Opinion

Dear Editor, Our sister Caricom nation Jamaica goes to the polls on February 25 to choose a new parliament and government.

Dear Editor, I have read only the newspaper reports of acting CJ Chang’s ruling on the eligibility of Ministers Felix and Scott to sit as members of the National Assembly (when will we get a High Court website to access court filings and decisions?)

Dear Editor I want to say how gratified I am to have seen four cabinet ministers and many central government officials engaging with the public in Lethem at an outreach exercise today, Saturday February 20.

Dear Editor, With the upcoming Local Government Elections next month, citizens of Georgetown will have the opportunity to elect a City Council that will proceed to select a Mayor from its ranks.

Dear Editor, We the executives of the Port Mourant Turf Club would like to respond with the facts to a letter published in the Kaieteur News on Sunday, February14 captioned ‘Concerned over the Port Mourant Turf Club’ written by a concerned horse owner.

Dear Editor, The March 18 local government elections (LGE) will be a referendum on the APNU+AFC coalition, and this is unfortunate.

Dear Editor, The contract meter readers at Guyana Power and Light were promised the $50,000 bonus by Minister Patterson at the Christmas party.

Dear Editor, In Sir Viv’s own words: Q “After a disappointing Test debut in Bangalore in november1974 (4and 3), it did not take long for you to arrive ‒192 not out in your second test in Delhi…” VR “My first Test was a rude awakening.

Dear Editor, The Childcare and Protection agency wishes to once again reaffirm its position regarding media reporting on matters involving children.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s chief psychiatrist most recently called for the integration of mental health into primary care.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Comments by Dr Rudi V Webster likening the state of West Indies cricket to the Titanic disaster brought forcibly home to me that even in the area of sports administration there are anomalies devoid of rationale.

Dear Editor, On Friday, via the news media we learnt of the death of Harper Lee, the novelist whose book gave us a child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town in the United States of America.

Wednesday’s signing of a US$3m grant deal between Guyana and the World Bank is a significant development on two counts.

Dear Editor, The Justice for Walter Rodney Committee calls on President Granger and the APNU+AFC coalition government to release the report of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry without further delay.

What might be considered a minor contretemps in the National Assembly on Wednesday could have more serious implications.

Dear Editor, Many universities across the world are transforming themselves to accommodate new and fast-changing realities.

Dear Editor, President Granger should do the right thing and immediately lay the Dr Walter Rodney Commission of Enquiry Report before Parliament, and/or make the contents public, and further ensure that the Commission’s recommendations, whatever they are, are fully implemented.

Dear Editor, On Monday, January 18, 2016 the Aurora Primary and Nursery School building which once also housed the secondary school was dismantled by a contactor in order that a new concrete and wooden building could be erected on the very site.