Opinion

Dear Editor, Essequibians are high in praise of the coalition government, Minister of Infrastructure David Patterson and the General Manager of Transport and Harbours, Ms Merchant, for seeing the wisdom in having the two Chinese ferries ply three times a day between Parika and Supenaam.

Dear Editor, With respect to an article published in the Kaieteur News on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 under the caption ‘Essequibo rapist still at large,’ please be informed that the suspect was arrested on Tuesday May 31, 2016, at Supenaam, Essequibo, and is in custody assisting the police in their investigations.

Dear Editor, Poor economic conditions in Guyana ‒ high cost of living, poor standard of living, unemployment ‒ is one of the reasons why Guyanese emigrate to different parts of the world.

Dear Editor, I do not know what is the solution to the problems of the WICB.

Dear Editor, It is not without a considerable degree of uncertainty and trepidation that the associates, colleagues and family of the late Prof Perry Mars gathered to bid him farewell on the day preceding the 50th Independence Anniversary.

Dear Editor, As I contemplate more and more the challenges enmeshed in social cohesion and national unity, realization comes. 

Dear Editor, The most awaited event in the history of Guyana has come and gone and can be now considered history.

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Last Friday night, 16-year-old Onika Luke was carrying out her duties as a waitress at a Chinese restaurant at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara when she was shot in the chin by a lone gunman who apparently attempted to rob the restaurant.

Dear Editor, This is a response to the Forensic Audit Report for the Guyana Water Authority Inc which was carried by your newspaper.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, recently pronounced a reduction in “free spending” in the economy. 

Dear Editor, There has been another reported case of phone cards being stolen, this time one million dollars’ worth.

Dear Editor, About two weeks ago I visited a certain branch of Scotiabank to change a cheque issued to me by my employer who has an account with said bank.

Dear Editor, “If our historical truths are being censored by the existing media, then Africans need their own media,” wrote Eric Phillips in the letters column of SN, May 25.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr Ivan John’s letter captioned ‘Kanhai did not retire, he was dropped’ (SN, May 28).

In the course of the month of May the Caricom region has been up for scrutiny either by governments or government officials, or by individual commentators and practitioners, and their perspectives have varied over the field from relative optimism to some degree of pessimism.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Constitutional reform in Guyana is not likely to happen any time soon and if it does, it will not be anything substantial.

Dear Editor, I welcomed reading Professor Winston Mc Gowan’s recently published article `Jubilee milestones: Significant developments in Guyanese history, 1966 – 2016’ in your Independence Jubilee Supple-ment on May 26th, 2016.