Opinion
Granger to attend NY Jubilee dinner in June
Dear Editor, Guyana’s Head of State, President David A Granger, will deliver the keynote address at a state dinner in his honour at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel & Towers, on Saturday, June 11, 2016.
The Broadcast Authority is working to ensure that justice and fair play will prevail in the granting of radio and TV licences
Dear Editor, I would like to make a few points clear for the public about where I, as a member of the Guyana National Broadcast Authority (GNBA) stand on the matter of the issuance of the 12 radio licences.
The coalition focused on personalities rather than issues in their Bartica election campaign
Dear Editor, The local government elections are over, and as one analyses the results and feedback from the electorate throughout Guyana, it is evident that our country is racially divided and the larger parties won because people voted solidly along ethnic lines or out of party loyalty, and not because the parties had better representatives or programmes.
Winning the majority of NDCs shows the popular appeal of the PPP/C across the country
Dear Editor, The recent local government elections, despite a relatively low voter turnout, have demonstrated in no uncertain terms that voting behaviour remains basically the same with the two main parties, namely the PPP/C and the APNU+AFC dominating the electoral space.
Four successive Vice Chancellors ruled on the matter
Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter published in Kaieteur News of March 18, captioned ‘UG and Vincent Alexander have been cruel to us’ by Sheik Mustapha.
Parents should be super vigilant and super savvy before giving children smartphones
Dear Editor, The points raised in Frank Fyffe’s letter captioned ‘How do we prevent the minds of our children from being polluted?’
US should release its grip on Guantanamo Bay
Dear Editor, Now that President Obama has taken the daring and statesmanlike stand of visiting the friendly communist island of Cuba with his lovely family he should do likewise as soon as he gets back at his Oval Office desk, by fearlessly and boldly withdrawing America’s illegal grip on Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay as it belongs to the Cuban people.
Government not doing enough to address mental illness survey finds
Dear Editor, Regarding recent commentaries on suicide, I conducted an opinion survey earlier this month that interviewed people from all walks of life.
Public statements from the GFF should be made through a PR department
Dear Editor, To the best of my knowledge the term sub-association was abandoned way back in 1999, if my memory serves me correctly, and was removed from the Constitution and Statutes of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF).
Politikles
Why not an investigation into the collapse of Globe Trust?
Dear Editor, The year 2016, will be remembered for the BoIs and CoIs: Dr Walter Rodney, mining accidents, allegations against CANU members, incarceration of a ten-year-old ‒ you name it, there is always the likelihood that one or another maybe commissioned for any event, including those which may have occurred decades ago.
Cuban-American relations
When, at the end of December of 1991, the Soviet Union, or USSR, ceased to exist, and its component parts established with the Russian Federation a Commonwealth of Independent States, there would have been much speculation that its Caribbean partner, Cuba, would have to proceed to consider its own status, given the tight integration that existed between the USSR and the Caribbean communist state.
Answers are needed as to how the Boerasirie Conservancy is managed to provide a fair distribution of water to all its users
Dear Editor, In an SN letter of March 20, Mr Ganga Persaud, a rice farmer from Hague on the West Coast of Demerara, claimed that GuySuCo has been hogging the available irrigation water from the Boerasirie Conservancy to the detriment of other users.
Unnecessary checks on motorists on the East Bank road
Dear Editor, I write in connection with what is senselessly being perpetrated on hapless motorists on the East Bank of Demerara by policemen.
More order needed around the Amerindian Hostel
Dear Editor, I am a regular visitor to the Amerindian Hostel in Princes Street Georgetown.
Guyana has no institution dedicated to the diaspora
Dear Editor, India receives the world’s highest amount of remittances from its diaspora.
Foreign journalists take liberties with WI cricketers
Dear Editor, I am pleased that I did not hear the voice of Mark Nicholas in either of the two games that WI won to put them in a very strong position in their division in the World Cup competition.
The newly installed councillors should put party politics aside and work for the betterment of their communities
Dear Editor, The government should be given credit for calling local government elections one year after assuming office.
Obama’s visit to Cuba is a vindication of the PPP
Dear Editor, United States President Barack Obama has created history by becoming the first sitting President of the United States to visit Cuba since the 1959 revolution which brought Fidel Castro to power.
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