Opinion

Dear Editor, The Royal Jewel House, famous for its clocks and watches, has a ridiculous system:  if a customer goes between 13 00 H and 14 00 H any work day to say have a watch battery checked or replaced or even a watch band changed, these tasks cannot.be

Dear Editor, Every day I read from afar the tales of human carnage on Guyana’s roads.

Dear Editor, I recently read about the President’s commitment to deliver 500 homes to single mothers within six months.

Dear Editor, Thanks to the learned Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, SC, there is this brouhaha under the cover of public policy. 

Dear Editor, At the recent Emancipation Symposium, Eric Phillips, head of the Guyana Reparations Committee, and Executive Member of the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) stated that Africans are in a state of “total crisis” and “benign neglect” partially because African political leaders in Guyana are “smoking pot” when they should be “educated about our history and about an eye for an eye,” instead of “turning the other cheek.”

Dear Editor, I write regarding the editorial captioned “Safeguards against elections skullduggery” (Stabroek News, August 12, 2024) on the AFC’s questions of GECOM on the bloated Voters List and the use of biometrics for voter identification.

Dear Editor, Ravi Dev is at it again. He and his Indo Caribbean Diaspora Network (ICDN) friends (see icdn.today)

Dear Editor, I’m writing to express my deep concern over the continuing disregard for the sport of cycling in Guyana by the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport, the National Sports Commission, and the Guyana Olympic Association.

Dear Editor, Following the spectacular opening ceremony of the XXXIII Olympic Games in Paris, France, home of the baguette and croissant, I turned my attention temporarily away from following the depressing and sensational news beamed to us through international TV news channels’ with reports on the Israeli-Gaza and Russia/Ukraine wars as well as the US election campaign.

Across political administrations in Guyana there have been persistent concerns about the physical conditions that obtain at our municipal markets which, to say the least, have from way back, been downright deplorable.

Dear Editor, I wish to attract to your attention that in the Sunday issue of Kaieteur News, a notice purportedly published at the instance of Mr.

Dear Editor, The recent proposed 6% to 9 % salary increase for teachers in 2024, followed by 8% increases in 2025 and 2026, has been met and rightfully so, with widespread disappointment among fellow Guyanese educators.

Dear Editor, The concept of diplomatic immunity was recently in the news (mainstream and social media) locally and in the diaspora.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me an opportunity to respond to a letter published in the Stabroek News dated August 11, 2024, captioned “President could achieve more for city by collaborating with council.”

Dear Editor, Lelon Saul, the City’s Finance Committee Chair, has penned a humorous propaganda piece in Stabroek News.

In a statement on August 7th, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) responded to a news item in the August 3rd edition of Stabroek News in which the Alliance For Change  (AFC) sought updates on an improved electoral system.

Dear Editor, There is merit to Robin Singh’s argument. Keep GuySuCo running at an annual subsidy of $US40 million.

Dear Editor, The Indigenous population of Guyana is currently around eighty thousand and growing from nine different nations in the country’s interior.