Opinion

In March of last year acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings-Edwards had lamented the shortage of judges in the light of the increasing case-load being placed on them.

Dear Editor, I was stunned to read the news article: “Immediate Expulsion for Children whose Parents Abuse Teachers” in the January 13th, 2023, issue of the Guyana Chronicle, especially as this proclamation managed to make it from the Chief Education Officer, past the Minster of Education, and the Editor of the state newspaper.

Dear Editor, I write now to further the debate on the funding of the Wales natural gas pipeline, in particular whether funding a Government of Guyana stake in it from cost oil is constitutional.

Dear Editor, For the last few months, IDPADA-G and things African Guyanese have been in the headlines.

Dear Editor Black people in Guyana for decades have been taken for granted by their political leaders.

Dear Editor, Now I am seeing in the news that Ms.

Dear Editor, Earlier testimony before the Commission of Inquiry into the March 2020 elections raised serious questions regarding the conduct of the Guyana Police.

It is not clear how genuinely concerned the administration is towards the plight of poor people and the daily stress they are under over the current cost of living crisis.

Dear Editor, In preparation for the upcoming budget, it is CRGs hope that the Government will keep in mind the lessons learned during the years leading up to 2023.

Dear Editor, The parapet in front of my home has been threatening to collapse into the city drains. 

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Elson Low’s letter captioned, “Since the government has stated an intention to own the pipeline it must approach parliament for funding”, Stabroek News, January 12th, 2023. 

Dear Editor, In what can only be described as stinging and frustrated statements from top judicial officers of the need for more judges in an overburdened and taxed system, yet again another promise… the cries will be addressed within three months, with the appointments of the requisite Commissions – the PSC and JSC. 

Democracy doesn’t seem to be doing at all well around the globe at the moment, and particularly not in this hemisphere.

Dear Editor, I hold to certain principles in this life and will never compromise them.

Dear Editor, The Macedonia Joppa Volunteer Committee (MJVC) on the Corentyne welcomes the New Year after two harsh years of the COVID 19 pandemic that took the lives of almost 1,300 Guyanese, 72,000 hospitalizations and more than 70,000 recoveries.

Dear Editor, The New Year has greeted us with murders, accidents and several maternal deaths.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter written by Joel Bhagwandin entitled: `Financing of the gas pipeline falls under the PSA, section 2.2 (d)’ in SN on January 10th.