Opinion

 Sunday Cartoon

Dear Editor, The stinging rebuke by a sitting President to a former president seemed, in my view, unstatesmanlike.

Dear Editor, President David Granger is known to have a great interest in the history of our nation, hence he suggested that Ogle be renamed the E F Correia International Airport.

Dear Editor, ‘Coke in Poke’ was the headline in Kaieteur News (November 20) referencing an article about two St Lucian women attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Guyana.

Dear Editor, I noted with no surprise the naturally intellectually flaccid response by the Department of Public Information (hereinafter referred to as ‘DPI’) in seeking to justify the President and the Attorney General’s receipt of a tax-free salary in an attempt to justify their very own existence at the DPI.

Dear Editor, The rice farmers are blaming the government for the low prices for rice, which I think is wrong.

Dear Editor, Harry Hergash is spot on in asserting that “the PPP needs introspection and hard work to make it compliant with 21st century democratic norms” (SN, Nov12).

Dear Editor, To celebrate the 70th birth anniversary of my grandmother, the matriarch of our family, we visited a number of restaurants where we could dine for the evening.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,” said the Reverend Martin Luther King.

Dear Editor, FITUG was re-established at the instigation of the PPP and gave support to this party’s policy of domination and its anti-working class agenda.

Dear Editor, Guyana has undoubtedly descended into a state of perpetual lawlessness over the last decade or so, as is evidenced by the decadence we see daily in the family, schools, in public and private office, and more glaringly, on our roadways.

Dear Editor, It was reported in the Kaieteur News under the caption ‘Govt wilfully dividing Hindu community – PPP’ (November 15) that the PPP is accusing Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan and the government of “wilfully causing division in the Hindu community.”

Dear Editor, Whether the WICB President plans to resign or not, one important, simple, thing he can do, is to put forward the following resolution to the next meeting of the board of the ICC: ‘Whereas it is obvious that twenty-over cricket and indeed fifty-over cricket, for financial reasons, are likely to continue indefinitely, and whereas all countries and all players involved in international cricket benefit financially from those versions of the game, and whereas some countries suffer more than others from the involvement of some of their cricketers in foreign twenty-over cricket, and whereas cooperation between countries in the scheduling especially of domestic twenty-over cricket can be done in a manner that could, without difficulty, ensure the continuation of all forms of the game in a manner beneficial to all countries, It is hereby declared that a 3 man committee of the board be immediately struck with a view to preparing such a schedule by December 31 2015.’

Dear Editor, It never ceases to amaze me what political partisanship in this country will produce.

Dear Editor, Ashok Singhal, an iconic Hindu Leader, who had deep admiration for Indo-Guyanese and other Indo-Caribbean people has passed on.

When Kamla Persad-Bissessar ousted Basdeo Panday, the founder-leader of the United National Congress (UNC), back in the heady days of January 2010, on her way to becoming the first female prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Mr Panday had cried foul.

Dear Editor,   Is the APNU+AFC government becoming a merger more than a partnership?

Dear Editor, In response to the recent letter published in Stabroek News dated November 16, 2015 and captioned ‘GPL’s lack of access claim is hogwash’, the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) wishes to emphatically state that GPL injects considerable effort into ensuring that its monthly bills are premised on actual meter reading.