Opinion

Dear Editor,  Recently, an audit that encompassed 260,000 transactions, totaling US$7.3 billion, for the Stabroek Block for the period 2018 to 2020 was completed in 4 months.

Dear Editor, As one who has been involved in the trauma, trials and tribulations of our Capital City the longest, permit me to congratulate the Stabroek News for its erudite and scholarly Editorial of November 24, 2023 titled “Government and City Hall.”

Dear Editor, Reference to the letter “Dual Citizens Guyana Passport refused at Brickdam NIS Office”, dated November 20, 2023 in the Stabroek Newspaper.

Dear Editor, The Institute for Action Against Discrimination (IFAAD) strongly condemns the recent derogatory remarks made by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo towards Catherine A.

Dear Editor, On November 24th, 2023, I read the Stabroek News.

“The fire safety in (Mahdia) dormitory as major concern – The buildings have no fire alarm system, Guidelines to use the fire extinguishers (need more with fire buckets and training) Windows have metal bars and doors are locked at nights- to prevent students misbehaviour Fire exit doors need to be openable for emergency exit.

Dear Editor, When I joined the Guyana Foreign Service decades ago, I was made to sign a Declaration under the Official Secrets Act of Guyana; I trust that document is still somewhere in my personal file at the Ministry.

Dear Editor, This year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is being observed under the theme “Invest to prevent violence against women and girls”.

Dear Editor, We are all thinking, as Guyanese right now, whether there is any possibility that our neighbouring Venezuelans to the west will do anything rash about their claim of Essequibo.

Dear Editor, It seems I am the proud new owner of the ‘sea lane’ proposition, gifted by Neville Bissember who purports ignorance of the Hoyte Administration’s original offer through our Good Officer Barton Scotland C.C.H.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News in its November 19, 2023 editorial headlined ‘Patriotism and Geneva’ wrote; ‘No one should be impugning the allegiance to this country of any of our leaders, past or present.’

Dear Editor, I absorb what is going on in Guyana today, and ponder whether we have become an utterly soulless society. 

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to vent my dissatisfaction of the services by the Georgetown branch that deals with our passports!

Dear Editor, It is several weeks since the infamous prisoner release.

Dear Editor, It is unnecessary for me to defend the latest assault by the Editorial and column writers in the State controlled Chronicle on independent media, the likes of Stabroek News, Kaieteur News and others.

Dear Editor, Earlier today, the US, UK, Canada, EU States and a few developed economies, rejected a proposal at the UN which sought to establish a global intergovernmental approach to bridging the gap between rich and poor, by stopping tax abuse globally.

At the beginning of this month President Irfaan Ali attracted criticism for saying that it was no longer realistic to wait on the City Council to undertake important works in the various wards.