Opinion

Dear Editor, I am a taxi driver that is exposed daily to the emotions, whims and frustrations from my passengers. 

Dear Editor, Is there justification for an arson charge to be instituted rather than a murder charge, when lives, twenty to be exact, were lost? 

Dear Editor, The old saying that a stitch in time saves nine should be sound advice to some NDCs  in Region Four.

Dear Editor, The world’s attention has been focusing on the US Capital (Congress) on the debt ceiling because if the borrowing debt is not increased by Monday, June 5 there will be international implications including for small economies like Guyana and other CARICOM states.

This is not the country we grew up in. It was disheartening to see that after a perfunctory three days of mourning for the Mahdia students, the bread and circus show resumed.

Dear Editor, I have seen arguments that economic factors do not enter into the equation when determining the law and to some acceptable extent this may be true, but certainly cannot apply when the nation’s development is put at stake.

Dear Editor, There is a letter in today’s Stabroek News (1st June, 2023) which attacks me, noting, it says “the deafening silence of the Private Sector Commission and their oft times spokespersons like Gerry Gouveia and Kit Nascimento”, on the subject of the Mahdia tragedy and the Mazaruni prison escape.

Dear Editor, Much has been written and much more, in all likelihood, would be written about the Mahdia Mega-Tragedy.

Dear Editor, Over the past weeks, our nation has suffered tremendously from the loss of citizens, as a result of road accidents.

Dear Editor, After Burnham’s departure from the PPP, individuals such as Brindley Benn, C.V

Dear Editor, The MJVC (9comprised of 11 executive members and five sub-committee members) and its members organized and sponsored the biggest and most spectacular independence celebration on Friday May 26, 2023, to mark the country’s 57th Independence Anniversary.

Dear Editor, I was happy to note that in one of the Reader’s Digest magazines titled “Our Canada,” an invitation is extended to collectors to submit details on their activities.

Dear Editor, Still reeling and not recovered from the horrible and devastating Mahdia fire, comes another fire, another girl’s hinterland accommodation up in flames, in the region which just hosted our toned down Independence observances.

Dear Editor, After years of liberal democracy in Guyana, significant changes in values, customs and mores once held as sacrosanct are now manifesting themselves in different hues and shades.

President Irfaan Ali found himself at the Itamaraty Palace in Brazil on Tuesday to attend a meeting of South American leaders at the instigation of President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.

Dear Editor, Virgin Atlantic has reaffirmed its commitment to the Caribbean by launching inter-island flying, making a wider variety of island destinations even more accessible.

Dear Editor, I write this letter with great concern and a burning desire to shed light on the appalling state of our Local Government and Regional Development system.

Dear Editor, Thank you Amir Khan for taking the time to comment on my opinion that safety and education are interdependent.

Dear Editor, Organization for the Victory of the People (OVP) send our condolences and prayers to the families, friends and communities of the children who died in the tragic fire at the Mahdia Secondary School Dormitory.