Opinion

Dear Editor, The level of political and social discourse over the Mahdia deaths has reached a new nadir.

Dear Editor, It has been reported that charges will be made against the girl who allegedly caused the fire at the Mahdia dormitory.

Dear Editor, It is with great admiration I write to highlight government ministers’ interests and obsession over the children who perished in the fire disaster last week at Mahdia.

Dear Editor, As soon as the Mahdia fire happened and news spread all over the world that 19 children died, the Government’s masterful propaganda put out a statement that the fire was set by a student.

Dear Editor, It is satisfying to see Alfred Bhulai state that there is no such thing as ‘unlimited insurance’, we can both agree on that.

Dear Editor,        I have two questions for Minister Edghill on IsDB for the new Wismar Mackenzie Bridge, extension date from 2022 and the cost for new bridge. 

Dear Editor, I have been told that the issue of the Bel Air Park playground has been well ventilated in the press however, today I would like to raise it once again since something does not seem right here.

Dear Editor, Allow me the opportunity to address a response to a letter that was written by Ms.

Dear Editor, On Page 19 of May 23rd edition of the Stabroek News, there was the most articulate contribution entitled “May 26th should be a day of remembrance of the Wismar Massacre.”

The National Archives – if they have, in the twenty first century, now been afforded a higher level of official mindfulness than had been the case more than two decades ago – would probably contain quite a few GIS (Government Infor-mation Services) publications lionizing ‘our Amerindians,’ saluting them as ‘our first people’ and setting down various envisaged undertakings designed to lift them from the children of the forest nomenclature that sought to describe the traditional manner of their existence.

Dear Editor, I never knew that in Guyana the responsibility for school safety was not that of the Minister of Education, but that of persons called Regional Education Officers and a quite different Ministry.

Dear Editor, What is this, somebody working overtime to constrict our thinking, to torture grievers? 

Dear Editor, I refer to Robin Singh’s letter in SN of May 24th titled: “An unlimited parent guarantee must be backed by an asset register”, and wish to respond as follows: Robin Singh argues, “it must be backed by an asset register, all of which would then be under lien and would require Guyana’s assent for any decision involving them.

Dear Editor, The Democratic National Congress extends heart-felt Independence Anniver-sary Greetings on the observance of Fifty-Seven years of Guyana’s Independence from Britain. 

While there is much more to be done to respond to the trauma and grief that have enveloped the families of the 19 children who perished in the fire at Mahdia two Sundays ago, equally important is the establishment of accountability for what happened.

Dear Editor, The calls I received since sharing a social moment, in London yesterday, with Guyana’s most reputable and loved journalist, Gordon Moseley of News Source, a media outlet that is supported by Guyanese from all walks of life, tell me that the PPP is afraid of its own shadow.

Dear Editor, The General Education Development (GED) programme was advertised as a hope for Guyanese; an opportunity for Guyanese everywhere, who did not gain passes of 5 subjects at CXC, to have a “do-over” of their education and a chance to secure a proper job or enter a university and further studies upon completion of the GED course, that was supposed to last six (6) months.