Opinion

Dear Editor, Definitely I can’t say for other places but observing a few local government campaigns in Region 10, one gets the unmistakable impression that local government elections have become a platform of entertainment for some young contenders, who obviously are having a swell time and are delighting in cheap shots at opponents.

Against the backdrop of Venezuela’s worsening political and economic crisis, the country’s opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD is the Spanish acronym), declared on Wednesday that it would pursue all constitutional mechanisms, accompanied by mass peaceful street demonstrations starting in Caracas this weekend, to force President Nicolás Maduro and the chavista United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) out of power.

Dear Editor, Cognisant of an article captioned ‘Family of Coverden crash victim plead with police to speed-up probe,’ which was published in the Stabroek News om Wednesday, March 9, the Guyana Police Force wishes to clarify that investigations into the fatal accident that occurred on January 30, 2016, at Coverden, EBD, and which resulted in the death of Ann Mohamed have been completed and the police are in the process of seeking legal advice on the matter from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecution.

Dear Editor, March 18 will soon be upon us. It will truly be the return to democracy because after twenty-two years we will have local government elections being held in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I perused the recent list of police promotions announced by the Police Service Commission.

Dear Editor,  Relative to letters about the granting of a casino licence to premises in Church Street, a government release was expected, but none so far has been reported.

Dear Editor, I write to respond to the letter of Mr Clifton Bacchus in relation to his proposed casino in Church Street (‘Hotel and casino on Church Street are lawful’ SN, March 9).

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter written by Eric Phillips published in Stabroek News on the 8th day of March, 2016, under the caption ‘Where will the users of the proposed Church Street casino park?’

Dear Editor, I have been reading about the matter surrounding the issuance of a casino gambling licence to a hotel on Church Street.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Communities wishes to express thanks and congratulations to all members of the disciplined services who voted in Tuesday’s historic local government polls.

Dear Editor, I said it before and I’ll say it once more: like ‘my bones and my flute’ the ghost of Walter Rodney will continue to haunt this land; the guilty ones will have no rest until the truth of this matter and nothing but the truth, is respectfully and magnanimously embraced.

Dear Editor, There appears to be no road to Damascus for President Granger.

Dear Editor, I read the gravamen of this purported Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry, as contained in the report; it is damming, but I refer to a sad and sorry paragraph which says there is prima facie evidence that the late Mr Laurie Lewis, then Head of Special Branch and later Commissioner of Police and two other senior members of the Disciplined Services “had significant roles to play in the conspiracy to kill Dr.

On Tuesday, Guyana joined the rest of the world in observing International Women’s Day.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC government has decided to upgrade a number of Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) to the status of municipal towns before May 26, 2016, the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Guyana’s Independence.

Dear Editor, In the midst of the darkness of the recent prison riots, a bright light was shown through.

Dear Editor, One Saturday recently I got a call from a resident of Zeelugt informing me that the day before a truck hooked a power cable whilst passing and caused a section of the area to be without power.