Opinion

Dear Editor, What does it take for the ranks of the Lethem Police Station to take action on a report made about an alleged child molestation?

Dear Editor Please permit me to again make another clarion call for the injustice committed on members of the Guyana Police Force to be corrected.

Dear Editor, Finance Minister Winston Jordan is reported in the media to have said that a review will be commissioned by the IMF before any reduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) could be entertained.

Dear Editor, Elections in Guyana have never been about ideas. From the days of rigging to the more recent times of race-baiting, Guyana has been devoid of any election – won or lost – based on critical thinking.

Dear Editor, As we approach our 50th anniversary of Independence, the media need to take a serious look at themselves.

Politikles

With the end of the country’s five-year parliamentary term formally due towards the end of November 2016, St Lucia’s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony took the occasion of a recent Budget address and debate, still to be concluded, to announce the dissolution of the country’s Parliament and the holding of general elections on June 6, thus leaving the conclusion of Budget proceedings to be undertaken either by his St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) or the current Opposition United Workers Party (UWP).

Dear Editor, Leading up to our 50th Independence anniversary celebrations, some have taken upon themselves to reflect and share their opinions on the significance of that event in terms of Guyana’s political history.

Dear Editor, What is happening to Cheddi Jagan today has happened to many great men in history.

Dear Editor, There is an endless stream of ‘emergency’ situations in the health sector in Region 6 which makes possible the overriding of the tendering process.

Dear Editor, We, the nurses and members of Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), disassociate ourselves from the article by Mr Sase Singh in the Kaieteur News of May 11, 2016.

Dear Editor, In a few days’ time Guyana will be celebrating its Golden Jubilee ‒ fifty years as an independent nation.

Dear Editor, In a recent article ‘Double standards hurt West Indies chance to rebuild’ written by Colin Benjamin and published in ESPN Sports Media Ltd, the writer posed the following question: “Why is the WICB, one of the weakest boards in the world financially, trying to deny its best players from earning money from one of the few viable sources in the convoluted  global cricket climate, which it and its fellow global administrations haven`t managed to stabilize?”

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a large advertisement board which was recently erected in the city by a prominent local company.

Politikles

In the fullness of time one expects that the recently completed Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service of Guyana will become the subject of vigorous public discourse and that such discourse will take account of, among other things, which of its recommendations are accepted by the President and the manner and speed with which those accepted recommendations are implemented.

Dear Editor, I read Kit’s letter  `Correia’s company and determination built the Eugene F Correia airport’ (SN, May 21, 2016) and wanted to establish just for the public record, I do not have any conflict with Kit Nascimento, either at a personal or at a professional level.

Dear Editor, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova stated: “The enemies of human rights always attack cultural diversity which symbolizes the freedom to be and to think, and which is unbearable to them.

Dear Editor, I understand that road works have started on Carifesta Avenue, a road without any major defects at this time.

Dear Editor, Reading what is taking place in Venezuela under the Nicolás Maduro government aches my heart.