Opinion

Dear Editor, As a political activist and member of the Indigenous Guyanese community, I have been constrained to follow with careful attention developments in the critical matter of the Guyana/Venezuela border controversy.

Dear Editor, Lest there be any misunderstanding at all, I wish to make it very clear that I am not, let me repeat, not, writing this letter on behalf of the government.

Dear Editor, The international media and political pundits have lauded Mr.

Dear Editor, As a nation, we cannot continue to trivialise the growing threats to Guyana’s sovereignty under the leadership of Venezue-lan President Nicolás Maduro.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Ms. Amanda Walton-Desir’s January 12, 2025, statement to this publication of which I fully endorse her plea to Guyana’s Speaker of the House, Mr Manzoor Nadir, to allow the word corruption to be reinstated in speech delivery, in Parliament.

Dear Editor, I have pleasure in congratulating Saraswati Vidya Niketan  of Cornelia Ida  for being conferred with India’s Pravasi Bharatiya Samman 2025 for community service.  Of Christian persuasion, I have comfortably enjoyed my attachment to the school as a teacher of mathematics from 2012-2019 with its high level values oriented curricula founded on Hinduism.

Dear Editor, Tough talk and stringent rules are insufficient to stop corruption, as this social menace is grounded into a subculture that had its genesis in colonialism, and which has persisted into the present.

On the 6 January, The Age, an Australian daily newspaper published in Melbourne, Victoria, reported that Jay Shah, the former secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), now the Chairman of the International Cricket Conference (ICC) is planning to meet later this month, with Cricket Australia (CA) Chairman Mike Baird, and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Chairman, Richard Thompson to explore the introduction of a two-tier format for the World Test Championship.

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to your attention an incident that occurred on Tuesday, January 14, at 2:18 PM.

Dear Editor, The last several months have been a thunderous roar of sand trucks, back hoes, sixteen wheel lorries, from six in the morning to late at nights with little reprieve.

Dear Editor, The widening of Homestretch Avenue is a great opportunity to make the vision of creating a central location for an arts and cultural experience become a reality.

Dear Editor, I read in your online newspaper about the ongoing drama with the Gas to Energy (GtE) project between the Government of Guyana (GoG) and the contractor, CH4-Lindsayca.

Dear Editor,  There are many unanswered nuanced questions surrounding the Petroleum Sharing Agreement, PSA2016, and Guy-ana’s budgetary matters omitted in the article SN 2025-01-13, regarding the long-term welfare of the nation.

Dear Editor, The SN editorial titled, “Renegotiate” (SN January 13-2025) incorporates so much, conveys even more. 

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.