Opinion

In the December 2nd edition of Stabroek News there was a report about a resident of Lusignan complaining bitterly about suffering from her neighbour’s daily burning of wood and garbage.

Dear Editor, An issue which I think Guyanese need to seriously address is our attitude towards Europeans, Americans, and white people in general.

Politikles

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News of December 3, reports “elation” on the part of labour and “happiness” on that of the political directorate at the decision by the Cabinet to restore payments for overtime to bauxite workers as tax free.

Dear Editor, There is some news that former PPP Minister of Health Dr Ramsammy is now lobbying for the repeal of the homophobic laws in Guyana and Caricom.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to make two brief comments on aspects of your editorial captioned ‘Street renaming’ (Sunday Stabroek, Nov 29).

Venezuela goes to the polls today. These elections are not for the presidency, but for deputies in the National Assembly, which from the time Hugo Chávez came into office, has operated like a rubber stamp for Miraflores.

Dear Editor, The Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) was first publicly discussed immediately before the May 2015 election when Exxon disclosed a “significant” find of oil reserves.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter which was written by Mr Conrad Barrow, which appeared in your edition of Friday, November 27, and captioned ‘RED has revolutionised entertainment in Guyana.’

Dear Editor, Please permit me to compliment Minister of Social Cohesion Amna Ally, in congratulating the residents of De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara, for having a bridge constructed thus enabling schoolchildren easy access to their school.

Dear Editor, The government’s mouthpiece, the Guyana Chronicle, stated on August 14, 2015 that the Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform was established with attorney Nigel Hughes as convener (‘Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform established -Attorney Nigel Hughes is convenor’).

Dear Editor, Having traversed over 90% of the major and intermediate roads in this country, including the hinterland over the years, I have grown accustomed to the rude, disrespectful and uncouth manner in which passengers are treated when there is no alternative to the minibuses.

Dear Editor, I read Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s letter published on December 3rd 2015, in the Stabroek News, in response to mine (‘Was Nandlall “flummoxed” by the Duke Street sale?’).

Dear Editor, I understand through the dailies that there is an initiative to rename fifty streets in Georgetown in anticipation of fifty years of independence.

Dear Editor,   Surely the time is long overdue to rename the Guyana Prize for Literature the Dabydeen Prize.

Dear Editor, By now it is apparent that when Guyanese go big they really go big, what with our high suicide rate, our high maternal and neonatal mortality rate, our high road fatality rate, our high incidence of gun related crimes and now our high femicide/uxoricide rate.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Much has been said about the recent spate of suicides in Guyana, with many commentators speculating about whether or not any one ethnic group or social class is predisposed to such a terrifying end.

Before media coverage of the San Bernardino shootings turned into a post-mortem of an alleged terrorist attack, they seemed depressingly familiar to US television viewers — “just another day in the United States of America” in the words of one BBC newsman.