Opinion

Dear Editor, One month has now passed since our friends and colleagues Jason John and Carlyle Sinclair were brutally murdered on the streets of Georgetown.

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Dear Editor, Philip Bynoe’s conduct at the recent press conference held at the Guyana Forestry Commission deserves public condemnation.

Fresh from presiding over the resignation of her Minister of Sport at the end of last month as a furore built up around a financial scandal in his ministry, this being the twentieth dismissal or resignation of a minister since the UNC-COP coalition came into office in May of 2010, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has succeeded in swiftly changing the political discussion agenda in Trinidad & Tobago.

Dear Editor, I refer to your article in today’s SN (Aug 18) – ‘Finance Minister under fire over timber stats’ and wish to offer a few comments.

Dear Editor, In reaction to the submissions of Senior Counsel B T I Pollard appearing in SN on August 14, I am constrained to indicate as follows: a) the utterances attributed to the Minister of Education in relation to former Ambassador Brent Hardt were not the subject of commendation by me, either expressly or by ineluctable inference; b) no citation was made by me of the United Nations Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States.

Dear Editor, I make reference to my letter dated July 7, 2014, published on July 8 with respect to the deplorable state of the roads in Area Q, Turkeyen (‘Is there a plan for Area Q Turkeyen Road?’).

Dear Editor, The article ‘Break the taboo against abortion now!’ in the SN of August 15, 2014 rightly calls for safe and affordable abortion services in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Any public debate between the Chairman of the Guyana Forestry Commission Mr James Singh and APNU MP Joe Harmon is most inappropriate.

Dear Editor, It took three hundred and fifty years from slavery to the status of the colonial subject to raise Europe to its robust maturity.

Dear Editor, We live in a culture of remittances. We live in a culture in which those who live outside of Guyana subscribe – both mentally and financially – to the notion that sending money to our family members in Guyana is the right thing to do.

Dear Editor, Noted is Freddie Kissoon’s resolution to lay aside the dialogue we have been having about the CIOG, Bisram etc.

Dear Editor, After all these years of so called independence Guyana has not broken out of the colonial syndrome of foreign reliance in almost every economic endeavor, and thus the picture presented to the outside world is that this is a country which endorses the ideology of being a primary products producer.

Politikles

It would be an error of epic proportions if the Government of Guyana were to allow the recent discovery of what a section of the media has described as a “rudimentary submarine” in the Waini region to pass without the fullest possible disclosure, including an enlightening public discourse on the implications of the discovery for our national security.

Dear Editor, To paraphrase Jose Marti, “In the world there must be a certain amount of decorum as there must be a certain amount of light…” Sadly today, in Linden, there is an extreme lack of decorum, and the light is dimming fast.

Dear Editor, The Attorney General, Mr Nandlall’s, threat to mount a court challenge against the Speaker’s decision to send the censure motion against the Minister of Finance to the Privileges Committee, comes as no surprise.

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me some space in your newspaper for this letter.

Dear Editor, Your article ‘When it rains, it pours for city businesses’ (SN, Aug.16th) with the accompanying photographs, graphically paint a picture of a failed state.

Dear Editor, How could I have been so blind, so inexcusably daft?