Opinion

Dear Editor,   There are a plethora of reasons for banning the cane ranging from the moral to the psychological.

Dear Editor, Following the United States Supreme Court’s 1977 ruling in Ingraham v Wright, corporal punishment is still allowed in schools, and is still legal in 19 states in America.

News that Chinese logging company Baishanlin has requested two more years before fulfilling its mirage-like commitments to begin serious value-adding is not surprising.

Dear Editor, No one who has seen the graphic images of the refugee crisis in Europe can fail to be unaffected emotionally.

Dear Editor, The University of the West Indies (The UWI), as a sister regional institution, recognises and respects the long and mostly effective service of the West Indies Cricket Board since its establishment in 1927.

Dear Editor, The Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority Act, 2013 came into force on the 30th day of April, 2014 by Order of the then Minister of Legal Affairs Mr Anil Nandlall.

It happens to all parties eventually, especially those which have been in power for extended periods.

Dear Editor, You reported that the Chinese transnational logger Bai Shan Lin is being allowed to continue its rapacious unsustainable logging of furniture and flooring timbers for export as unprocessed logs to the company’s factories in China (‘Baishanlin will be allowed to continue exporting logs amid revamping – Trotman’, SN, November 12).

Dear Editor,   The November 6, issue of the Stabroek News carried a letter by Mr Anthony Vieira, which was critical of what I said about the sugar industry in an earlier interview with the same paper (‘Ramotar’s comments in SN’s interview were misleading’).

Dear Editor, In an earlier letter we briefly surveyed the pernicious problems that racial discrimination continues to pose for Guyana’s social, political and economic development.

Dear Editor,   Both the Stabroek News and the Guyana Chronicle came out recently firing on all cylinders.

Dear Editor, Recently, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) had announced production figures showing that the corporation had consistently surpassed its weekly targets and is heading for a record-breaking production year.

Dear Editor,   The ritualistic platitudes one has heard in relation to Road Safety month every year for the last decade or more, constitute clear evidence that not only are we not listening to ourselves, but worse, to others who have previously repeated everything, but the new numbers.

Dear Editor, While I must commend the relevant authorities for designating parking areas on some of our busiest Georgetown streets, I will also criticize these same officers for a lack of consistency and clarity in the methods used to identify parking/no parking areas.

Dear Editor, I predicted long ago after Dr Cheddi Jagan died, that the PPP would disintegrate.

Dear Editor, An Appeals Court ruling in the US will have a serious effect on illegal Guyanese living in that country.

Dear Editor,   Momentous, indeed historic developments have taken place within recent times.

Politikles

Six months after disputed elections returned President Nkurunziza to a constitutionally questionable third term, Burundi has entered a crisis eerily similar to the situation before the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.