Opinion

Dear Editor, I would like extend holiday greetings for your commendable coverage and steadfastness in provision of fair and professional media.

A hard time she had of it. The very dead of winter.

Dear Editor, Details, including the full terms of reference or scope, remain unpublished regarding the 2018-2020 ExxonMobil Guyana US$7.3B cost recovery audit report, leaving Guyanese to speculate on the political, economic, and other influences on Guyanese-led RVHE Consulting and international firms: Martindale Consultants Inc.

Dear Editor, As democracy in Guyana continues to stumble, recent actions by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) have sent shockwaves through the very fabric of our nation’s democratic principles.

Dear Editor, Well-known journalist Mr. Travis Chase made a report to the police that unknown person/s shot at his car.

Dear Editor, We Guyanese must accept that the threat from Venezuela has merely been put on “pause” and it will be reignited, even if Maduro were to be replaced after next year’s election by frontrunner opposition leader Maria Corina Machado who said she prefers their Essequibo claim to be settled by the ICJ.

Dear Editor, The ‘stop the press’ statement by Opposition Member Roysdale Forde SC to decry the law enforcement and judicial agencies of Guyana serving a summons on a defendant and to heap accusations of political excess is self-contradictory.

Dear Editor, Amidst the furore of the Guyana-Venezuela (now settled issue), many missed that “One hundred sixty-three persons are now more adequately equipped to seek employment, after they graduated from Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC)…” This is not something to take lightly.

While the governing PPP/C did make some political inroads into the councils of Georgetown and New Amsterdam following local government elections in June, they had no success whatever where Linden was concerned; that municipality remained uncompromisingly in opposition hands.

Dear Editor,  The democratically elected PPP/C Government of Guyana should not assume that ExxonMobil will not renegotiate.

Dear Editor, I have an 80-year-old Church Brother who is a pensioner with a medically fragile wife.

Dear Editor, I have no doubt that we’ll have the usual outpourings of good wishes for Christmas.

Dear Editor,  Outstanding series victory by the West Indies over England, the region is proud of you.

Supporters of the Government and many national and regional commentators have been saluting the summit meeting between President Irfaan Ali and President Nicolás Maduro, and the outcome document, the Joint Declaration of Argyle, as a resounding success for President Ali and diplomacy.

Dear Editor,  It seems some quarters would have wanted the GPF to ignore the magistrate’s instructions in the service of the defendant’s summons, given the furore over its service.

Dear Editor, On behalf of the Ministry of Health and the medical fraternity, we express our deepest condolences to Dr Shoba Gobin and the entire family of the late Dr Neville Gobin.

Dear Editor, I crave your indulgence in allowing me to respond to the recent accusations levelled against the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) in a letter published in the Wednesday, December 20, 2023 edition of the Stabroek News under the heading “Unhappy with Maritime Department”.