Opinion

Dear Editor, I have written to the GECOM Chairperson, Ret’d. Justice of Appeal Claudette Singh, suggesting a just, legal and non-partisan standard of proof that must be provided by any party that is asserting discrepancies and anomalies in the General and Regional Elections (G&RE) and/or the National Recount (NR). 

Dear Editor, It is not too early to be earnestly thinking of Truth and Reconciliation amongst all our people, for the good of our people and country.

Dear Editor, David Granger, on 17th May, 2020, at a Press Conference across the road from the Convention Center, where the election Recount is coming to a conclusion, told the nation when asked “to what extent would your Coalition accept the result coming from the Recount” evaded the question.

Dear Editor, In a letter by me in the Stabroek News dated 3rd June, 2020 and captioned `Recount is not about simple numbers but a more complex and complete evaluation,’ I  presented factual evidence  to buttress the claim as captured in the headline of said letter in response to the effrontery  of the European Union  Ambassador Fernando Ponz Canto suggesting, inspite of the very glaring evidence of electoral fraud and corruption  discovered  in every region that, “ it was impossible to cheat”. 

Dear Editor, As the nation awaits the declaration of the final recount to determine the winner of the March 2, 2020 elections, the fundamental question is whether Guyanese will once again emerge the perennial losers until the next election cycle.

Dear Editor, A public response by US resident Ambassador to Guyana, her Excellency Sarah-Ann Lynch on the US Embassy’s Facebook page decrying the murder of Mr George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer was drawn to my attention. 

Dear Editor, A few words come to mind when discussing this elections fiasco foisted on us by the PNC.

Dear Editor, Thirty one years ago, on February 4th, 1999, Ahmadou Diallo was shot and killed by four NYPD officers.

Every time we think we may have taken a step forward in the interminable elections saga, we discover that is probably an illusion.

Dear Editor, On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that an outbreak of the viral disease COVID-19 which was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China had reached the level of a global pandemic.

Dear Editor, The world has been aghast at the recent sight of a white police officer squeezing the life out of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to remind the management and directors of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation about the crucial importance of sexual and reproductive healthcare.

Dear Editor, Refer to the Editor-in-Chief’s note to my letter `Recount is not about simple numbers but a more complex and complete evaluation’ (Stabroek News 3rd June, 2020).

Dear Editor, I refer to a few letters in your publication calling on the US ambassador to Guyana to provide some statement on the protests in the US on police brutality.

Dear Editor, I am a former top student at A levels who has studied physics on scholarship in the United States.

Dear Editor, If I may take you back to election 2015, we can possibly have a confirmed rather than a convoluted understanding as to why we are in a current state of morass.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to an article online on the selection of a 25-man West Indian squad to tour England for a three-test series.

The asphyxiation of George Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota, USA late last month, compounded by the almost laissez faire attitude of the authorities towards the crime immediately after, was the proverbial straw that set in motion the current widespread protests against injustice and racism in the United States and other parts of the world.