Opinion

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.”

Dear Editor, I wish to thank Dr. Anand Goolsarran for his response to me in yesterday’s (July 26, 2024) edition of the Stabroek News (SN).

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to Mr. Joel Bhagwandin’s letter appearing in yesterday’s edition of your newspaper.

Dear Editor  It has to be wondered just what practices are at play three months after the deaths of the siblings, days apart, at NA Hospital?

Dear Editor, With reference to the letter issued in the Stabroek News of July 20, 2024 by the Public Relations and Marketing Department NIS, the following is the fiction: It was NIS who initiated the related forms to be completed.

Dear Editor, Thank you for reporting, “Sixteen transformers arrive for gas to energy project”.