Opinion

Dear Editor, Sir Fenton Ramsahoye QC was perhaps the most prolific lawyer the region has ever produced.

Dear Editor, In 1986, Professor Ken Danns asked my sociology class for a show of hands of all without a relative in North America, the class had over 100 students and not one hand went into the air.

Dear Editor, I have a dream. A dream that someday in the not too distant future that the people of Guyana will be voting for the People’s Progressive National Congress (PPNC) and that election campaign meetings will feature on the same platform names like Greenidge, Anthony, Teixeira and Harmon.

Dear Editor, “Are we nearing the light -a day of freedom and peace….? 

Last week everyone’s attention was riveted on the consequences of the no-confidence vote and the scheduling of Parliament at a time when the government was expected to have resigned.

Dear Editor, The minority arm of the coalition seems to be losing its relevance with the reduction of its seats allocation in the hallowed Chamber from 12 to 11.

Dear Editor, The Government in Action column titled “GuySuCo and Sugar creating a viable future” which appeared in the December 30, 2018 Guyana Chronicle spent an inordinate amount of time in seeking to convince readers that the Administration’s actions regarding the sugar industry were correct.

Dear Editor, I checked in at the Ogle Airport for my LIAT flight number 398 from Guyana to Trinidad on 3rd January 2019.

Dear Editor, The decision by the Speaker of the National Assembly not to revisit the No-Confidence Motion was widely anticipated and accords fully with the thinking of legal minds, both in Guyana and abroad.

Dear Editor, The no-confidence motion called by the opposition leader Mr Bharrat Jagdeo and supported by former AFC parliamentarian Mr Charrandas Persaud has brought to an end, the APNU+AFC coalition government, described as the most expensive government in Guyanese history.

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter as a representative of all the ordinary Guyanese who hustle and slog away every day in these hard times to barely meet the needs of their families: those who sweat and labour each and every day on farms and in fields; in factories; in logging and mineral industries; in sawmills;  in quarries; at markets; in the civil service, as nurses and teachers; in the sugar industry, the employed and unemployed; in the minibuses and taxis; in construction; in the service industries; as grandparent baby sitters, and in all other fields of work and careers that I am unable to mention. 

Dear Editor, I hesitate to write this letter, as it concerns a very great and highly revered figure; an avatar, a spiritual savant. 

Dear Editor, Since they are so adamant that the No Confidence Motion  needed two votes to pass, can the brilliant and eloquent Prime Minister, National Security Minister and Attorney General kindly tell the world their two numbers, A and B, the sum of which equals 65, but when subtracted from each other equals 2? 

Fifty years ago, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended Harvard, the dean of the law school would meet with female students once a year.

Dear Editor, Many Guyanese at home and abroad are paying keen attention to the ongoing campaign-type activities initiated by those who, thus far, have expressed an interest in being the presidential candidate of the PPP/C for the next general and regional elections.

Dear Editor, The intense debate on what the word “majority” means in Article 106(6) presents another golden opportunity for our courts, should the matter reach them,  to enlighten us on how they approach the interpretation of the law.

Dear Editor, Someone brought to my attention that one Ronald Bostwick in a letter in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News entitled `Opportunity we now have to make purposive changes to the way we govern our country ought not to be missed’, referred to a letter written by one Sase. 

Dear Editor The debate to decide Charandas Persaud as hero or villain will depend upon events that are yet to unfold in the immediate future.