Opinion

Dear Editor, Mr Maxwell’s letter of August 21 in SN returns to an old theme, Burnham-bashing, with which I for one have no quarrel, not being one of FB’s defenders (‘Burnham’s socialist path prevented Guyana from developing like Singapore’).

Dear Editor, So now there is a quest for a national alliance.

With a proposed date for a vote on secession from Great Britain of September 18 now almost within reach, the governing Scottish National Party (SNP) finds itself facing stiff competition from the forces opposed to the establishment of an independent Scotland.

Dear Editor, I write to make public the concerns raised with me by APNU supporters, who have asked why Mr Basil Williams and I were so adversarial and uncomradely during his cross examination of me in the ongoing Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (WRCI).

Dear Editor, I’ve learned with great sadness the passing of Mr Lionel Peters who was very active politically in the PPP, Hoyte’s PNCR and later the AFC.

Dear Editor, Minister Clement Rohee is a perfect example of the absolutism of power, the arrogance of ignorance, the flagrant lack of comprehension of what the people want and the intellectual wasteland that is the PPP leadership.

Dear Editor   Region 6 – East Berbice – is the cricketing headquarters not only for Guyana, but the entire Caribbean.

The government has allowed a discomfiting hiatus to develop between the announcement by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh in his budget speech last March that government was allocating one billion Guyana dollars to a coastal cleanup exercise and the actualization of the exercise.

Dear Editor, This is in reference to the report on a Guyanese former New York district leader being found guilty in relation to election financing (Aug 12).

Dear Editor, I write with reference to Dr Henry Jeffrey’s column, ‘Guyana: bi-communalism in transition’ (SN, Aug 20).

Dear Editor, Our recent letter, ‘Muslims are marginalized in Guyana,’ that appeared in Stabroek News, was not meant to create any ‘divide and rule’ analogy but was to evoke meaningful discussion as to why such an environment exists, and how we as individuals and the community as a whole can contribute to improve the status quo in the country, especially at the political level for all minorities and disenfranchised groups.

Dear Editor, The issue involving the Chinese company Bai Shan Lin, has created the environment for an objective debate to commence on the need for Guyana to develop a strategic approach for conducting business and development engagements with the West, East and the South.

Dear Editor, I read with amazement the call for the president to lead the fight against the local narcotics conglomerates.

Dear Editor, An opinion poll conducted by the North American Caribbean Teachers Association (NACTA) in July revealed lack of support for the AFC’s no-confidence motion and the PPP’s threat of a snap poll.

Politikles

What is clear from the eruptions over the activities of Bai Shan Lin, Vaitarna and similar logging and extractive companies, is that the PPP/C government has been engaged in drawing up agreements which either do not reflect the best interests of the nation or are not being properly enforced.

Dear Editor, Guyana has lost one of its most talented political foot soldiers to have fought against the petty bourgeoisie rulers of Guyana.  Lionel

Dear Editor, Taffin Khan being a member of the Guyana chess team slated to play in the Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway, applied to the Netherlands Embassy in Suriname for a Schengen visa.