Opinion

The Georgetown City Constabulary has spent the past few days trying to defend its archaic and discriminatory policy against women, which insists on a two-year probationary period and makes becoming pregnant within that period a firing offence.

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Dear Editor,   The month marks, for those sensitive to some anniversaries, a milestone of unusually powerful significance in the history of the modern world.

Dear Editor,   While I don’t envy Mr Clement Rohee, General Secretary of the PPP/C in his new role as opposition politician and I respect his right to engage, critisise and attack the new government policies or the actions of government officials, this gentleman has a moral and political responsibility to give accurate and correct information at his press briefings.

Dear Editor,   Some quick thoughts are shared on several issues making the rounds currently.

Dear Editor,   There is a place for the youth in nation-building and development.

Dear Editor,   Pandit Ramlall, a stalwart of the PPP, is among a few old timers from the PPP foundation years of the 1950s who are still around, and from whom one can gather a treasure of data on aspects of the party’s activism in the rural areas of the Corentyne and the overall struggle for Guyana’s independence.

Dear Editor,   There is no doubt that our nation is riding on rough waters; we face daily doses of reality.

An old American saying has it that all politics is local, and the current effort of President Obama to consolidate his recent agreement on nuclear weapons with the Government of Iran appears to be confirming it.

Dear Editor, I have long been an advocate of the death penalty, and this belief has been further strengthened in the face of the current ever-increasing homicides occurring in my native land.

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Dear Editor,   I would like to commend all those involved in putting together the National Rice Industry Conference.

Dear Editor,   If Case Timbers Ltd/Unamco had received one tenth of the understanding and kind consideration BaiShanLin receives from GFC, today it would have been, by far, the premier value added producer in Guyana’s forestry sector.

 Dear Editor,   How premature is premature? If a friend drove the wrong way down a one-way street would it be premature to warn the friend before there was a collision?

Dear Editor,   Every incoming government needs the room of a honeymoon.

Dear Editor,   It’s a disgrace to see a certain political party using a couple of parents to picket schools and the Ministry of Education for a mere pittance of We Care $10,000 vouchers for their own political ends, while millions were unaccounted for while they were in office.

Dear Editor, I welcome the Minister of Education to his position and wish him the best as he serves.

This newspaper accepts – and it has said so previously – that the new administration will take some time to ‘catch its length,’ (to use a well-worn cricketing term) and that it will make errors (for which it will have to take responsibility, of course) and make decisions that will probably not meet with the approval of many, and in some instances, perhaps even most people.

Dear Editor, I have been patient for a long time in relation to the minibuses in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Guyanese of all political persuasion were appalled at the revelation of certain financial extravagance and excesses arising out of the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Dr.