Opinion

Dear Editor, After reading GHK Lall’s reflections in his letter to SN, titled ‘President must reach every opportunity to be chorister-in-chief on social cohesion’ (June 20) I feel behoved to urge my fellow Guyanese (and, at times, the government ) to address the matter of social cohesion with less flourishing rhetoric and more with a conceptual and practical understanding of how to achieve this national goal.

Dear Editor, Mr Lincoln Lewis’ letter in your June 20 issue captioned ‘No constitution will bring about desired results if its provisions are ignored by the political leadership’ has prompted me to several regretful thoughts about the plight of my country.

Dear Editor, I call upon the government to expeditiously address the challenges faced by residents living within Mocha-Arcadia.

Dear Editor, Thirty-six years haven’t seemed to erase or dull the misrepresentations, falsehoods, ignorance, disparagements and, I might even add, a kind of grudge that have been perpetrated and perpetuated by some people against one of our finest heroes ‒ Walter Rodney. 

Dear Editor, An influential Indian critic described the central bank head of that country, Raghuram Rajan, as “mentally not fully Indian.” 

The Brickdam Secondary School brouhaha is one of those irritating distractions inflicted upon us from time to time, but which invariably could be minimized through the application of good sense.

Politikles

Dear Editor, I was driving out of Foulis (Enmore) on Saturday night about 10.30 pm.

Dear Editor, Friday, June 10 will remain a legal landmark in Berbice when a man was convicted at the Albion Magistrate’s Court by Magistrate Mittelholzer and was fined $50,000 or one month’s imprisonment for disposing of garbage in a public place contrary to Regulation 3 of the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) (No 7 of 2013).

Dear Editor, It appears that the president has lost his appetite, or at least some of it. 

Dear Editor, Two articles recently published in Stabroek News on Wednesday, June 1, reopened the debate on the need for executive power-sharing, to address the historic racial/political divide in Guyana.

Dear Editor, As we recognized the 36th anniversary of the assassination of Dr.

Dear Editor, I read with interest the strong advocacy made by a senior US official, Mr.

Dear Editor, From news reports, it appears that there is a severe shortage of cereal in Venezuela.

Dear Editor, Let me first wish outgoing Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy, Bryan Hunt all the best in his future endeavours.

The announcement on Friday that Indian company Fedders Lloyd had been prohibited from participating in the proposed construction of the Specialty Hospital is a lesson about rectitude in public procurement, one that the APNU+AFC government failed to heed just months into its administration.

Politikles

Dear Editor, On January 10, 2014 a Caricom Science &Technology Committee was launched to promote the development of S&T in Caricom as a tool for economic development by working closely with all governments and scientific organizations in the region, and to serve as an advisory body to the Prime Minister responsible for S&T in Caricom, Prime Minister Keith Mitchell of Grenada.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force Office of Professional Responsibility is currently conducting an investigation following an article in Friday’s Stabroek News on page 16 captioned ‘Minibus driver claims attacked by police’, which alleges that members of the Force were much less than professional in their handling of what appears at face value to have been the commission of minor traffic offences.

Dear Editor,   This is being written to clear the misinformation that has been in the news this past week, which is purported to come from the Childcare & Protection Agency (CPA); the statement that children in institutional care dropped by 25 per cent.