Opinion

Dear Editor, Recently I read of another unnecessary road death – Trem Williams driving his car on Aubrey Barker Road who was killed by yet another speeding minibus.

Dear Editor, The new Prime Minister of Jamaica, young Andrew Holness made a very mature call for partnership minutes after he was sworn in as the new head of government of the most populated English-speaking country in the Caribbean.

It ought to have come as no surprise that the APNU-AFC administration has taken this long to announce the names of its heads of mission – ambassadors and high commissioners – to those countries with which Guyana has resident diplomatic relations, even though the very names that were eventually made public last week were being bandied about for many months.

Dear Editor, Parika Stelling is very congested. There is a big, wide, rotten hole on the wharf 40×40, with lots of old wood around the place where vehicles park.

Dear Editor, The Working People’s Alliance Overseas Associates (WPAOA) would like to express our condolence and sympathy to the families of the 17 inmates at the Georgetown prison who lost their lives in the fire, in the ensuing riot, and the attempt of the prison authorities to bring the situation under control.

Dear Editor, Disregard for one moment the messenger and consider the message: Accepting that self-preservation is nature’s first law, what would have changed in the last eight years that would have made the prisoners respond in the way they did some three days ago and, equally important, having seen the consequences of that response, ie, 17 dead and scores of others injured, why would the response be repeated the next day, knowing that the assumed risk is fatal.

Dear Editor, Early this past week, SN (Feb 29) published an editorial which ruminated on the ambitious prospect of a Public Service Staff College, pronouncements on which were highlighted after the President’s visit to GuySuCo’s Ogle Head Office compound on Friday 26 February last.

Dear Editor, There has been a public outcry since Junior Minister of Communities Valerie Patterson said in her interview with Demerara Waves “We are coming after you,” threatening those who were allocated house lots but who haven’t built on them that she will confiscate them.

Dear Editor, I have long come to the conclusion that there is a hard-core segment of Guyanese society, predominantly African Guyanese, that would never under any circumstances come to grips with the fact that the PNC and its founder-leader, Mr Forbes Burnham, committed grave excesses when they occupied the seat of government.

Dear Editor, When I saw a senior medical staff member at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation on television implying that the prisoners who suffered burns should not have been taken immediately to the hospital without first being examined by medical personnel at the Georgetown Prison infirmary, I remembered my First Aid instructions as a young police recruit.

Dear Editor, I have noticed from two Hindu calendars two different dates for this year’s Phagwah celebrations.

Dear Editor, Voters should consider voting for the minor parties and independent candidates as the three major parties (PPP, PNC, AFC) have failed the nation.

Dear Editor, I was so amused by ‘Politikles’ that it caused me to make an off-the-cuff mini-resolution to keep track of the artistry, insight and wit of our unmatched cartoonist, Mr P Harris.

Dear Editor, It seems that before the end of this year a few more countries will abolish appeals to the Privy Council and accept the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as their final court.

By any measure the loss of 17 lives at one time is a disaster of monumental proportions and requiring the most rigorous examination and inquiry.

Politikles

The events of last Thursday which ended so tragically are more associated with the news emanating from Brazil, Venezuela or Mexico, than with Georgetown, Guyana.

Dear Editor, It took the death of seventeen persons at the Camp Street Gaol on the morning of Thursday 3rd of March, 2016, to remind Guyanese, long conditioned to the seething anger and discontent at that location in the heart of the city, of the dangerously deplorable conditions at Camp Street.