Opinion

Dear Editor,    The announcement that an APNU meeting was held and at that meeting, Vincent Henry of GAP was ‘elected’ as the new chairman of APNU must be seen for what it is; a coup being mounted against the democratically elected PNC leader, Aubrey Norton, by the Granger/Harmon faction and its surrogate candidate Roysdale Forde.

Dear Editor, Since few government officials respond to questions that are raised in the Press, we must thank Tejnarine Geer, Aquaculture consultant, for information on the brackish water shrimp project in Region 6 (https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/06/07/opinion/letters/brackish-water-shrimp-project-has-proven-to-be-tremendous-success/).

Dear Editor, Officials from the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) are to meet tomorrow. 

Dear Editor, While Minister of Education Priya Manickchand is no Winifred Gaskin or Cecilene Baird in intellect and performance, yours truly never expected an elementary piece of writing from the nation’s education policy head.

Dear Editor, The tongue lashing spat, which caused a stir, was uncalled for.

Dear Editor, The furore that has erupted over the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) usage of the term “Negro” reminds us that questions of identity are still unsettled in our country.

Dear Editor, The Cabinet of Thursday 6 June 2024 has taken the proverbial wind out of the sails of a potentially brewing contretemps, by taking immediate steps to issue a directive to the Police and Health Services (I always thought the Immigration Department was part of the GPF, if only for the simple reason that the Commissioner of Police, by Statute, is the Chief Immigration Officer).

Dear Editor, Following the discontinuation of the use of the terms Negro and East Indian by the government across the board, I am writing to express my philosophical view about the pervasive issue and use of racism in every facet of Guyanese life.

The UN recently released a report stating that millions of people living in coastal areas around the Caribbean and Latin America will have to contend with major risks to healthcare and infrastructure in the face of the more severe weather events brought by climate change.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Government for announcing the use of new terms to describe one’s ethnicity on police charges and on Government data.

Dear Editor, In June 2023, police officers from Alberttown Police Station (CID) took possession of various items from the apartment of my deceased boyfriend, Nakema Deonauth who lived alone.

Dear Editor, The recent repeated utterance by our Vice-President, asserting that the Opposition is unable to function irrespective of who were in the leadership positions, is to the minds of many of us fair-minded and democratic Guyanese just an effort to discredit this vital part of the Government, and to continue to perform what we believe unilaterally as a dictatorship.

Dear Editor, I recall Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC MP some time ago saying that “false narratives on matters of public importance must never be left on the public record unrepudiated”.

Dear Editor, All that glitters is gold… or at least it should be, right?

Dear Editor, I roamed the halls of Freedom House as a young boy. 

Dear Editor, It was good to see that GuySuCo was once again in the news.

(Reuters) – UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, appealed yesterday for international aid to help prepare violence-plagued Haiti for a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season that could be deadly for the island’s many displaced people.

Dear Editor, The truth is that in all of what we know to be, our civilization, we human beings have always yearned for peace and to make optimal use of the creator’s bounty, all the while having to deal with nature, but even more challenging the consistent missteps and arrogance of all mankind everywhere.