Opinion

Dear Editor, This is my position: Tacuma Ogunseye went too far. 

Dear Editor, There can be no place in Guyana for race-baiting.

Dear Editor,  My condemnation of Prime Minister Mottley`s act of omission (she omitted to acknowledge Guyana`s and Burnham`s contribution to the liberation struggle of the Southern Africans and South Africa, specifically, on the occasion of the 20th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture) has attracted the attention of some, who applauded her for her action based on their view about Burnham`s rulership in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Politics is a complex and dynamic area that affects every aspect of people’s lives, with different interests and ideologies converging to seek power and influence, but when politicians use hate and racism to incite their supporters against a sitting government, the consequences of such actions can be grave for society as a whole.

On January 10th this year, in some of the bluntest language that she had delivered on the subject, the Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag) Yonette Cummings-Edwards  made a stirring plea for the urgent reconstituting of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the appointment of the required number of judges.

Dear Editor, I am an octogenarian. Ipso facto I was around when NIS started and interestingly participated when their Inspectorate discussed the Rules/ Regulations at TUC sponsored Workers Education seminars at locations all over Guyana. 

Dear Editor,  Last Wednesday, I was a panellist on a social media platform along with WPA’s David Hinds and Deon Abrams (and two others) to discuss “Strategies for fostering Social Cohesion in the era of Oil and Gas”.

Dear Editor, Thanks for the delicately crafted editorial titled `Dr. Misir’s four months’ (SN, March 11). 

Dear Editor, One notes the continuing complaints of so many survivors, as well as Editorials, about the increasing numbers and types of road accidents, resulting primarily from our poor Traffic Management.

Dear Editor,  The clear call for mayhem by an opposition political radical, emanating from the very place where the self proclaimed ‘resistance fighters’ were holed up following the 2002 jail break, and from where chaos and destruction were born and unleashed, must be condemned in the strongest terms as anti-national, bordering on the creation of terror against the state and which can be deemed treasonous.  

Dear Editor, Recently Albouystown has been in  the  headlines and focus of all things representing Guyana.

Dear Editor,  An Afro and Indo Guyanese woman will lead the PNCR and its coalition into the next general elections.

For those without access to social media the statement issued by Brigadier Godfrey Bess on Friday must have been something of a puzzle, since no full context for it was given.

Dear Editor, Having listened to recent presentations made at public meetings by leading members of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), I cannot restrain the compulsion to state how appalled I am at the utterances, and to lend my voice in total condemnation of the calls for violence made by some of the speakers.

Dear Editor, On February 15, 2023 Stabroek News reported that President Ali seemed to conclude that the renegotiation of the Stabroek Oil contract would lead to a halt in production.

Dear Editor, The bodies of two men, found about a month apart, in canals in the Ogle/Industry area, have ‘been’described as ‘known alcoholics’. 

Dear Editor, This evening the Georgetown Cricket Club hosted a simple ceremony to honour legendary cricket commentator, Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira.

Dear Editor, As the centennial (1923-2023) birth anniversary of the late Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham is being commemorated, it is instructive to observe the reaction of his distractors.