Opinion

Dear Editor, The news of teenagers’ involvement in crime is a microcosm of a bigger problem.

Dear Editor, You know a good TV personality when you see one.

Dear Editor, Out of every bad situation cometh something good. In the 1960s, while China was engulfed in a deadly famine, India was edging by with hand-to-mouth imports.

Dear Editor, That conditions in Guyana are symptomatic of the minds of its political and social leaders is obvious to any observer.

Dear Editor, When President Hugo Chavez referred to President George W Bush as the ‘devil,’ I felt somewhat annoyed that one president would refer to another one that was elected in this way.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Freddie Kissoon (SN 16.6.08) attacking me personally – my reputation, professionalism, and integrity as a pollster.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by J Kadaru (SN 22.6.08) captioned ‘There should be a moral education programme in schools.’

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to an article in Sunday Stabroek, May 18, 2008, written by one of our own intellectual geniuses, Dr Ian McDonald, with the caption ‘Uttering nonsense.’

Dear Editor, Two bits of news I received within hours caused me to ponder on the question of exiles.

After nearly a decade of dangerous descent into disorder, drug-gang warfare and criminal violence, has Guyana started to move back onto the high road to public safety, security and stability?

Dear Editor,  It was good to see reported in your columns that the National Cane Farming Committee (NCFC) is being re-instituted by the Minister of Agriculture.

Dear Editor, I was horrified to learn of how fifteen-year-old Shelisha Khan was brutally gang raped, bludgeoned and shot after which her body was dumped on the Hope Estate Access Road. 

Dear Editor, I have learnt, from the People’s Progressive Party that you, at the Stabroek News, have been fomenting racial strife.

Dear Editor, Why senior ministers, the President, opposition assembly members, the press, etc, have not demanded an investigation as to the whereabouts of the spy equipment long ago is a mystery to me. The government

Dear Editor,   Yesu Persaud nowadays is very much in the news, and I don’t envy him, for as a true Guyanese he has done a lot of good work for Guyana.

Dear Editor, Mugabe is being fooled by the army which says it will go back to war if he loses.

When he berated businessman Yesu Persaud at the launching of the Guyana Times on the question of tax concessions for QAII, President Jagdeo argued that the assigning of these concessions was rule-based and according to law.

Dear Editor, In reference to Freddie Kissoon’s missive ‘What is the present status of NACTA?’

Dear Editor, I think it was Isaac Asimov who first related the story of the psychiatrist who drew a triangle on a piece of paper, passed it to his patient and asked him what it represented.