Opinion

Dear Editor, These are some questions addressed to Commissioners Joseph Singh, Derrick John and Joycelin Kim-Kyte Thomas which are not apparently covered by the 3-month-long Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Mahdia dormitory fire Dear Commissioners We refer to your Report dated January 2024 on the fire that engulfed the dormitory for girls in Mahdia, Region 8, on 21 May 2023.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Finance has kept his Budget Speech promise to come back to the National Assembly to a) raise the debt ceiling b) to revise upward the NRF withdrawal rule and c) saving an increasing share of the inflows into the Fund.

Dear Editor, A country with a leadership that refuses to recognize between available funds and the management skills and prudence to effectively manage those monies is doomed to failure and will be responsible for the wisdom of ‘willful waste brings woeful want’ and worst, opening the door to corruption and greed, the cancer that only brings pain, suffering and distress to this and succeeding generations.

Dear Editor, When discussing budgets, President Joe Biden often uses a quote that he attributes to his father: “Don’t tell me what you value.

As a modern form of influence on the lives of individuals, social media platforms of the digital age make television, the previous generations’ vehicle for the cues of choice, appear almost sloth-like when it comes to creating new trends and fads, and pinpointing new avenues in fashion and lifestyles.

Dear Editor,  I am quite sure that many Guyanese, like myself, are confused about this issue.

Dear Editor, I feel sorry for Dr. Ashni K. Singh.  I really do. 

Dear Editor, I am troubled. I’m appalled at the alleged conduct of some persons in the House of Assembly.

Dear Editor, The Burnham Foundation is compelled, at this juncture, to call upon the African Prosperity Network to rescind its decision to bestow President Irfaan Ali with its African Global Leadership award.

Dear Editor, Oh dear! Very sad to see both Opposition and Government playing politics in Parliament with the deaths of twenty young people in Mahdia.

Dear Editor The daggers are out. All the reasons given. It must be seen as incomprehensible, given all the claims of racial bias, discrimination and oppression, an African country, an African organization would see it fit and proper to honour our President with an African award! 

Dear Editor, This an SOS, a (sustain our soul) cry-out to the entire world for help… from the African Guyanese Community. 

First the word came from President Irfaan Ali, and then it was repeated two weeks later by Finance Minister Ashni Singh during his Budget presentation.

Dear Editor, I categorically condemn Members of Parliament Anand Persaud and Kwame McCoy’s verbal sexualised attacks on Member of Parliament Juretha Fernandes during the sitting of the Budget Debate on Tuesday, 23rd Jan 2024, and express dismay Speaker Manzoor Nadir did not find such unbecoming behaviour deserving to direct MPs Persaud and McCoy to apologise and leave the House, forthwith.

Dear Editor More than entertainment, music is a vehicle of expression.

Dear Editor, It’s unlikely anyone will miss the massive PR work of the so called development government is executing daily and their boasts.

Dear Editor, IDPADA-G calls on the African Prosperity Network to withdraw its bestowal of the African Global l.eadership

Dear Editor, When I heard of the passing of the eminent Guyanese diplomat, Rudy Insanally I was moved to write about the experience I had in my interaction with him when I served as Ambassador of Colombia to Guyana, Suriname and CARICOM.