Opinion

Dear Editor, Reference is made here to remarks delivered on two separate occasions by the current Leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC), a third party that once hoped to strike a very important balance between the two major political parties.

Dear Editor, The January, 7, 2025, pronouncement by Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro to elect a Governor of the “Guayana Esequiba “ is both presumptuous and a clear violation of the December 14, 2023 Argyle Agreement  and the December 1, 2023 BINDING ORDER of the International Court of Justice (ICJ),The Hague, Netherlands on the ongoing border disputation between Guyana and Venezuela.

Dear Editor, I glanced at this Sunday’s Grade 6 Science Weekend Study.

The term ‘state capture’ alludes to a particular ‘brand’ of political corruption that allows ‘other interests’ to supersede the conventional governance mechanisms associated with shaping and implementing initiatives/undertakings that significantly impact the welfare of the country.

Dear Editor, The recent death of the Chinese rigger working on the Demerara Harbour Bridge is a tragic reminder of the systemic failure of the protection of workers in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I write in direct reply to Mr. Mohamed Shabeer Zafar’s letter, “A democratically credentialed Guya-nese leader in power cannot ignore the will and desire of the people on the 2016 PSA,” published in Stabroek News on January 11, 2025.

Dear Editor, I am genuinely afraid that I will soon be described as a frequent letter writer to the newspapers. 

Dear Editor, In recent times many of our leading intellectuals have been expressing their learned views on what to them democracy entails or should mean for Guyana.

If anything at all, the recent public exchanges over the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between the APNU+AFC Government and ExxonMobil have underlined why it must be renegotiated and why that should legitimately be an election year issue.

Dear Editor, Thirty years ago, on May 4, 1995, the National Assembly passed the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill (MTOP).

Dear Editor, It was not by accident that three days before his scheduled Jan 10th inauguration, Maduro announced he was scheduling the election of the governor of Essequibo. 

Dear Editor, People ask me why did I fly to the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta to hold up my sign, “Guyana thanks President Carter for restoring democracy, ending PNC dictatorship.”

Dear Editor, A recent study by Forbes India that was released on January 10th this year has placed Guyana 9th in GDP per capita.

Dear Editor, The $100,000 cash grant should put to rest many disputes. 

Dear Editor, Well, it’s official: Guyana has signed the deal for the US$527 million loan from the U.S.

Guyana is due to hold national and regional elections this year including in Regions One, Two, Three, Seven and Eight.

Dear Editor, Anyone who, causally observes the style of governance of this incumbent PPP/C regime would recognise that Guyanese are very low on its priority list; the welfare and well- being of the people of this country come last in the PPP/C’s grand scheme of things.