Opinion

Dear Editor, Please allow me to comment on Sir Hilary Beckles’ characterization of the disbanding of the Cricket High Performance as an act of vandalism (SN Monday April 8).

Dear Editor, This writer, who holds single citizenship, but is old enough to have held a British passport before Guyana became independent, nevertheless continues to disagree very fundamentally with those who argue that the constitution is so constipated that it cannot be moved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century.

News earlier this week that a subterranean park is to be built in New York in the city’s old trolley tunnels created quite a buzz, but there seemed to be very little surprise that it has actually been conceptualised and is going to come to fruition.

Dear Editor, I wish to add my voice to those who do not support Ministers and Members of Parliament being dual citizens and the AFC’s call for an amendment of the provision of the Constitution dealing with dual citizenship.

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your newspaper to respond to the letter written by M.

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News edition of April 8th, 2019, there was a letter from one GKH Lall, which sought to instruct Mr.

Dear Editor, Despair is the correct descriptor to be used in the current national state of disequilibrium.

Dear Editor, I write to correct a misrepresentation contained in an article published in the Stabroek News on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 edition, captioned, `Dual citizen MPs still to resign’. 

Two Sundays ago the music and entertainment world was greeted with the horrific news that the 2019 Grammy nominee for Best Rap Album Nipsey Hussle had been gunned down in broad daylight in front of his clothing story in Los Angeles.

Dear Editor, On Sunday evening I disembarked a Route 32 bus at Stabroek Square from an Athletics Track Meet at the Leonora Stadium.

Dear Editor, In my long thirty years association with the game of cricket, I have witnessed many dedicated and hard-working cricketers but none of them came close to the commitment and sacrifice that I have seen from Erva Giddings.

Dear Editor, I love Linden, too. However, I do not love it for the opportunity to satisfy my own aggrandizement; I love it because the forceps did not crack my skull and the hands of a caring nurse placed me, wrapped in a blanket, into the bosom of my mother, in a ward and under the roof of the Mackenzie Hospital.

Dear Editor, When does this political nonsense stop? How could anyone believe that certain shabby, at least suspect, practices will not see the light of day? 

Dear Editor, At this time, we join in celebrating the 94th birth anniversary of a great Guyanese gentleman, an icon in his own right, Eusi Kwayana.

Dear Editor, I respectfully request that you grant me some space in your letter column to call on the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana (Ministry of Communities) to further modify the Condominium Regulations and Miscellaneous Act Chapter 36.22 Act .4 1989, amended by 20 of 1991, under the Laws of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, in order that the conflicts and animosity which presently exist between neighbours in the existing previously owned Government condominium housing schemes, which are now privately owned, would cease to exist.

Each time that City Hall appears to have plumbed the depths of ineptitude in the course of the discharge (or lack thereof) of its responsibilities to the capital many of us are probably inclined to think that the municipality finally has reached the base of its ineptness or perhaps that it may even be in the process of a long-awaited ascent towards enhanced competence, where, at least, the surprise and shock afforded by its underperformance are both less persistent and less severe and that things can only get better.