Opinion

On the afternoon of May 25th, in what was a departure from the custom, the Golden Arrowhead was hoisted at D’Urban Park in an event specially scheduled to accommodate hundreds of children. 

Dear Editor, On an almost weekly basis, the independence of the Judiciary is being tested. 

Dear Editor, The first ten years of our post-independence period was one of great hope and great ambition for all those patriots and visionaries who thought that Guyana, having been released from the shackles of colonialism, might create a society in which the rising generations could achieve a good life within a cooperative society.

Dear Editor, Why is it, may I ask, that the GTT customer care representatives annoy us with the meaningless introduction, “Thank you for choosing GTT?”

Dear Editor, One wonders whether even the relevant decision-makers are aware that the current Local Government Commissioners are the first appointees since the Municipal & District Councils Act of 1969 was passed, and provided for such appointments.

A month ago, at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the comedian  Michelle Wolf made risqué jokes about Donald Trump.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Basketball Federation is at a sweating point not a breaking point.

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing the letter from Ms Bernice Walcott (SN 30 May, 2018 – Say no to Gay Pride Parade) who is opposed to equality for LGBT citizens and to the Gay Pride March.

Dear Editor, My husband died on July 14, 1990. Our union resulted in a daughter who was eleven years of age at the time of his death.

Dear Editor, We recently celebrated our independence anniversary. At the flag raising ceremony at D’Urban Park this regime once more showed the direction it is taking our country. 

Dear Editor,  What Guyana desperately needs is a time for healing and the APNU+AFC government in its third year of government is in a position to facilitate this.

When inmates of the New Amsterdam penitentiary posted images on Facebook showing themselves imbibing hard liquor, energy drinks, and smoking what appeared to be marijuana cigarettes, much as if they were having a celebratory drink at a neighbourhood bar on the corner, the obvious culpability of prison officers in the regular breaches occurring in the prison system were dramatically exposed to the glare of public scrutiny.

Dear Editor, From all appearances, misbehaviours and misrepresentations, the sugar industry would seem to be going in a direction that is other than ‘sweet’ – back into a place once described so eloquently by Clem Seecharran as ‘bitter sugar’.

Dear Editor, In 2007 after decades of begging this government to help them develop their landlocked states of Amazonas and Roraima, a delegation of Brazilians came to Guyana to discuss the deep water harbour, the highway from Brazil and hydropower.

Dear Editor, The GAWU has seen Dr David Hinds’ response to our letter which appeared in the Stabroek News under the title `Why can’t GAWU acknowledge that this gov’t took the brave decision to confront the sugar problem?’;

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter published in your newspaper on May 30, 2018 titled, `Say no to the gay pride parade,’ by Bernice Walcott.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express my thoughts and feelings about being a citizen of Guyana at this point.