Opinion

Dear Editor, Significant attention needs to be focused on reshaping the exam-driven culture we have developed in Guyana. 

Dear Editor, I often read the comments of track and field athletes who say they train in foreign nations so they can prepare to compete at a high level, because we do not have the facilities here to accommodate them, or send them to international meets.

Dear Editor, The classification of ‘racist’ seems to have breached definitive boundaries to assume textures and meanings beyond established configurations.

Dear Editor, I am disappointed that President Jagdeo did not find it necessary to inform the Guyanese people about the status of the torture report in his independence speech.

Dear Editor,I refer to distinguished Professor Clive Thomas’s ‘Rising prices and the relief package’ in his column this week in the Sunday Stabroek.

Dear Editor, I disagree with two sentiments: (i) a multiethnic party like the AFC will take Guyana to the promised land; and (ii) power sharing cannot work in Guyana.

Around the Caribbean many will be surprised at the continuing protestations by factions within the Cabinet of the United Workers Party of St Lucia that threaten to lead to the removal of Prime Minister Stephenson King, or cause the collapse of the UWP government altogether, and a return to the polls.

Dear Editor,  Criminal justice practice in the UK presents the practitioner with unfettered access to information, one of which is the sight of people’s criminal records.

Dear Editor, After reading the very mean, foul attack on Mr David de Caires, Editor-in-Chief of the Stabroek News, by Rickford Burke in last Saturday’s edition (May 24) of this newspaper (‘Stabroek News has sold its soul’), I wondered whether this is the same individual who manages an organization in New York that carries the strange, convoluted name of ‘Caribbean Guyana Insitute for Democracy’?

Dear Editor, The government has spent millions of dollars to build hospitals, health centres and diagnostic centres.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Vishnu Bisram’s letter of May 18 captioned, ‘NACTA was the successor to the Turkeyen Research and Polling Institute.’

Dear Editor, Criminality exploded with ruthless savagery a few months ago leaving a nation already politically and racially divided, shocked and traumatized.

Dear Editor, I am not sure whether you would normally read the Guyana Chronicle newspaper, but if you do, I am positive that you would usually vomit or burn the papers after you have read its mountain of lies and propaganda.

Vast as they are, the numbers of dead and missing do not reflect the true horror of the recent earthquake in China.

Dear Editor, I write this letter in response to Vidyaratha Kissoon’s ‘Freud did not think homosexuality a mental disorder’ which was published in the Stabroek News May 23, 2008, and in support of the stance Roger Williams has taken so far on the issue.

Dear Editor,Behind the nice façade of the new New Amsterdam Hospital there are the daily struggles of those who depend on its services.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article, ‘A survey launch would allow monitoring of coastal erosion’ based on an interview with engineer Philip Allsopp with comments by engineer Charles Sohan (SN, April 27, 2008) Your readers may find these facts interesting as a clarification to Mr Sohan’s comments.

Dear Editor,With reference to the ongoing Polar Beer saga, my  primary concern is that the multi- agency team be allowed to perform its tasks in a professional manner, and more importantly that all those fingered are allowed due process and indicted on the basis of evidence and proof and not on what any high official believes.

Dear Editor,I wish to congratulate the President and the Ministry of Human Services for their initiative to alleviate the cost of living effects on single parents and public servants.

Dear Editor,In recent times there has been a spate of articles on housing in Guyana from some rather important and influential persons such as Mr Peter Ramsaroop, Dr Prem Misir, the Mayor of Georgetown and one of the Peeping Toms.