Opinion

Dear Editor, There are likely far more zika cases than those reported by the Ministry of Public Health.

Dear Editor, Why doesn’t someone write a biography of Ramnaresh Sarwan, the best teenage batsman in the region in the nineties; the only batsman in the first decade of the 21st century to have scored 15 Test centuries before his 30th birthday; the only West Indian batsman in the 21st century other than Lara to have scored two double centuries, both over 250, and to have scored a century in the fourth innings of a winning Test.

Given the wide-ranging nature of the brief handed the Commission of Inquiry into the Guyana Public Service by President David Granger last year it is a marvel that its work has been completed and its findings handed over in what, contextually, is a relatively short space of time. 

Dear Editor, Over the past few months the reports of robberies and murders of hard-working, decent, law-abiding citizens of Guyana have left me very disturbed.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Implicit in the initial comments of His Excellency, President David Granger, when he received  the Report of the COI into the Public Service last Friday, was his apparently strong preference for Performance Related Pay as opposed to across-the-board increases.

Dear Editor, The Public Service Commission of Inquiry has submitted its report to President David Granger.

Dear Editor, I am pleased that Stabroek News’ columnist Allan Fenty found my poem ‘I Did Not Begin Anew’ both riveting and defiant (May 13, 2016).

Dear Editor, In its continuing efforts at suicide prevention, The Caribbean Voice launched its community outreach and students’ self-esteem workshop in Demerara in April.

Dear Editor, On Friday 20 May 2016, The Guyana Reparations Committee will hold the main event of its month-long activities for the Caricom International and Regional Youth Reparations Relay and Rally at the Parade Ground (Independence Park) where in 1823 over 200 African Guyanese Freedom Fighters and Martyrs were killed by the British and some of their heads decapitated and placed on poles to be displayed in public at the sea wall for months afterwards as a deterrent.

Dear Editor, A  Canada-West Indies conference was held in the month of July 1966 at the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa, Ontario.

Dear Editor, I understand why we have to beautify our capital city but I simultaneously hear the agonies of the vendors and see their protest not as anti-progress but as a cry for respect and dignity.

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate our cricketers for performing with distinction against all odds including an illegal, incompetent and discriminating regime that has hijacked our cricket for over seven years during which time there has been no elections. 

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express my disgust at the events pertaining to the laying of the Rodney CoI Report in the National Assembly on 12th May 2016.

Dear Editor, It is sad to learn of the killing of Professor Perry Mars who according to media reports died at the hands of bandits at his Prashad Nagar residence.

Dear Editor, This first year has been an extended honeymoon, promises of the moon, and the sometimes superstitious circumstances surrounding the full moon. 

Dear Editor, Today is May 13. Australian and South African teams are scheduled to start a series against the West Indies in Guyana on June 3.There

Dear Editor, President Granger’s three statements on private enterprise are consistent, namely, that “a government job is seductive”, the Chronicle newspaper should revert to private ownership and that private entrepreneurship, not government jobs, is the answer.

Politikles

Dear Editor, All Guyanese are now aware that Guyana has gangs of dope addicts, no different from any big North-American city.