Opinion

Dear Editor, Since 1895, the USA has always been involved in matters concerning the Essequibo.

Split-screen town halls with candidates duelling for audiences is the perfect emblem of where the United States finds itself on the eve of this election.

Dear Editor, I would like to appeal to GuySuCo and the new government to reconsider their current approach in the handling of the squatting problem at Success.

Dear Editor, Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil in the world (300 Billion barrels).

Dear Editor, From the outset let it be made clear, I am not condoning or encouraging squatting but what I find abhorrent is the means by which the government is seeking to deal with the squatting of citizens in Success, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, As usual, Rusty woke me up at 5:00 am this morning and took me for a walk around the village of Success.

Dear Editor, One could not help noting the concern expressed by the General Secretary of GAWU about the derelict condition of ‘closed estates’.

Once in a while – although very infrequently nowadays – someone raises questions about Georgetown’s nomenclature, and by implication that of coastal Guyana as a whole. 

Dear Editor, In his riposte to Ravi Dev, Tacuma Ogunseye makes the highly refutable claim that since 1992 “African dominance in the coercive arms of the state” was “ineffectual” in guaranteeing African security (SN, October 14,2020).

Dear Editor, It is now 11:20 pm Monday, October 12th 2020 and the residents of the Kitty neighbourhood in the vicinity of Lamaha and Alexander streets, David and Gordon streets, have been subjected to loud music and loud talking from what sounds like a party, some form of merriment.

Dear Editor, The Demerara Assizes commenced on 6 October 2020 with an impressive list of 370 cases.

Dear Editor, One of the shortcomings with the appointments of non-traditional supporters of the PPP is their lack of authority to make decisions, allocate funds and recruit staff; in essence, these appointments incline towards being rubber stamps with perks, re: status, financial entitlements, duty-free concessions, VIP travel access and being invited to the glamour events hosted by the Government.

Dear Editor, With the COVID-19 pandemic severely affecting all facets of life worldwide, sports has not been spared, and here in Guyana, local sports have been hard hit with no sign of recovery in the near future.

Dear Editor, I write to address one “substantive difference” identified by Mr Vincent Alexander in his reply (SN 10-13)  to my earlier intervention where I proffered my views on the nature of our political impasse, which,  I stated arose out of our African and Indian-Guyanese Security Dilemmas.

On Monday last, the Ministry of Education was forced to issue an apology for what it deemed “inappropriate content” on the Guyana Learning Channel.

Dear Editor, Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to visit the Skeldon, Rose Hall and Enmore estates as efforts are being made to resuscitate operations there.