Opinion

The NOC probe

While the Minister of Youth, Dr Frank Anthony has welcomed the probe of the alleged sexual and physical abuse of girls at the remedial facility, the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), it is clear that major problems exist at the Essequibo institution and that it will have to be radically transformed.

Misinterpreting the past

In The Magic Mountain, his fictional masterpiece, Thomas Mann asks, “Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present?”

US Embassy released LEAD documents in December 2013

Dear Editor, In a letter in the May 15, 2014 edition of Stabroek News, Melinda Janki wrote:  “Before any decision is made about the LEAD project, the Guyanese and American governments should make all the project documents publicly available so that the average Guyanese citizen can read about what the project is about. 

One for the Link Show

Dear Editor, I couldn’t help laughing when I read the front page of Wednesday’s issue of SN of a man who was found dead on the road and which was construed by the police as a road accident; but when the autopsy was done two bullet wounds were found in the head which the death certificate recorded as murder.

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