Opinion

Dear Editor, Many assumed that Mash 2016 activities would have been a passing memory due to the grand celebration of the fifty years’ jubilee.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to the article captioned, ‘Nagamootoo says suffered “major disqualifications” while in PPP’, in the Stabroek News of February 10.

Dear Editor, The caption ‘Ministers promise big improvements for Kwakwani and Ituni’ and the story which follows is something that readers have grown accustomed to (SN, February 10).

Dear Editor, There is a reason why the public sector was called the civil service or the public service; and the Guyana Defence Force, Guyana Police Force, Guyana Prison Service and the Guyana Fire Service are called the disciplined services.

Dear Editor, It is with great consternation and trepidation that I am now reading about the laws regarding the dollar value of jewellery that can legally be taken through the airport and what this to my mind means for the ordinary traveller, especially when that cost is added to the foreign currency that is on your person.

Dear Editor, Here we go again: another row over money between the West Indian cricketers and the WICB.

Dear Editor, I have followed the debates and conversations surrounding the government’s ban on used vehicle tyres and having listened, I came to the conclusion that the decision was not well thought through.

Dear Editor, Understanding the world of popular music can be very challenging at times, particularly when there may be outright attempts by mainstream powers to either ignore and/or wrongly label sounds that they either do not understand or refuse to accept.

Dear Editor, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) celebrated 25 years as a company in Guyana, but the fact remains that customers have nothing to celebrate.

February 7 marked the 54th anniversary of the imposition of the US trade embargo against Cuba.

Dear Editor, We’re just a few weeks away from electing new community representatives at Local Government Elections.

Dear Editor, I follow up to contributor M Maxwell’s latest on this topic, his long missive carried in your Saturday edition, February 6.

Dear Editor, I read with great interest newspaper reports about the statement made by the US Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway in relation to the setting up of a DEA office in Georgetown, the tracking down of illegally acquired money in the US, the sharing of evidence between the US and Guyana as regards drug-related and money-laundering offences, etc.

Dear Editor, There is a saying that old habits die hard and this latest situation with the colour scheme of the APNU+AFC proves that saying true.

Dear Editor, It is not as if the WICB is unaware that the relationship between WI international cricketers and the Wavell Hinds-led WIPA has broken down since the Indian tour fiasco.

Dear Editor, Despite candidate Bernie Sanders sweeping to a decisive victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday in a stunning win over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, many Guyanese and Americans still believe that the United States of America would be graced with its first woman president at its upcoming general election.

Dear Editor, Guyana needs power-sharing among the parties if it is to realize its true potential.

Dear Editor, This country is having an interesting and necessary debate on sugar and the future of sugar in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Anyone who believes that sugar has a future, in terms of impacting Guyana’s social and economic strata (as in the past), is experiencing denial, and is refusing to accept reality because it is too painful.