Opinion

Dear Editor, I wish to call on the Minister of Home Affairs to act early and clear the environs of the Charity Police Station.

Dear Editor, Loyalty to a cause and loyalty to a party are not necessarily synonymous.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to the letter `Fact, truth detail and evidence should take centre stage when discussing gay rights’ by Roger Williams published in your paper on June 28, 2012. 

Dear Editor, To date, 32 countries have abolished all forms of corporal punishment (CP) of children in homes and in schools.

The four month-old Arab League-United Nations diplomatic effort to try to bring an end to the increasingly horrific carnage unfolding in Syria has come to bear a striking resemblance, in at least one important respect, to Cold War diplomacy.

Dear Editor, Ow Dave I think you too tough on the brothers (`Men are such jackasses’—Sunday July 1 `So it Go’).

Dear Editor, Ralph Ramkarran’s resignation is the nadir of the PPP’s catastrophic descent into disgrace.

Dear Editor, Given the known record of non-compliance in the governance structures it might be appropriate for concerned parties to enquire whether the following statutory requirements have been or are observed, by the Audit Office: Oath of Professional Conduct Section 7 of the Act requires that: “The Auditor General shall not enter upon the duties of his office unless he has taken and subscribed before the Speaker of the National Assembly the Oath in the form set out in the First Schedule to the Constitution.”

Dear Editor, It has to be a painful, wrenching moment for Mr.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to pen these few lines in response to Minister Rohee’s letter published in SN on June 29 captioned: ‘If ever there are tensions in our society it is because of the political opposition fuelled by sections of the media and rarely the government.‘

Dear Editor, I was writing another letter totally unrelated to this one when a Stabroek News editorial on the recent imprisonment of a father for beating his promiscuous teen caught my eye.

Dear Editor, After carefully checking the date on a particular coin which I have had for many years in my collection, I have just found out that it carries the year 1834 which makes it 178 years old.

Dear Editor, During the PNC era, there were many allegations of corruption which were steadily pursued by the then opposition, the PPP led by the late Dr Cheddi Jagan.

In the era of former President Jagdeo and a PPP/C parliamentary majority, the shake-up that has been visited upon state TV, the National Communications Network would have been unheard of.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Concerned Caribbean feminists are making public across the region our dismay at the dismissal of Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development, Verna St Rose Greaves, from the Trinidad and Tobago Government. 

Dear Editor, “Justice is not a cloistered virtue: She must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny of respectful, even though outspoken, comments of ordinary men.” 

Dear Editor, In his letter to the members of the University of Guyana Council, dated June 25, 2012, in which he retracted his acceptance of Council’s unanimous re-election to serve as Chancellor of the University of Guyana for another three years, Prof Compton Bourne himself confirms the several claims made by the unions about his shortcomings and his inability to function as an effective Chancellor.

Dear Editor,   First I would like to wish Mr La Rocque, the new Secretary General of Caricom, the very best in his new venture.