Opinion

Dear Editor, Over the years, I have had to fight a relentless battle with the NIS to get my hard-earned old age benefits corrected.

Dear Editor, There currently exists a gap in our parliamentary structure.

Dear Editor, Permit me to share some thoughts on a most distasteful episode in Guyanese history.

Dear Editor, The Paris 2024 Olympics is here.  I flashed back 56 years, and it is Mexico City, and the Olympics of October 1968. 

Dear Editor, I am always delighted to share a positive story.

Dear Editor,  In light of the ruling party’s prevailing confidence, I wish to present a strategic rationale for why it may be advantageous for the ruling party of Guyana to consider holding elections in 2024 instead of waiting until 2025.

Dear Editor, Ramon Gaskin was one of the most delightful people I have ever met.

Dear Editor, The Bar Association’s message to Guyanese is a reminder of how out of touch and irrelevant this association has become: “The Bar Council of The Bar Association in the premises wishes to remind and urge members of the public to exercise responsibility in making public statements touching and concerning the administration of justice, including judicial officers and thereby refrain from personal attacks, the use of threatening language which threaten the personal safety of judicial officers or otherwise and or making scandalous, inflammatory and unsubstantiated allegations against judicial officers”, sure enough nobody should threaten anyone else’s safety (Judge or layman) and,  I believe the Judiciary knows how to respond to threats well enough but what’s the plan for Guyanese (or others) based in America for example?

On Wednesday, July 24th, the police conducted an early morning operation on Sandy Babb Street, Kitty during which they found 26 handguns and high-powered rifles and a large amount of ammunition.

Dear Editor Stabroek News editorial concerning the global performance towards reaching the targets of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (7/25/2024) correctly observed that “only 17 percent of [those] … targets are on track.”

Dear Editor, Last December, with President Maduro at full volume with his jingoistic rhetoric whipping up the Venezuelan masses and his military posturing causing alarm especially here on the Guyana side of the Guyana-Venezuela border, leaders in this Hemisphere, anxious about the potential for any kind of conflict to threaten the Caribbean’s cherished designation as a Zone of Peace, got into full diplomatic damage control.

Dear Editor, The Region Three Private Sector Inc. (R3PSInc) stands in strong support of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) as they undertake crucial investigations into allegations of corruption and financial impropriety.

Dear Editor, I was struck by the recent announcement that the Guyana government has made its third withdrawal of the year from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF), amounting to a hefty US$300 million.

Dear Editor, I sincerely hope that my erstwhile friend Tony Vieira would not be surprised at this (hopefully) published support for his letter of July 20 on the debacle that was Skeldon Factory.

Dear Editor,  The mother of the child that was burnt by her partner must be locked up.

Dear Editor, If we are to really have sustainable development and sustainable growth as a country, we must transform our political culture.

Dear Editor, After reading Hamilton Green’s letter in July 19, 2024 publication of Stabroek News, I felt compelled to transfer memories to words.

Dear Editor,   I appreciated reading Baytoram Ramharack’s historical account of Dattatreya Balkrushna Kalelkar, the Indian nationalist who visited British Guiana in 1958, and how his visit impacted the social geography of Prashad Nagar.

In a recent feature on education the Economist wrote that a mass of research showed “Developing brainiacs is the most reliable way to stoke economic growth.”