Opinion

Dear Editor, I have differed from much of the commentary and analysis of the current political impasse in Guyana which have tended to confine the issue to a problem electoral democracy.

Dear Editor, As if the global pandemic Covid-19 is not enough to do battle with, Guyanese have to fight tooth and nail to get the Guyana Elections Commission to declare the results of an elections held 77 days ago which in itself is a major failure of the Chairperson and her commissioners.

During the course of last week, Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Ricky Skerritt must have felt that the annual hurricane winds and accompanying rains had arrived two weeks ahead of schedule.

Dear Editor, I am told by informed sources that APNU employed the Crosby Textor political consultancy until they ran out of money to pay them.

Dear Editor, In an article published in the May 17 Sunday Stabroek titled `COVID-19 patients fear poor conditions at Diamond Isolation Unit delaying recovery’ several half-truths and fallacies were repeated without evidence to support it.

Dear Editor, On Sunday, May 17, 2020, I was discharged after been tested positive for Covid-19 on March 29.

Dear Editor, In the last Sunday Stabroek in an article headlined: `Exxon to begin reinjecting gas into well’, the head of the local Environmental Protection Agency; Mr.

Dear Editor, The letters pages continue to be filled with comments from letter writers who are outraged by the brazen attempts at fraud being carried out by the PNC and its co-conspirators in APNU, AFC and GECOM.

Dear Editor, With full knowledge that Clairmont Mingo’s Region 4 declaration was based on unverified numbers and lacking credibility, the Chief Election Officer nevertheless used it to complete the tabulation of results for all 10 regions and attempted to have it declared as the final result.

Dear Editor, Help! The befuddled single parent came to ask advice on how her Nursery School daughter can learn ‘on-line’.

With no warning whatsoever, we find ourselves confronted with what has been described as “one of the greatest threats in our lifetime to global education, a gigantic educational crisis.”

Dear Editor, Apart from making Guyana win top spot in the Guinness Book of Records for the longest count of election votes on both an absolute and per capita basis, GECOM’s conduct of the recount has not been short of clownishness.

Dear Editor, A recent comment by US Congressman Hakeem Jeffries was covered by several news outlets  in the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, Now that the fraud in Clairmont Mingo’s declaration for District 4 is being revealed before the eyes of the world, I could not help but note that at Saturday’s press conference outside of the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, APNU+AFC candidates Amna Ally and Roysdale Forde stated that there “was systemic fraud that has been taking place in these elections” and cast the blame on GECOM.

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to a few points in the Editor’s Note in relation to my letter that was published in the Stabroek News on May 15, 2020 and titled ‘OAS ought to be more sensitive with how it is treating with Guyana’s elections’.

It seems that the agents of APNU+AFC at the national recount of votes – a number of de facto ministers among them – have taken the opportunity of entering the manufacturing sector and not in a good way.

Dear Editor, I thought that the incendiary Chris Gayle-Ramnaresh Sarwan dispute was over.

Dear Editor, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle in the COVID-19 Daily Update of May 14 described the conditions at the quarantine and isolation facilities.