Opinion

Dear Editor, I refer to the editorial ‘SOCU and the military’ (Sunday Stabroek, January 10).

Dear Editor, I want to thank Alana Seebarran-Ramson for making public, her statement to the Police.

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Voice absolutely commends the initiative of President David Granger in convening a high level cabinet meeting to craft a viable response to suicide, which seems to be sprinting towards a runaway crisis.

Dear Editor, Why is it that the Georgetown City Council cannot simply repair and maintain the famous Stabroek Market clock?

Dear Editor, I welcome the submission by the Mayor of Georgetown that his successor should be a young and able citizen, even if this advice comes from an octogenarian who held on to the position for the last two decades.

Dear Editor, With reference to Mr Pantlitz’s letter titled, ‘There is a division between the locals and the diaspora,’ (SN, January 5) may I state that my sentiments are almost in harmony with his.

Dear Editor, In one of the letters that David Pollard and I wrote we set out the idea of the racist effects of policies.

Dear Editor, Mark Anthony Benschop and I have had our ups and downs in politics.

Dear Editor, The minds of Guyanese living in Guyana can best be described as organised chaos tempered with a heavy dose of laissez faire.

Dear Editor, The first fifty years of Independence could have been a casebook study of political megalomania, leadership failure, and wasted opportunities.

Dear Editor, The recent attempt by Royston King and his city constables to harass, bully and prevent hardworking farmers, gardeners and wholesale produce vendors from vending their produce on the Merriman Mall is a most callous and self-serving act.

Dear Editor, I thought GPL was the biggest national disgrace in Guyana but clearly the proceedings of the National Assembly of Thursday, January 7th, 2016 seem to be competing with GPL for the prize.

Politikles

On August 26 last year, the Minister of Governance with responsibility for natural resources Raphael Trotman told Stabroek News that after the government took up office in May it found evidence of rampant gold smuggling to the United States and other countries and had therefore made tackling it a priority.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on a letter by Mr Ruel Johnson (SN January 6, 2016: `It is good to show we are capable of clemency but first we must show we can deliver justice’.)

Dear Editor, I have been following closely news reports surrounding the deaths of three persons in a vehicular accident, two of whom were in one vehicle giving chase to the neighbour of ‘on leave’ chief executive of NICIL, Winston Brassington.

Dear Editor, I refrained from the recent discussion on the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) because I thought, and still believe, that it is an excellent idea.

Dear Editor, On Jan 7, just after 5pm, a friend and I were walking on the seawall.

If it weren’t for the fact that the incident involving Sergeant Robert Pyle ended in such tragedy, the sequence of events leading up to the fatal crash in Carifesta Avenue on December 30 might have been termed a comedy of errors.