Opinion

Dear Editor, As a veteran of Guyana’s politics and, I believe, well-intentioned, Mr.

Dear Editor, The Indian narrative, and particularly, Indian history, should not be indentured to any institution or political party.

Dear Editor, Guyanese from both sides of the political aisle, including those who were involved in the struggle to deter electoral fraud in the 2020 elections, express scathing critique or criticism of the government for its limited or non-engagement of the public and particularly civic groups in policymaking and decision making.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News’ editorial (920/9/2024) is basically correct in its well-crafted response to Prime Minister Gonsalves’ statements and perspectives on the contested re-election of Nicolas Maduro to Miraflores.

Dear Editor, While I do not support admonition of judges, a practice that has gained prominence in the USA (one of the world’s foremost democracies) where the former and possibly the next President, Donald Trump, has been berating judges who are dealing with his cases in New York, Guyanese need to heed the caution expressed in Ms Shamshun Mohamed’s letter “The elections fraud cases will lead to a stain on the judiciary” (Stabroek News, September 19, 2024).

Dear Editor, In the commentary following the passing of Shridath Ramphal, no one commented that he had been chosen in the 1988 “Genesis of a Nation” commemorations to deliver the lecture on the Indian Guyanese experience.

Dear Editor, It is said that the hour is darkest before dawn. 

Dear Editor, ‘Communism is Soviet Power + Electrification of the Whole Country’ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 2022 ‘We have not got there yet’.

x While there are plenty of earnest comments floating around about how we need to reform the Constitution, and while that intention was inscribed in the manifestos of the major political parties, nothing much has happened.

Dear Editor, I write in response to Mr. Sherwood Lowe’s letter published on September 20, 2024, in which he critiques the government’s approach to community development and alleges that it undermines the regional and local government system.

Dear Editor, Land ownership in Guyana is a prerequisite to transform Guyana’s economic food security and family sustainability.

Dear Editor, In every broken society, there exists a group of children often overlooked, ignored, and left to fend for themselves against an array of challenges.

Dear Editor, I wish to draw attention to the persistent issues of fraud within the Guyana sugar industry, which bear troubling similarities to the infamous rice scandal in Thailand.

Ending Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as a public health threat here by 2030 will take much effort as it will all around the world.

Dear Editor, For Guyanese to feel overwhelmed by the chatter about ‘autocracy’ and ‘democracy’ within the recent past is quite understandable.

Dear Editor, The government’s Department of Public Information informs us that students from Baracara are to be accommodated at the newly-renovated Amerindian Hostel in New Amsterdam as “a commitment made by President, Dr.

Dear Editor, Political commentators at home and abroad have sought to characterize Guyana as a ‘fascist state’, ‘practicing apartheid,’ ‘practicing racism’ and now as having ‘shades of autocracy.’