Opinion

Dear Editor, In your Independence Jubilee Supple-ment you identified Ricardo Smith as the editor of the Graphic Independence Souvenir in 1966.

Dear Editor, In response to the question asked by David Yhann’s letter, in SN on our golden jubilee, on how to grow Guyana’s population, I have a more direct answer (‘What is the best model to increase Guyana’s population?’).

Dear Editor, A year has elapsed and, at best, the reviews are mixed. 

Dear Editor, It is very clear that the APNU+AFC regime is determined to close the sugar industry.

Dear Editor, The internet is an unbelievably spectacular thing, and only now, after so many years, are the people of the world understanding its amazing power.

Dear Editor, President Barack Obama will certainly go down in history as one of the greatest and most enlightened presidents of the United States.

After such dispiriting campaigns for the Democratic and Republican nominations, President Obama’s judicious speech at the Hiroshima memorial is a bracing reminder of what can be achieved when political rhetoric is used with intelligence and empathy.

Politikles

Dear Editor, I read the article on part of the playing life of Rohan Kanhai, one of most superlative batsmen who ever graced the playing fields of the world.

Dear Editor, How do we stop the talent drain? First, by reducing corruption in governance, top to bottom.

Dear Editor, So the Commissioner of Police and former Crime Chief has finally raised his head, scampering off to Kaieteur News for cover.

Dear Editor, It is not insignificant that three of the top cricket countries, Australia, South Africa and India, have decided to grace the shores of the Caribbean during the months of June, July and August, a period during which international cricket is usually not played in the region, to play fifty overs and Test cricket.

Dear Editor, It seems that my advocacy in the ‘Voice of the Liberal Democrats’ column in KN on May 11, on behalf of the 800 plus nurses across Guyana finally woke up a voice, supposedly inside the GPSU, from its decade long slumber (‘Without the GPSU conditions of service for nurses would have been worse’ SN, May 24).

Dear Editor, Several eye-opening notes surfaced from the week long Jubilee celebration. 

Dear Editor, Fifty years on and those who seek to divide the people through political means continue to win victories.

Dear Editor, Yesterday Guyana observed 50 years of independence. During that period, two parties dominated our politics – the PPP and the PNC.

No serious observer of the Venezuelan crisis could believe that President Nicolás Maduro’s recent, hastily planned trip to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago had anything to do with simply reaffirming his government’s commitment to the PetroCaribe arrangement and improving trade relations and cooperation in the areas of energy and security, as per the official communiqués.

Dear Editor, Guiana or Guyana ‒ a femme fatale, she seemed ‒ changed hands from the Dutch to the British, then to the French, and back to the Dutch, then British again, then Dutch once more, and then the British one final time during her 350-year colonial subordination.

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