Opinion

A recent incident at St Joseph High School, involving a young boy targeted by several others who could be four or five years older and the initial responses to that assault, force us to yet again confront an uncomfortable truth; the individuals and institutions that should be protecting our children are failing miserably.

Dear Editor: We noticed your article yesterday, “Education Ministry probing allegations of sexual assault at St.

Dear Editor, The reported sexual assault allegations at St. Joseph High School need to be investigated by the Guyana Police Force (GPF), and the Ministry of Human Services needs to be involved.

Dear Editor, Permit me to comment on a letter by Dr.

Dear Editor, Guyana is now an established oil and gas producing country but there remains no system in place that will manage the influx of people, with different cultures and backgrounds from all over the world, and to develop infrastructure and other supporting services to cater for the demands of the rising numbers.

Dear Editor, In a SN letter of Oct. 18, Berbician Mr.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the editorial titled “The Guyana Police Force: The stains on the ‘higher-ups’” (SN, October 22, 2024). 

Dear Editor, I am invited as a guest speaker at an international conference in New Delhi on October 24 at the prestigious India International Center.

This newspaper’s Letters to The Editor column continues to provide  a stage for the public at large to have their voices heard.

Dear Editor, Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has long been a central figure in ensuring the flow of electricity throughout the country.

Dear Editor, The Government truly deserves to be commended for its decision to remove university fees from January 2025, in keeping with the PPP/C manifesto promise and also as is mandated by Guyana’s Constitution.

Dear Editor, With your permission, permit me to explain how total revenue, total cost, and profits are identified in the Guyana oil business, and in particular Liza One.

Dear Editor, This is only the second time in my life that I am spending a night in jail.

Dear Editor The incessant clamor for Shared Governance and/or Power Sharing by opposition forces seeking input and control over governmental functions is a disservice to Guyanese.

Dear Editor,  Recently His Excellency announced interventions that would attempt to address some of the miseries of contributors that have been plaguing the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), but would these satisfy the other complaints experienced by contributors? In

Dear Editor, Every student knows that he/she would only be eligible for an NIS pension at age 60, unless of course there are exceptional related circumstances.

Dear Editor, Can Guyanese ever agree on something again?  What hopes exist that there ever again will be some degree of consensus on anything at the political level? 

No Guyanese who is even vaguely abreast of the currents that are the basis of critical discourse in our country would have missed (if they had read it) the poignancy of the Stabroek News’ editorial ‘Indefensible’ published in its Thursday October 17 issue, the central theme of which – in the opinion of this writer –  is the seeming astonishing indifference of the powers that be to what is now widely felt to be the deeply alarming distancing by the Guyana Police Force from the tenets of its Service and Protection motto.