Opinion

Dear Editor, I read the article on part of the playing life of Rohan Kanhai, one of most superlative batsmen who ever graced the playing fields of the world.

Dear Editor, How do we stop the talent drain? First, by reducing corruption in governance, top to bottom.

Dear Editor, So the Commissioner of Police and former Crime Chief has finally raised his head, scampering off to Kaieteur News for cover.

Dear Editor, It is not insignificant that three of the top cricket countries, Australia, South Africa and India, have decided to grace the shores of the Caribbean during the months of June, July and August, a period during which international cricket is usually not played in the region, to play fifty overs and Test cricket.

Dear Editor, It seems that my advocacy in the ‘Voice of the Liberal Democrats’ column in KN on May 11, on behalf of the 800 plus nurses across Guyana finally woke up a voice, supposedly inside the GPSU, from its decade long slumber (‘Without the GPSU conditions of service for nurses would have been worse’ SN, May 24).

Dear Editor, Several eye-opening notes surfaced from the week long Jubilee celebration. 

Dear Editor, Fifty years on and those who seek to divide the people through political means continue to win victories.

Dear Editor, Yesterday Guyana observed 50 years of independence. During that period, two parties dominated our politics – the PPP and the PNC.

No serious observer of the Venezuelan crisis could believe that President Nicolás Maduro’s recent, hastily planned trip to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago had anything to do with simply reaffirming his government’s commitment to the PetroCaribe arrangement and improving trade relations and cooperation in the areas of energy and security, as per the official communiqués.

Dear Editor, Guiana or Guyana ‒ a femme fatale, she seemed ‒ changed hands from the Dutch to the British, then to the French, and back to the Dutch, then British again, then Dutch once more, and then the British one final time during her 350-year colonial subordination.

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Politikles

Dear Editor, On Monday May 23, during a rehearsal for the Independence flag-raising ceremony in Georgetown, the organizers of the event saw it fit to set off fireworks at D’Urban Park.

Dear Editor, Permit me, please, to share with your readers an unpleasant yet instructive experience I had recently.

Dear Editor, Having failed to contact the Minister of Tourism, I am voicing my concerns here for the government to see.

Dear Editor, Anyone reading the Stabroek News editorial of Tuesday, May 24 cannot escape the impression that it is based on an actual reading of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Guyana Public Service.

Dear Editor, I read your editorial this morning and wish to point you to a minor correction in paragraph 8, ie, the Micoud South constituency was the original seat of Sir John Compton.

Dear Editor A call is made to the Chairman and Councillors of the newly elected body of the Little Diamond/Herstelling NDC to restore the burial ground where the remains of the village’s departed are entombed or buried.

Dear Editor, On the eve of Guyana’s 50th celebrations I would like to point out the ancient wisdom of Confucius who noted in a nutshell that society collapses when government costs more than taxpayers can afford.