Opinion

Dear Editor, Recently I was approached by a senior indigenous pensioner, who worked with the then government from the year 1970-1987, and later on worked on “A Drainage & Irrigation project” for the government, from 2006-2014. 

Dear Editor, I refer to the KN edition of Friday, June 10, more specifically, the letter headlined ‘The Housing Minister may be out of control’, purportedly by “CH&PA staff”, in which I have been mentioned.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to ‘While I am often on travel duty, that does not affect the overall quantity of the foreign affairs work I do’ (SN, June 14). 

Dear Editor, Recently, my bank where I have an unimpressively small account nevertheless required me to be authenticated by reams of proof of identity.

Dear Editor, While it’s indeed a commendable gesture that Digicel continues to sponsor the annual schools KO championship, it’s my opinion that they should not concentrate solely on attracting additional schools annually.

Dear Editor, We all know that writing an examination requires tremendous focus, and mental and emotional stability.

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Last Friday, teachers of the Brickdam Secondary School staged a sit-out in protest over the deplorable condition of the building they were occupying, and on Tuesday, less than a week later, the Ministry of Education arbitrarily closed the school, scattering its teachers and students to other schools in the city.

Dear Editor, I am greatly encouraged by the governance practices of President David Granger.

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Dear Editor, While the American citizen would have been contemplating his attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the homophobic in the Caribbean, and those who are scared of the homophobic were maintaining the so called morality of discriminatory laws and norms which enable the rage against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens.

Dear Editor, In response to Mr GHK Lall’s letter to the Editor carried in the Stabroek News on Tuesday, June 14 2016, entitled, `Where have all the ministers gone’,  I am happy to inform readers and Mr Lall that I left Georgetown on Sunday June 12th for an official visit to the Russian Federation.

Dear Editor, Dr Patricia Rodney, widow of Walter Rodney continues to fight for justice in the brutal slaying of her husband 36 years ago.

Dear Editor, I wondered from the day it was completed about the Parliament Garden and why it remains closed to the public.

Dear Editor, In my column last Sunday I mentioned in passing that the best advice any doctor or diet book could give is very simple: “Consume Less, Move More” By coincidence the day after this appeared I read the latest issue of the Cambridge University magazine Cam in which Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the university, reports their latest findings in health research as follows: “Smoking.

Dear Editor, Recently the Regional Health Authority carried out a few ‘Outreach’ programmes at Brothers’ Village, Angoy’s Avenue and Port Mourant. 

Dear Editor, The revision of the Amerindian Act is critical to addressing Amerindian land rights, according to Minister Allicock.

Dear Editor, The recent massacre in Orlando, Florida has brought to the fore the dangers of hate and intolerance against those who are perceived to be different.

Dear Editor. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham had the vision of free education from nursery to university, for he recognised that economic growth lies in an educated population.  

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