Opinion

Dear Editor, As a physician I find it horrifying that there are calls for mutilating MPs by cutting them in half.

Dear Editor, Further to my  letter published in Stabroek News yesterday headed `Guyana constitution requires only a majority for the no confidence motion to pass’, I wish to draw attention to this extract from paragraph 51 of the Kilman v Speaker of Parliament of the Republic of Vanuatu judgment: “…the absolute majority is to be assessed against 51 members of Parliament of which a majority, simple or absolute, is 26.”

Venezuela, over the years, would have been monitoring closely both the exploratory work by ExxonMobil in its search for what, as it turns out, is Guyana’s huge reservoir of oil reserves, the various oil finds that have been realised since around May 2015 and now the unfolding plans for the start of the oil recovery exercises which are imminent and which can transform Guyana’s economic fortunes in the period ahead.

Dear Editor, Guyana is passing through a moment that calls for wisdom and statesmanship on critical policy issues.

Dear Editor, Today, I am ready to review 2018  and review 2019. 

Dear Editor, I am penning this letter to you out of utter frustration about the brutal advantage being taken of the commuters of Guyana who use the mini buses and speed boats.

Dear Editor, As was to be expected, following passage of the No Confidence Motion, certain court jesters have sprung up.

Dear Editor, I resisted the urge to immediately respond to the interpretation put forward by well-known attorney Nigel Hughes that 34 votes were needed for the no-confidence motion to be carried instead of 33 votes in the hope that he would review his position.

Dear Editor, I write on behalf of a “father figure of a fit and proper friend”, who I hold in high esteem.

Dear Editor, It seems that I am a simpleton. Last week, I suggested in the SN that the next step for Guyana was as easy as ABC a.

As the year comes to a tumultuous end, it is now up to President Granger to show leadership and to demonstrate that the country and constitutional governance will be put above all else – particularly the insular interests of APNU+AFC.

Dear Editor, Much has been said about the no-confidence motion that led to the “collapse” of the APNU+AFC coalition government and I wish not to reiterate that information here other than to share two views.

Dear Editor, Most social scientists are convinced that there is a strong link between politics and economics.

Dear Editor, Would you sell your most valuable resource for about 25% of the price of what it was worth?

Dear Editor, Now that the majority in the National Assembly spoke on December 21, 2018, we seek to offer an explanation on what constitutes a majority as prescribed by Article 106 of the Constitution and what is the meaning of “greater than” as we seek to expose the recent “arithmetic amorality”.

Dear Editor, The SN Dec 27th, 2018, article titled `Finches’ smuggler flies under cops’ radar’ caught my attention.

Dear Editor, One week after that controversial no-confidence motion and vote, Guyana has assumed the solemnity, humility, and sanctity of a countrywide confessional. 

Dear Editor, I note the reported response of GECOM’s Commissioner, Bibi Shadick, in the December 23rd edition of Stabroek News to questions posed to her by your reporter, Miranda La Rose, re GECOM’s capability to pull off General and Regional elections within the next ninety days.