Opinion

Dear Editor, In your letter column on Sunday May 26, 2019 there appears a meme by way of a response authored by Mr.

Tomorrow is the global annual observance of World No Tobacco Day, created by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1987 to draw attention to the tobacco epidemic and its contribution to the spread of chronic non-communicable diseases and death.

Dear Editor, My attention is drawn to an article titled, `Breach of Procurement Act more frequent under APNU+AFC Govt’ published by online news outfit, Guyana Standard, on May 21, 2019.

Dear Editor, According to SN’s report of Friday May 24, 2019, Presidential action will be taken shortly to establish a ‘high-level committee on Public Service’.

Dear Editor, There is news via the Department of Public Information that Teacher Ms Benjamin has had to work on her own initiative to improve literacy in St Winefride’s Secondary School.

Dear Editor, It is good to know that the Organization of American States (OAS) has offered to render assistance to the electoral processes in the impending elections.

Dear Editor, With reference to the television programme which was done by final year students from the Language and Society II, Berbice Campus which was aired on the 23rd of April 2019 in Georgetown and on the 14th of May, 2019 on NCN, we are here to advocate for Guyanese Creole to be implemented in the school’s curriculum.

Dear Editor, On Friday, 17/05/2019 I was in a minibus travelling from Anna Regina to Charity when another passenger sitting next to me was enquiring from me the fare from Anna Regina to Charity.

Last week, the presidents of two sporting organisations, one national and one regional, visited the local shores.

Dear Editor, For ministers of Government not to admit that they have made a mistake, is completely incomprehensible; it would be much better for your political career to admit making an error, than to keep insisting that you did not, especially when everyone knows that you did. 

Dear Editor, Recent information in the print and electronic media revealed that Magistrate Rondel Weaver at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court sentenced police inspector Prem Narine  to seven days in prison.

Dear Editor, Zoos are wonderful facilities erected so that the public can have an opportunity to visit and learn about these exotic creatures which they would not regularly see. 

Dear Editor, The two messages came from far apart, and from two sources that could not be more alien to each other. 

Confirmation of Guyana’s considerable oil reserves and the attendant likelihood of significant change in the country’s economic fortunes in the relatively near future has altered external perceptions of a country that had once been  lumped by writers with the poverty-stricken countries of the hemisphere, deploying the demeaning sobriquet ‘banana republic’ in the process; never mind the complete misapplication of the term to a country that possesses none of the criteria that might otherwise  place it in that category.

Dear Editor, Regarding the recently disclosed State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) inquiry into the award of the Kaieteur and Canje Blocks, here are five brief questions all Guyanese should want answered publicly and promptly.

Dear Editor,   Justifiably there continues to be anxious debate concerning the quantum and quality of human capital needed for Guyana to effectively address the multiple challenges envisaged in the creation and maintenance of a viable monitoring and disciplinary mechanism, to be applied to what some describe as the oil and gas sector.

Dear Editor, I must say that it took me a while to appreciate the full extent of the PPP’s skills in many dubious fields.