Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am perturbed by an article published online via websites and social media platforms as well as in (yesterday’s) edition of the Kaieteur News under the caption, “Justice Singh doesn’t think it’s GECOM’s role to probe claims of anomalies – Commissioner Sase Gunraj.”

Dear Editor, The contents of a Department of Public Information press release titled, NGSA to be  written by July and which was released on May 20, 2020, has left me very alarmed.

Dear Editor, Can the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) make all the smart and necessary logistical decisions to try to ensure that the national recount exercise, currently ongoing at a snail’s pace, does not exceed the 25 days by a ludicrous number of days?

Dear Editor, I wanted to respond, belatedly,  to Ms. Thompson’s experiences whilst “shopping black”.

Dear Editor, It is hoped that  President Granger is not deliberately setting  the nation up to go through another tiresome academic and legal drawn out interpretation of what he said last Sunday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter in S/N 20.5.’20

Dear Editor, I am neither surprised nor astonished that David Hinds would unabashedly construct the narrative that he posited in your letter column (Stabroek News, 2020.05.20, Letters…) and across various other print and electronic media.

Dear Editor, The representative refused to sign off the Certificate for Region Two because it registers valid votes, in view of anomalies raised, even though, it is alleged, SORs for the same region  were signed by the same dissenting party. 

Dear Editor, “Every dark cloud has a silver lining.” It is more important now to be as strong and optimistic as possible with the challenges presented by Covid-19 and the contentious national elections’ results.

Dear Editor,  Over the decades there has been a tendency in Guyana to push up wages even when productivity is falling.

Dear Editor, I’m writing on behalf of 18 family members who have been stranded in Aruba waiting for an opportunity to return home.

Dear Editor, President David Granger over the past few days has shifted from his position of general silence and has now engaged the media and appeared on a radio programme.

Dear Editor, In a letter published in both SN and KN on May 20, 2020, authored by David Hinds, he accused the western powers to “have openly chosen a side in the current standoff- they have taken the PPP’s side”.

Dear Editor, I was incredulous after listening to the Benschop interview of Mr.

Dear Editor, Since Mingo’s fiasco at Ashmins building, there have been loud and persistent cries of electoral fraud.

Dear Editor, The Coalition is shadow boxing in semantics. While its Leader said or inferred the elections were free and fair and “orderly,” this does not mean the elections (the fraudulent acts in District Four aside) lacked credibility.

Dear Editor, The  articles on the Guyana elections that have been published recently in the Jamaican press  are not very helpful. 

Dear Editor After 50 years, can the PPP and the PNC be relied on to solve the constitutional and electoral problems they have created and sustained?

Dear Editor, Donkeys kill more people each year than Great White Sharks; yet humans harbour little fear of the neighbourhood jackass while we enter every ocean with trepidation and for older persons, the theme song to Jaws humming in our heads, a symphony playing ‘ode to irrational fear’. 

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.