Opinion

Dear Editor, With seven days left to the holding of the long awaited local government elections, which were denied to Guyanese by their leaders for the past nineteen years, Gecom is ready to go full throttle, five hundred observers are on standby, and political parties and independent groups are on the campaign trail.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to the letter in your paper of Friday, March 11 captioned ‘LBI-Better Hope NDC has not addressed a range of problems’.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Reparations Committee wishes to extend congratulations to the new government in accelerating the land titling programme for Indigenous Guyanese.

Dear Editor, A letter captioned ‘Bitter complaints of the nurse anaesthetists’ in Kaieteur News of March 10 really attracted my attention.

Dear Editor, One would think the PNC diehards would just give up rather than defy logic and common sense.

Dear Editor, These days with the passage of time, we tend to forget and ignore the gallant men and women who are part of the making of our Guyana.

Dear Editor,He stood immaculately tall, and soared to unparalleled heights with every stroke during his illustrious career.

Last week’s takeover of the Zaman newspaper – Turkey’s largest daily and a key forum for opposition views — shows how quickly independent media can be silenced by despotic governments.

Dear Editor, A recent article in the Daily Chronicle mentioned the transformation of a certain area of D’Urban Park, which it said was a jungle and a swamp prior to the construction of the Jubilee Stadium.

Dear Editor, “If you do not vote, other people who vote will choose your community representatives, and you will have no voice in the decision-making process.

Dear Editor, Good sense must prevail in handling the burial of those who perished by fire during the recent Camp Street prison events.

Dear Editor, In the late ʼ90s with the cooperation of the prison management, I conducted a self-sponsored Art course that resulted in two inmates proceeding to institutions of higher learning and another branching off to perfect his unique skills in model building; yet another is now an ardent producer of craft products.

Dear Editor, Please permit the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) to comment on a particularly reprehensible letter appearing in the Kaieteur News (‘Serious accusation against the animal clinic, GSPCA,’ March 1).

Dear Editor, I am in the process of relocating back to Guyana after living abroad for 45 years.

Dear Editor, Globalisation has crept into Indigenous peoples’ traditional communities with a philosophy of wealth and class division that has ruptured the barter system and collective approach of our people.

Dear Editor, Definitely I can’t say for other places but observing a few local government campaigns in Region 10, one gets the unmistakable impression that local government elections have become a platform of entertainment for some young contenders, who obviously are having a swell time and are delighting in cheap shots at opponents.

Against the backdrop of Venezuela’s worsening political and economic crisis, the country’s opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD is the Spanish acronym), declared on Wednesday that it would pursue all constitutional mechanisms, accompanied by mass peaceful street demonstrations starting in Caracas this weekend, to force President Nicolás Maduro and the chavista United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) out of power.

Dear Editor, Cognisant of an article captioned ‘Family of Coverden crash victim plead with police to speed-up probe,’ which was published in the Stabroek News om Wednesday, March 9, the Guyana Police Force wishes to clarify that investigations into the fatal accident that occurred on January 30, 2016, at Coverden, EBD, and which resulted in the death of Ann Mohamed have been completed and the police are in the process of seeking legal advice on the matter from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecution.