Opinion

Dear Editor, Many are gleeful while others are grossly disappointed with President Donald Trump’s letter to President Granger on the eve of Guyana’s Republic celebrations.

Dear Editor, Eighty-eight years ago, on 25 February 1931, Mahatma Gandhi received a simple one-year imprisonment. 

Dear Editor, We read in the Stabroek News on February 16, 2018, that there was a massive Rupununi outreach by politicians from the PNC+AFC Group. 

Dear Editor, News that the criteria, methodology, and timelines for a mining lottery were finalised, was released last week and raises questions about the late action of the Ministry, headed by Minister Raphael Trotman, to help the mining sector.

Dear Editor, Maruranau, Nappi, Aishalton, Karadarnauwa, Katoonarib, Potannau, Rukumutu, Irfaan Ali has been travelling throughout Guyana, these are but a few of the names of villages visited in the Rupununi recently.

It is now clear to all and sundry that a firm alliance has been established between the APNU+AFC government and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to thwart the constitutional stipulation that general elections be held within three months of the December 21, 2018 motion of no confidence or if necessary in an enlarged timeframe agreed by two-thirds of the National Assembly.

Dear Editor, Please help me share my experience at an International Mother Language Day (IMLD) presentation at the Umana Yana last Thursday; an experience I shall never forget.

Dear Editor, The calls keep coming for leadership conversation from well-meaning corners, and they have to be heeded.

Dear Editor, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) is profoundly disappointed that the Government of Guyana has allowed the dispute between the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) to remain unsolved for so many years.

Dear Editor, Shimron Hetmyer’s century in the 2nd One Day International against England was his fourth in just 22 ODIs.

Dear Editor, I was delighted to see my friends High Commissioner Case and Ambassador Insanally high up there among the national awardees this weekend.

Guyana’s politicians have failed us. Operating behind the barrier of our two major political cartels, they are answerable to their parties first and foremost, and not to the voters or even, in a more profound sense, to the best interests of the country.

Dear Editor, As part of its efforts to ensure the fair distribution of mining lands to waiting applicants, the Minister of Natural Resources has tasked the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Closed Area Committee (CAC) to move forward with the distribution of mining lands by means of a series of mining lotteries set to commence on Friday, March 22, 2019.

Dear Editor, A delegation from the Guyana Police Force ‘C’ Division on  Thursday held a meeting with residents of Two Friends, Ann’s Grove, Clonbrook and Dochfour Villages on the East Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, Can a minister from the Government come out and visit the Mahaicony Branch Road to see the deplorable condition the road is in?

Dear Editor, The opposition presidential candidate is nowhere around at this crucial moment, in this surging frantic race to an election date and day. 

Dear Editor, As I join my fellow Guyanese citizens in marking Republic Day 2019, I cannot avoid pangs of regret that our President and Prime Minister did not persevere in their initial response to the No-Confidence Motion (NCM), to abide by it, honouring our constitution.

Dear Editor, Given the political environment in Guyana coupled with the dissemination of false information on social media, it is imperative that the daily newspapers be a source of independent and objective news.