Opinion

Dear Editor, Regarding the Nigel Dharamlall imbroglio I am working on the presumption of innocent until proven guilty.

Dear Editor, The Opposition submitted its initial review on the draft Petroleum Bill to the media and has maintained that the timeframe for consultation is too short and that they will not be submitting any commentary directly to the government.

Dear Editor, I was watching the evening news recently and saw members of the Guyana Police Force marching.

Dear Editor, Six decades ago, a learned judge in a written decision described a PPP activist as a person of meagre moral fibre.

A year ago, a number of multilateral agencies collaborated on a report aimed at highlighting the chasmal global crisis in education.

Dear Editor, One month after the Mahdia fire – words cannot fully express the pain and grief felt nationally from the heart-wrenching tragedy that occurred at the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School in Region 8 on the morning of May 22nd, 2023.

Dear Editor, On Saturday evening of 24th June 2023 a police patrol from La Grange Police Station responded to a report of noise nuisance in Roraima Housing Scheme, WBD.

Dear Editor, The statement by Chinese Premier Li Qiang during the annual World Economic Forum for all nations to “enable each other’s success” is a great reminder of the importance of working together in cooperation, and the benefits of an interconnected global economy.

Dear Editor, When will we learn? Two months ago, with much fanfare, accompanied by his full press team, and a swarm of paid activists clad in red jerseys, the President visited the village of Plaisance on the East Coast.

Dear Editor, I am a former writer of policy and procedures for the largest child care agency in the United States, possibly in the world.

Dear Editor, It is with sorrow, sadness and sympathy we received the news of the passing of Dr.

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana outsources vital elements of childcare and protection, this emerged amid claims by Attorney-at-law and former government minister, Khemraj Ramjattan that he was denied access to his client  “the Non-Governmental Organizations, ChildLink, and Blossom Inc who usually provide the Forensic Interviewing service to CPA in these matters” (SN 27.06.23) This denial of legal representation to the minor was attributed to ‘standard operating procedure’ by the Guyana Police Force and flatly denied by the Child Care and Protection Agency who said “the complainant in the rape allegation against the Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall had not been denied legal counsel” without offering explanation or mitigation of Ramjattan’s claim; these seemingly disjointed actions coupled with ‘social media trials’ put truth and justice on perilous fault lines.

Dear Editor, I have attached the lodgment receipt for my submission of the 2021 to 2022 return to the Integrity Commission. 

Dear Editor, In his letter “In both the Charrandass and the Dharamlall cases, President Ali comes across as rather un-presidential” (SN, 27th June 2023) Mike Persaud has not really thought out what he is saying by indicating that Nigel Dharamlall should be fired because of allegations against him.

Over the last twenty odd years of perennial losing, die hard West Indies cricket fans thought that their team had found every conceivable way of losing matches and shattering their hopes.

Dear Editor, In a letter to the Editor in March this year (titled ‘Gov’t has scant interest in utilizing statistics in relation to living standards and quality of life of citizens’), I wrote: “The starkest indication of the government’s avoidance of creating and using statistics on people-centric development is its approach to poverty elimination.

Dear Editor, It seems, from all accounts, some sections of society are not happy that a decision on the way forward in the rape allegation matter has not been arrived at.