can more effectively ‒ as indeed I have been trying to do for the longest while ‒ help to minimize the incidence and the problems”.

Dear Editor It is palpable that the majority of Guyanese prefer the retention of the death penalty as the best deterrent against capital crime.

Dear Editor, There seems to be a big concern that the Granger administration is militarizing the government.