Opinion

Dear Editor, President Medina of the Dominican Republic wants to ram through an amendment so that he can run for a third term.

In its consequential orders yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) set out pithily that the Granger administration fell from office on December 21, 2018 and must now only function as a caretaker government for the purposes of holding general elections in three months from June 18 unless there is an enlargement of that period with the concurrence of the opposition.

Dear Editor, The intervention by President David Granger, purportedly acting under Article 188 (1)(b) of the Constitution of Guyana, granting to the Minister of Finance, “Respite until all appeals and remedies available to the Minister of Finance and the State have been exhausted”, while the Minister is still before the Judiciary in pending legal proceedings, strikes at the heart of constitutional governance, the doctrine of separation of powers and the rule of law. 

Dear Editor, Guyana’s political establishment is faced with a version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

Dear Editor, The ‘A Partnership for National Unity’ (APNU) and ‘Alliance for Change’ coalition is comprised of multiple political parties which are made up of people from various ethnicities and professions.

Dear Editor, I believe that one of the greatest tests for Guyana and Guyanese, over the past two decades perhaps, was the passing of the No Confidence Motion (NCM) in Parliament on the 21 December, 2018.

Dear Editor, On this fateful night two years ago, I stood outside of the Camp Street Prison at around 9 pm.

Two weeks ago the government announced that the Cabinet had decided to approve a proposal to remove custodial sentences for persons found with 30 grammes or less of marijuana.

Dear Editor, I have noted the recent news stories on the application for an oil block made by ABR Oil and Gas Exploration (“ABR O&G”). 

Dear Editor, Guyana is in a crisis caused by obtuse interpretations of its constitution; an obstinate administration is refusing to accept the consequences of losing a motion of no-confidence in the legislature.

Dear Editor, Permit me to commend the Ministry of Education for awarding L-Dee Johnson of Ann’s Grove and who attended Clonbrook Primary School for the best composition at the 2019 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) and for making public her piece at the announcement of the NGSA results.

Dear Editor, I am finding it increasingly frustrating and bewildering to be a relatively new mommy in Guyana and wish to start documenting some parenting challenges so we can try to resolve and help younger parents in the future enjoy parenthood in our beautiful country.

Dear Editor, Instead of addressing the evidence I presented that Hindu beliefs cannot be a motivation for corruption, Professor Kean Gibson not only digresses to something totally different, the problem of inequality ` All sacred texts have an underbelly of violence and greed’  (SN 6/28/2019), but in a show of some disdain, assumes the right to tell me, as an insider and practitioner, that my position on Hinduism is marginal while imposing her own characterization as central. 

Last month, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ Population Division revised its estimate of the world’s population growth.

Dear Editor, I read with great interest, and general agreement the suggestion by the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Director of Economics, Mr.

Dear Editor, The online press (Demerara Waves) (see `Guyana gov’t asks Caribbean Court to leave elections up to Parliament, GECOM, President, Opposition Leader’), has reported that Government will ask the Caribbean Court of Justice (the “Court”) to rule that the Court cannot or should not direct that general elections are to be held within three months because that “will clearly be obstructing Parliament from exercising its constitutional power to extend the time if it becomes necessary to do so.

Dear Editor, I read the latest development in the ongoing soap opera of selecting a chair for Gecom in the predawn hours of Tuesday.