Opinion

Dear Editor, I welcome any healthy discussion about the state of education in Guyana and how we can collectively improve same.

Dear Editor, I write to ask how could something so stupid, punishing and detrimental to people’s health be allowed to fester in our society for so long.

Dear Editor, So about this Berbice Expo: poor Berbicians ain’t get nowhere to go ‒ no parks, no garden, no mall, no theatre, no downtown, no nowhere, so you can’t blame people for showing up to Berbice Expo at Albion.

Dear Editor, It has been six years since fifty-seven workers and five years since a further five were wrongfully dismissed by the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) Rusal.

Dear Editor, As the saying goes: “If you are driving a vehicle you should not only be looking through your windshield, you must also use your rear view mirror.”

Dear Editor, The killing of Police Constable Antonio Dawson is a sad and sorry story.

Dear Editor, The vexed question may be asked: Is it the bad apple or the barrel that is damaging the image of law enforcement?

Dear Editor, Jagmohan Dalmiya, an administrator of Indian cricket who went on to become head of the ICC and was responsible for transforming the financial aspect of world cricket, has passed on and has been given a state funeral in India.

It would not be entirely surprising that a Pope whose origins are in Argentina, though he is indeed of Spanish parentage, would have had a particular interest in an issue that has fascinated Latin Americans for most of his own lifetime, this being the political evolution of a Cuba which veered from the autocracy of Batista to a Soviet-style authoritarianism over the period from 1958 to the present.

Dear Editor, The exchange between Pope Francis and Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is most interesting, since both men embrace different and diametrically opposed perspectives, especially when it comes to politics and religion.

Dear Editor, I note the Sunday Stabroek editorial of September 20 ‒ ‘Wanton destruction’ – in which the failure of the competent authority to save for posterity the “hundreds of documents stored at the former Bedford Methodist School” was roundly condemned.

Dear Editor, In an SN letter of September 19, Leon Suseran expressed the view that the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) at Timehri is an embarrassment to Guyanese national pride.

Dear Editor, My friend owns a business on Robb Street, and is having a hard time attracting customers because of the new parallel parking rules that were put in effect by the Traffic Department of the Police Force.

Dear Editor, The following words are intended as comfort for the family of slain Police Constable Antonio Dawson.

Dear Editor, Yesterday was International Day of Peace. The United Nations General Assembly established the International Day of Peace in 1981 as an opportunity for people around the world to promote the resolution of conflict and to observe a cessation of hostilities.

Dear Editor, I once heard a preacher admonish his listeners to “Stop shouting at the dark and go light a candle!”

Dear Editor, The management and selectors of the West Indies men and women cricket teams have erred in their decisions on changes of captaincy and in the selection of the teams, especially in recent months.

Last week, Chief Education Officer Olato Sam made a public comment on what he asserts is a nexus between teachers’ performance and the weaknesses of children that many teachers, among others, would have considered unfair if not offensive.

Dear Editor, The International Day of Peace, sometimes unofficially known as World Peace Day, is observed annually on September 21.