Opinion

Arguably the most disturbing element of our contemporary urban entertainment culture is the various dysfunctional ways in which it imposes itself on normal life, including the legitimate pursuits and normal entitlements of other sections of the society.

Dear Editor, Finally, Vice President Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo and Leader of the Opposition Mr.

Robert Moses was a bundle of contradictions: He never held political office  but for almost half a century he was the most powerful man in New York State who routinely ignored the phone calls of the four mayors and five governors he outlasted. 

Dear Editor, We have all heard the words “Winner take all” used to describe Guyana’s political system.

Dear Editor, We have yet another ‘intelligent’ adult, a former Minister of Government (see SN letter, October 21, 2023), joining the ‘better-for-having-been-beaten brigade’ in support of violence against children.

Dear Editor, It took some time in coming, but ‘better late than never.’

Dear Editor, President Ali has intervened and asked NIS to “close” files by the end of the year.

Dear Editor, Earlier this week, I ran into a true-blue Jaganite old acquaintance from the seventies, who bemoaned that our political discourse is again dominated by “race talk”.

On Friday the public in this country was made aware of some supreme eyepass on the part of Venezuela.

Dear Editor, It is a damning indictment of the PNC administrations 1980-1992 that the Deputy Auditor General for 21 of those months, Anand Goolsarran can explain the absence of audited accounts by simply saying “The fact is that the Government did not submit draft financial statements to the Auditor General.

Dear Editor, Corporal punishment in our schools in Guyana goes back to the earliest days of formal education where it was, for the most part, acceptable in the homes as well as the schools; where there was a correlation of the efforts of parents and educators to discipline students; when teachers enjoyed enormous respect in the community and parents supported them unquestionably and when there was hardly ever any dissent against the use of corporal punishment in schools.

Dear Editor, The Sunday Stabroek editorial of October 8, 2023, titled “Diaspora politics,” evinced  willfully ignorant and malicious propaganda from the autocratic PPP ethnocracy and its racist enablers.

Dear Editor, Statistics from the World Bank Group showed that one billion people experience some form of disability.

Dear Editor, Darts for some is not a sport, but a game, yet the interest in darts have grown significantly, not only in Guyana, but the rest of the world, especially in the UK.

Dear Editor, Please allow me on behalf of the members of the University of Guyana Economics Society to express great appreciation to the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry for facilitating the attendance of students of the Economics Society at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) annual regional capital market conference held on October 3 and October 4, at the Pegasus Hotel and Conference Center.

And just like that, an Australian company which invested some US$90m here from 2014 to produce 110,000 ounces of gold per annum has picked up and fled in the dark of the night leaving huge debts to the state, a scarred landscape in Region Seven, workers bereft and numerous questions about the conduct of multinationals.