Opinion

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr. Roy Beepat’s letter captioned `Wrong date?’

After almost a year of poring over the 11.5 million documents which constitute the Panama Papers — the largest leak of sensitive data in history — news outlets around the world are confirming many of our worst fears about the global network of offshore tax havens.

Dear Editor, Words cannot express the sadness I felt when I looked at the dailies yesterday and saw a twelve- -year-old girl being charged for murder.

Dear Editor, Now that new local government councils are in place, the pivotal challenge representatives and their constituents will face involves the nature and quality of the representation itself.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday we observed World Health Day 2016 under the theme: “Beat Diabetes”. 

Dear Editor, On Thursday March 31, 2016, Guyanese Hubert Devonish, distinguished professor of Linguistics at UWI (Mona), was our guest in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies, Turkeyen Campus, UG. 

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter `There is nothing corrupt about the Minister of State’s actions’ (SN July 7, 2016) by Mr.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Nigel Hinds’ letter, `There is nothing corrupt about the Minister of State’s actions’ (SN 7th April, 2016).

Dear Editor, It was a traffic stop of a different kind.

Dear Editor, Two members of the World Champion West Indies Women’s T20 team, Guyana’s Shemaine Campbell and Tremaine Smartt returned home to a rousing welcome at CJIA earlier today.

Dear Editor, I have just returned from the GRO at the GPOC building feeling very frustrated and disgusted with the slothful behaviour of staff in processing requests for Birth Certificates.

Dear Editor, The private national media and Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI), along with local organisations like Red Thread have made statements condemning actions of Government leaders.

Dear Editor, Like the dominant Clive Lloyd and Vivian Richards teams of the past, once again our West Indies cricket team has given me that sense of what it means to be West Indian. 

Reports from neighbouring Brazil indicate that the congressional opposition is gaining momentum in its bid to garner 342 votes in the Chamber of Deputies to approve the formal initiation of the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff on April 17.

Dear Editor, As a newly-elected Councillor, I am publicly calling on all Councillors, the Mayor and Deputy Mayor to begin discussions on conducting a forensic audit of the Municipality of Georgetown at our first statutory meeting on 11th April, 2016.

Dear Editor, The political growth of this nation and the holistic development of its people are reliant on rigid adherence to time-honoured principles, rules, laws, universal declarations, conventions and charters.

Dear Editor, Forbes Burnham in 1985 noted in his last interview with the Caribbean Press “In life and politics as in mathematics you have to accept the highest common factor.”

Dear Editor, I read with interest an article (Stabroek News, April 5,2016) in which it was stated that a mere ten per cent reduction in global military spending could knock off poverty and hunger within fifteen years.