Opinion

Dear Editor, The National Security Plan was discussed at a special stakeholders meeting convened at the Office of the President on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, It is very heartening to read that the national stakeholders meeting in which the People’s National Congress/ Reform participated with President Bharrat Jagdeo has come to some consensus on the national security plan to fight the escalating crime.

Dear Editor, I have been reading your newspaper for a long time and I am constantly bombarded by a number of editorials, letters and columns claiming that there is marginalization and lack of opportunities for one ethnic group in Guyana.

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A news item in the January 21 edition of Stabroek News referred to the damage that has been done and continues to be done to the seawall embankment along the Rupert Craig Highway by the large, unregulated Sunday gatherings.

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Dear Editor, A letter by Moeen Kaini captioned “In some areas there are no house lot numbers” (08.02.09) took my memory back a few years.

Dear Editor, As the people of Guyana grapple to cope with the recent killings at Lusignan and Bartica and the continued rise in crime we need to pause and reflect on the many causes of these actions by criminals.

Dear Editor, As leaders, no matter at what level of the social strata we find ourselves, we must be quick to think out situations before we commit to act on them.

Dear Editor, Amid continuous calls for a “saner” society, the time has now come to consider, urgently and seriously, the (re)establishment of some form of National Service and a revamping of our Army Reserves Centres and other institutions.

Dear Editor, I am deeply troubled with the ongoing attacks emanating from the bowels of the state media on respected individuals who are well meaning in their critiques of government policies – probably an attempt by some elements in the state media to silence every critique no matter how beneficial to the government.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter written by Mr Al Creighton captioned “Dr Thakur acted precipitately, he was in no position to announce any prize winner” (07.12.22).

Dear Editor, Here’s another home affairs minister seeking to steal the thunder from the police force.

Dear Editor, I am of the opinion that the bandits are on the East Coast and were at Nooten Zuil where they murdered a man and took his engine.

Dear Editor, The GDF is attempting to use the media to obtain recruits.

Dear Editor, Paul Slowe, Assistant Commissioner of Police is 100% correct in his presentation with respect to firearm casings.

Dear Editor, I write in support of Mr. Colin Bascom’s observations in his letter captioned “An entire community should not be criminalized for the transgression of a few” (08.02.27).

Dear Editor, I welcome the news of a civil society’s “Stakeholders meeting on crime crisis,” (SN, February 27), featuring AFC/ GAP-ROAR playing a pivotal lead role calling for the revamping of the police force and urging new governance measures.

Dear Editor, In 1965, a mere two years before Guyanese independence, the visionary Lee Kuan-Yew boldly took control of the reins of leadership in a newly independent Singapore at which time our native Guyana combined with Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago were literally years ahead of poor, tiny, struggling, impoverished Singapore.

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