Opinion

Dear Editor, I was born at Mud Dam, Sophia, seventy-two years ago and can barely remember my grandmother who was an indentured immigrant. 

Dear Editor, The local government elections (LGE) proved the PPP is relevant and APNU+AFC fulfilled its promise, but Guyana is divided.

 Dear Editor, The last surveys done on West Coast Berbice from Rosignol to Plantation Ross – a distance of about 15 miles ‒ laid out the area into house lots, land for cultivation, streets, playgrounds and burial grounds.

Dear Editor, I reproduce a section of a news item captioned, ‘Benschop says council seat will be rotated among members, vows to fight for disempowered’ (SN, March 21).

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 the Court of Appeal (CoA) delivered an historic ruling in which for the first time in this country a jury acquittal in the offence of murder was set aside and a new trial was ordered.

Last Wednesday, this newspaper broke a story about APNU+AFC Local Government Election (LGE) candidate Mr Winston Harding, who had faced several accusations and charges of child sexual abuse.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s Head of State, President David A Granger, will deliver the keynote address at a state dinner in his honour at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel & Towers, on Saturday, June 11, 2016.

Dear Editor, I would like to make a few points clear for the public about where I, as a member of the Guyana National Broadcast Authority (GNBA) stand on the matter of the issuance of the 12 radio licences.

Dear Editor, The local government elections are over, and as one analyses the results and feedback from the electorate throughout Guyana, it is evident that our country is racially divided and the larger parties won because people voted solidly along ethnic lines or out of party loyalty, and not because the parties had better representatives or programmes.

Dear Editor, The recent local government elections, despite a relatively low voter turnout, have demonstrated in no uncertain terms that voting behaviour remains basically the same with the two main parties, namely the PPP/C and the APNU+AFC dominating the electoral space.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter published in Kaieteur News of March 18, captioned ‘UG and Vincent Alexander have been cruel to us’ by Sheik Mustapha.

Dear Editor, The points raised in Frank Fyffe’s letter captioned ‘How do we prevent the minds of our children from being polluted?’

Dear Editor, Now that President Obama has taken the daring and statesmanlike stand of visiting the friendly communist island of Cuba with his lovely family he should do likewise as soon as he gets back at his Oval Office desk, by fearlessly and boldly withdrawing America’s illegal grip on Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay as it belongs to the Cuban people.

Dear Editor, Regarding recent commentaries on suicide, I conducted an opinion survey earlier this month that interviewed people from all walks of life.

Dear Editor,  To the best of my knowledge the term sub-association was abandoned way back in 1999, if my memory serves me correctly, and was removed from the Constitution and Statutes of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF).

Dear Editor, The year 2016, will be remembered for the BoIs and CoIs: Dr Walter Rodney, mining accidents, allegations against CANU members, incarceration of a ten-year-old ‒ you name it, there is always the likelihood that one or another maybe commissioned for any event, including those which may have occurred decades ago.

When, at the end of December of 1991, the Soviet Union, or USSR, ceased to exist, and its component parts established with the Russian Federation a Commonwealth of Independent States, there would have been much speculation that its Caribbean partner, Cuba, would have to proceed to consider its own status, given the tight integration that existed between the USSR and the Caribbean communist state.