Opinion

Dear Editor,   In the beginning of the movie Twelve Years A Slave, the brother was recruited because of his talent and offered a great opportunity.

Dear Editor,   Reference is made to the ongoing matter between the Berbice River Bridge Company Incorporated and the Govern-ment of Guyana, and also the concerns of the members of the Route 56 minibus service relative to the recently introduced water taxi service between New Amster-dam and Rosignol.  

Dear Editor, On Friday 25th September, between 4-5am, a minibus slammed into a parked rice trailer at Harlem Public Road causing injuries to the passengers and the driver.

Dear Editor,   Former Local Government Minister, Mr Norman Whittaker is on our case again.

Dear Editor, I thank Mr Rajendra Rampersaud for his letter (SN, September 24), which endeavoured to add nuances to mine (SN, September 15).

Dear Editor,   I am writing this letter with the hope that some assistance from the new APNU+AFC government could be rendered to our Yarrowkabra housing group.

Dear Editor, Haitians not welcome, we do not want poor people coming here; ‘they’ have to show cash at immigration ‒ what a sad day in Guyana’s history!

With the Commission of Enquiry into the operations of the Guyana Public Service having only just gotten underway, it is evident that the commission’s journey will be a long and interesting one and that the outcomes – many of them – will spark more political cat-sparring between the Granger administration and the opposition PPP/C.

Politikles

Dear Editor, I was filled with a sense of pride on Saturday, September 26, when I witnessed the Guyana Defence Force on a route march along the East Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is quoted in the press as saying that under his watch the PPP will return to power.

Dear Editor, Mr Barton of the East Coast Cricket Board, in a recent retort to my suggestion that cricket clubs on the East Coast be told the truth, claimed that the East Coast Cricket Board and the East Coast Demerara Cricket Association are two names belonging to the same board and that the names are being used “interchangeably.”

Dear Editor, Since no one with the required information will explain why Bravo and Pollard are pariahs of WI one-day cricket, I will speculate publicly about the reason or reasons, and pose the question, whether they deserve their banishment.

Dear Editor, “We will never bow, bend or break in the face of intimidation and aggression.

The tragic death of Alexis Syfox earlier this month from pregnancy complications prompted a frank admission from Minister of Health Dr George Norton about the difference between criticising a system from the outside and addressing its difficulties from within.

Dear Editor, It could be convincingly argued that our failure to achieve greater progress as a nation can be attributed to certain constraints or limiting factors.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s President David Granger will meet this evening with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro and United Nations Secre-tary General Ban Ki-Moon as efforts continue to find a lasting solution to the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

 Sunday Cartoon

There was no shortage of strange statements on the border last week.