Opinion

Dear Editor, While the EPA and the Pesticides Board are fiddling with regard to the granting of approval to do aerial spraying, the rice farmers are now facing the brunt of the assault from widespread paddy bug infestation.

Sunday Cartoons

Dear Editor This past week several of my fellow Buxtonions returned to the Ancestors.

Politicians live in a different dimension from the rest of us, which is why they are frequently incapable of relating their actions to their words, or of following through on matters of principle.

Dear Editor, Fifty years of Independence is surely a cause for great celebration! 

Dear Editor, As we approach one year of the Granger administration, and with a sluggish economy and persistent worries by the working and private sector class, one is left to ponder why the government hasn’t articulated a coherent and comprehensive economic vision for its current full term in office.

Dear Editor, The Club Championship basketball game on March 22 failed to produce a victor because players first on one team, and then on the other, walked off the court.

Dear Editor, I have been seeing the numerous reports in the media about these forensic audits that were commissioned by the APNU+AFC government. 

Dear Editor, I consider the rice deal with the two Jamaican companies a sour one, involving as it does US$400 a metric tonne for long-grain white rice on a long-term contract.

Dear Editor, In the press recently there have been reports that Guyanese nationals residing in the United States who plan to travel home for the celebration of the nation’s Golden Jubilee of Independence in May 2016 are expressing concerns about crime here.

Dear Editor, The things I see, hear and read about daily surely lend credence to the statement: “If poor people live by the rules that were made for them, they will die”.

Dear Editor,        I wish to convey my deepest condolences to the relatives and friends of the late Mr Clyde Roopchand who passed away on March 30th, 2016.

Dear Editor, The astronomical increase of 500% in the rent for stands on Merriman Mall for vendors is unconscionable.

Dear Editor, Despite what former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds wrote about the absence of corruption in agencies which fell under his former portfolio, and which was published in your March 31 edition, the economic hardship, institutional weaknesses, criminal justice inefficiencies as well as ethnic fractures in this country did provide fertile ground for corruption during the last administration.

Politikles

Yesterday an animated gif and a misjudged prank provoked the ire of thousands of Internet users.

Dear Editor, I looked at a replay of the March 31 World Cup semi-final between India and the West Indies (which the West Indies won by scoring 146 runs in boundaries and sixes as opposed to 92 by India) in a less anxious frame of mind than watching it live, and noticed Shane Warne broadcasting while Samuels was at the wicket.

Dear Editor, Transgender persons in Guyana face grave levels of discrimination, harassment and humiliation and social exclusion in their daily lives.

Dear Editor, I am fully aware that the law often works in mysterious ways, and that justice is only occasionally one of the wonders it performs.

Dear Editor, Though somewhat disappointed I’m not in the least surprised that Mr Samuel Wright, leader of the Linden 2025 team at the just concluded local government elections was not even accorded a fleeting chance of being considered for Mayor of Linden.