Opinion

Dear Editor, The exchange on Afro-Guyanese “marginalisation” is of a particular interest at this time if only because it is one of the macabre shadows given new life in the wake of the multiple killings at Lusignan and Bartica.

Dear Editor, More than five months ago the University of Guyana community had great difficulties with actions taken by its Council, the highest decision-making body of the institution. 

Dear Editor,   It was good that the Chief of Staff of the GDF held a Press Conference to give the nation the perspective of the GDF on the two recently acquired helicopters.

Dear Editor,   The current  hullabaloo at Customs  seems to have started with the Fidelity Polar beer court issue.

Dear Editor, “At the end of the small hours”. The phrase that is reiterated many times in Aime Cesaire’s “Notebook on a return to my native land” served as the departure point for some of the greatest lyrical and revolutionary verse ever to be written.

Dear Editor, In 2005 when the licence of CN Sharma’s television CNS TV6 was suspended at the time of the flood disaster by the Prime Minister, who was then the Minister responsible for telecommunications, for what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to make the President appear contemptuous of the conditions of the flood victims, I wrote at some length endeavouring to provide information and explain what we should expect of a licensed broadcaster.

Dear Editor, The news reports coming out of Guyana with regard to the smuggling/tax evasion/bribery and overall crimes against the people of Guyana in the Polar beer scam do not surprise most observers.

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee’s  letter captioned  “Strange advice from Mr Ogunseye” (08.04.15) . 

Dear Editor, Today the world is witnessing an unprecedented decline in the production of food to feed a starving human population; instead food is being produced to feed machines.

The news on the BBC on Thursday that the Spanish police had arrested 87 Nigerians in and around Madrid, suspected of defrauding thousands of people in the United States and Europe of over 20 million euros (US$31,807,929.76 or $6.4 billion) in a postal and internet lottery scam, was astounding because it should not have happened.

Dear Editor, When President Jagdeo confirmed at a press briefing on Friday, February 15 last that the Administration would boost its security substantially by the procurement of helicopters, the aircraft that had been loaned to the Government by the Trinidad authorities was operating within specific locations and areas along the coast and elsewhere.

Dear Editor, I accept that good news is someone doing their duty and bad news is good media business, but it is my view that the provision of information, as a public service, must be balanced and this must be one of the objectives of the Stabroek Business.

Dear Editor, I have noted the recent corruption probe at Customs House, and I am quite surprised at the news it is generating.

Dear Editor,  The matter of the closure of Channel Six TV by the President is very interesting. I

Dear Editor, I am a freelance journalist buying airtime and am the anchor on contract of News Today for CNS channel six. 

Dear Editor, A few days ago, I read the letter about the slogan on the side of the minibus being an insult to women but could not make out, from the blurred picture, what the slogan was and hoped that someone would enlighten me. 

Dear  Editor, I support the four-month suspension of Channel Six. Freedom of expression does not mean there could be unbridled utterances.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News editorial on “freedom of thought and of religion,” (08.03.21) is a timely reminder of the fact that this freedom must not be taken for granted.