Opinion

Dear Editor, President Nicolas Maduro’s gamble, a call to hold a national referendum on the Zona de Reclamacion, has turned out to be a masterful but short-lived stroke of political expediency.

Dear Editor:    Isn’t it time that Ministry of Education take concrete steps to protect the nation’s children?

Dear Editor, No one is begging Venezuela to behave. They know what the court has ruled and they know what can happen if they act aggressively and invade our land.

Dear Editor, The call is overdue: ‘stop playing games.’  It was Opposition MP, Mr.

Dear Editor, That school in Region Ten that was scheduled to be completed months ago and was given an extension has missed the deadline (SN December 4).

Dear Editor, Every one of us, as I do, must share the grief and pain of the death of the eleven year-old little boy of Strathspey Government Primary School, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, In the space of five years the small South American country of Guyana has become the new Klondike for World Oil.

One of the issues that arose out of what one media report quizzically described as a ‘playful incident’ that resulted in the death of an 11 year-old Strathspey Primary school pupil, Mark Harrypaul, would appear to have to do with whether or not our teachers are exposed to potentially life-saving protocols in the event that a child, for whatever reason,, encounters an unforeseen medical emergency that could be fatal if that emergency does not benefit from some immediate intervention.

Dear Editor, As a woman, I’m particularly affronted by the total disrespect dispensed to senior citizens in Guyana.

Dear Editor, The National Toshaos Council (NTC) of Guyana, representing the collective voice of the indigenous peoples of this nation, vehemently supports Guyana’s steadfast position against the controversial referendum scheduled by Venezuela for December 3, 2023.

Dear Editor, I’m a Chilean-Spanish journalist, and I write to you from Madrid.

Dear Editor, I am not afraid to say what I am about to say.

Given the spate of dangerous violence that has been seen in and around schools it was only a matter of time before there was a fatality.

Dear Editor Is the Government of Guyana contemplating establishing a parallel army?

Dear Editor, Years ago, I had a very good friend, Steven Correia, the General Manager of Correia Brothers poultry farms of Atkinson Field, Timehri.

Dear Editor, Last time we wrote that Maduro’s bellicosity towards our Essequibo was “all political”; without a shred of legality supporting what in effect would be an annexation of two-thirds of our national territory.

Dear Editor, Judge Damone Younge’s ruling in favour of Mr. Shariff Zainul, a carpenter, is a deserved slap in the face of the NIS management, the Ministry of Finance who supervises them, and the NIS  Board – an outfit which fiddles while NIS pensioners burn.

Dear Editor, In his speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez roved around Latin America cataloging several of the despots and dictators that had reigned in the region; including the wars, massacres, coups and the heedlessly cruel rate of infant mortality.