Opinion

Dear Editor, Firstly, let me say that I am not one of the fictitious writers that President Jagdeo complained were trying to destabilize his so-called efforts at development.

Dear Editor, In May I visited historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia.

Dear Editor, We in Charity have to be very careful about the cutting of the mangrove and courida trees so as to facilitate wharves.

Dear Editor, The emancipation of the African ancestors was not a whim of the colonial masters, when they suddenly had an awakening, or a renaissance, or a sudden inspiration of conscience about the worst human bondage in mankind’s history.

Dear Editor, Firstly I want to extended congratulations to Terron Alleyne of Regma Primary who topped at the National Grade 6 Assessment examinations and also his classmates Carol Hopkinson in third position and Teryka Mohabir in sixth, along  with all the other students who have performed well.

Dear Editor, The present ruling party and other political parties are getting ready to compete in the upcoming elections and in so doing speak of their interest in youth and of their plans if they are elected.

Dear Editor, Another Emancipation Day celebration is upon us in Guyana, and the significance of this momentous event in this particular year has impacted on numerous Guyanese, but notably those of African descent.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to use your letters column, to make an appeal.

Police in Norway have yet to determine whether Anders Behring Breivik acted alone when planning and carrying out the bombing and shooting spree that claimed at least 77 lives in Oslo last week.

Politikles

Dear Editor, When one looks at Guyana and looks also at Mauritius, one truly understands how the PNC and the PPP failed us. 

The President’s guards – eight of them we are told – took leave of absence from watching His Excellency’s back to run wid a lil hustle pon de side.

Dear Editor, I welcome the selection of Irwin LaRocque to be the new Secretary-General of Caricom.

Dear Editor, One would have thought that with the building, two years ago, and three subsequent renovations, of the much touted state-of-the-art hospital at Lethem, the many health-related issues would have been solved.

Dear Editor, The recent allegation of executive high-handedness in the withdrawal of the popular television show ‘Keeping them honest’ from CNS 6 clearly shows that freedom of expression which is a pivotal part of our democracy is now under assault by the government that should be protecting such.

Dear Editor, I respond to Mrs Doreen de Caires’s letter in SN of July 28 (‘Isabelle and Brendan de Caires once worked at SN’).

Dear Editor, With reference to the UG Registrar’s rebuttal of my warning that the law programme could lose its accreditation, reported in KN of July 26, I am amazed and seriously perturbed at Mr Alexander’s cavalier and dismissive treatment of such a tremendously traumatic issue to every present and future holder of the UG LLB degree.

Dear Editor, It was with a sense of irony that I read a letter in your newspaper by the Vice President of the Essequibo Cricket Board, Mr Fizul Bacchus in which he called on the Berbice Cricket Board to concentrate on the development of the game and not to waste time to challenge the elections of the Guyana Cricket Board (Articles on proceedings of Guyana Cricket Board AGM are misleading’ SN, July 21).

Dear Editor, Several leading legal luminaries and politicians have called for the replacement of the Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice. 

Dear Editor, Guyana’s effort to expand economic and political ties with the Middle East received a boost on Monday after the Saudi Cabinet approved the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries at Non-Resident Ambassador level, and authorized the Foreign Minister or his deputy to sign the related protocol, according to the Saudi Islamic News Agency.