Opinion

Writing for the In the Diaspora column in Stabroek News on August 21, 2022, anthropologist Oneka LaBennett cited the condition of “self-devouring growth” that scholar Julie Livingston had applied to the manner of Botswana’s development.

Dear Editor, There first of all appears to be a preference for Midwives and Pharmacists in the health sector.

Dear Editor, A leader with considerable global standing, a man respected (and condemned) by many, shared a few thoughts and words during an engagement recently. 

Dear Editor, GECOM Commissioner, Mr. Vincent Alexander has tried without success to refute what I said in my missive published in the letter columns of S/N 22/1/ 23.

Last week Charlestown and Albouystown experienced heavy flooding as a consequence of what Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha described as “faulty work” on the part of a contractor who had installed a steel door in the Princes Street sluice.

Dear Editor, Please publish the following appeal for some action in the conservation of the materials that we use and waste every day.

Dear Editor, Now that we have had the national budget read and analyzed and found to have a focus on improving lives and creating opportunities for all Guyanese, the citizens of Georgetown now have to await, and we hope for not much longer, the presentation of the city’s budget to see what the municipality has in store for us.

Dear Editor, I read an article in the news during December 2022 regarding a statement from Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on salary increases being part of the comprehensive economic strategy.

Dear Editor, There is a saying that if you wish for peace you have to prepare for war.

Dear Editor, A new meaning of transformational was bandied about during the budget debates. 

Dear Editor, A recent report shows that Guyana is in the top ten of crime ridden countries in the world.

Dear Editor, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern, announced her resignation from politics after only five years.

Dear Editor, I empathize with the families of the two young women who died by drowning.

Jacinda Ardern’s announcement last Thursday that she was resigning as Prime Minister of New Zealand not only sent shockwaves around the world, but surely occasioned a thrill among misogynists and critics of her policies, many of whom have reviled her over the years with abuse that grew increasingly nasty, personal and threatening.

Dear Editor, The 2023 Budget has invited considerable comments and analyses of the numbers – billions of dollars in respect of a wide range of programmatic activities which the undersigned must admit are competently addressed by eminent experts.

Dear Editor, Except for being on Christopher Ram’s programme “Plain Talk,” Channel 9, two Wednesdays ago, and on Sharma’s Justice For All Programme, Channel 6,  last Saturday, I spent much of my time from the beginning of this year in deep introspection trying to understand why it is that Leaders everywhere continue making massive mis-steps simply because they disallow themselves the opportunity to learn from the experiences of their predecessors in office.

Dear Editor, It would be surprising, if not shocking, if the PPP and its cast of the unhearing, unseeing, and unfeeling (unthinking also) are enamoured by SN’s continuing series of the impact of the high cost-of-living.