Opinion

Dear Editor, A few days ago a three-toed sloth was seen in the burning sun on a road in Campbellville.

Dear Editor, The PPP is in dire straits. One wonders if the party has actually lost its way, as Ralph Ramkarran noted, or if the party is totally oblivious to the dilemma in which it finds itself.

An assessment of how the new government has been performing would produce something of a mixed verdict.

Dear Editor, We note with grave disappointment that the Police Service Commission has refused to fire Inspector Narine Lall, who was found by the High Court to have tortured Twyon Thomas, a 14-year-old West Demerara teenager in 2009 by soaking his genitals with methylated spirts and setting them alight, action that those who believe in the inalienable right of all persons not to be subjected to torture have justifiably expected to result in expulsion from the police force.

Dear Editor, There are a number of issues affecting the residents of Hosororo-Kumaka-Mabaruma, and other satellite villages in this sub-region of the North West District.

Dear Editor, As a patriotic Guyanese I wish to express my concern over the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

Dear Editor,   My deepest condolences to the family and relatives of the twin brothers Ricardo and Renaldo Ram who lost their lives after being involved in an accident at Harlem on the West Coast Demerara on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter appearing in the Guyana Chronicle the day before yesterday which refers to a letter published by the Guyana Times on July 17, from D Charles.

Dear Editor, Every time I pause to read these days, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is on the job, on the move, in the action, and registering some success.

Dear Editor,   During the last several years of the PPP’s tenure in office, the party began to develop a strange anti-Americanism.

Dear Editor, A collaboration with the Netherlands is useful to solve our drainage problems.

Even within the context of recent cases of US police brutality, the death of Sandra Bland, a young black woman arrested by a Texan policeman after a traffic stop two weeks ago, is deeply troubling.

Politikles

Dear Editor, The word accountability is used indiscriminately so often that it has become a meaningless buzz word, especially for those in leadership positions.

Dear Editor,   For some years I have been responding to invitations to the public from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consider the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of Pharsalus Gold Inc.

Dear Editor,   The recent fire at Robb and Camp Streets has reinforced the necessity for having workable fire hydrants in the city and its environs.

Dear Editor,   The TV news channels were replete with depressing scenes of a most dilapidated Bourda Market – leaking from the roof, and flooding at the floor ‒ while a host of vendors complained about the prolonged lack of maintenance and repairs; of the threat of waterborne disease; of the stench of large amounts of garbage; of the loss of revenue and customers; and of still having to pay the statutory rental.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago your newspaper carried a letter from me in which I wrote that the police need to partner with former criminals to aid in the reduction of the current crime rate and also solve old crimes.

Dear Editor, Guyanese have a way of saying that ‘every skin-teeth na laugh’, meaning that we should be careful not to interpret every smile as a gesture of approval.