Opinion

  Dear Editor, Patriotic and independent-thinking Guyanese from all walks of life and ethnic backgrounds envisioned a bright ray of hope for a long-awaited change in the country’s destructive partisan political culture when the new party Alliance for Change [AFC] secured six Parliamentary seats at the 2006 National Elections and seven at the 2011 polls.

Insofar as we have, over the decades, given back anything meaningful to that handful of local athletes who have ‘done us proud’ on the international stage, what we have done, for the most part, has been limited to affording them some measure of public exposure and from time to time handing out modest honoraria that do little justice to the recognition that they would have brought us on the international stage.

Dear Editor, In December 1975, Booker’s made me manager of their factory and estate at Versailles, West Bank Demerara.

Dear Editor, Permit me to chime in on the growing vehicular accidents occurring across our beloved nation.

Dear Editor, As we intensify the discussions relating to the Gladstones visit to Guyana to offer an apology for their ancestor, Sir John Gladstone’s role in slavery, one needs to take into consideration a number of factors.

Dear Editor, Quite by chance, I turned on to Fareed Zakaria’s GPS programme on which he had an intriguing presentation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), exploring its possible impact on various topics like knowledge acquisition, organizing societies, nuclear Armageddon and visual art.

Dear Editor, It has been reported that the “Health Ministry launches hotline for complaints,” (SN, August 28, 2023).

Dear Editor, Queen’s College Georgetown alum (Sir) Trevor Phillips grabbed a Brinish television prime spot with the broadcast of the first SUNDAY WITH TREVOR PHILLIPS today on Sky News.

Dear Editor, I am in agreement with Claudia Tomlinson (Sep 3) that “Rodney’s struggle is not over: Black History matters”.

Dear Editor,  If I had one criticism of my father Linden Forbes, it would be that he chose Desmond Hoyte over Hamilton Green.

On Saturday, the police force announced the arrest of six persons over the killing of a security guard at the Lusignan Golf Club, among them a stepson of the deceased. 

Dear Editor, The captain is up in arms against the new red card rule and attendant consequences introduced in this year’s CPL  The more pertinent concern in the rile up now was it because his team was the first to suffer the indignity of being red carded?

Dear Editor, There could be no disagreement that the recent surge in fatalities, particularly from fire and road accidents, exacted an extraordinary toll on families, communities, and the state.

Dear Editor, As Guyana commemorates “Amerindian Heritage Month”, let us reflect on the irony in that name.

Dear Editor, On Friday I was in the presence of a very distraught Guyanese of 84 years and it galled me, again, how this constituent is disrespected and disregarded, even bullied in this society.

Dear Editor, From all accounts, it seems the school boys, childish, petty comments on the continued impasse between leaders of the main divide are directed at one side only. 

Dear Editor, As per the late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi quote, “History is the best teacher, who has the worst students”.

Dear Editor, CRG extends our deepest condolences to the family of Mr Cecil ‘Skip’ Roberts.

Two critical points which emerged from this newspaper’s interview with outgoing US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch on Tuesday, related to communication with the opposition, and the importance of strengthening institutions.