Opinion

US immigration, legal and otherwise, has always been a barometer of the projected hopes of America’s poorer, less stable southern neighbours.

Dear Editor, With the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa coming together for the Sixth BRICS Summit, it is worth touching once again upon the significant role these countries and other emerging markets play in the global economy.

Dear Editor, This week’s ‘In the Diaspora’ column features a piece by Caribbean diplomat Reginald Dumas dealing with the de-nationalisation of Haitian descendants by the government of the Dominican Republic.

Dear Editor, By supporting the principles of human dignity, respect and equality for all, I have swiftly been accused of “selling my career short on the altar of gay rights.”

Dear Editor, We welcome the payment for rice farmers in Region Two which will bring much benefit to the farmers and their families, and advance the country’s welfare.

Dear Editor, Opposition Leader, David Granger’s claim that his office is severely underfunded, (SN, July 16), should not be taken lightly, given that this is a constitutional office, regardless of which party leader is chosen in national elections to occupy it, and should require court action by the Opposition Leader to get what this office deserves to function as effectively as it should.

Dear Editor, Our newspapers kindly published my recent letter which contained rhetorical questions about the depressing “negativity” in our society with particular reference to the development of children whose share of Guyana’s population is increasing while the development of their potential appears to be decreasing.

Dear Editor, Sultan Mohamed and others like Ravi Dev say federalism is the answer to Guyana’s ethno-political woes.

Dear Editor, In every country’s Parliament or Congress, there is one person who is elected by his/her peers to take on the role of the Speaker of the Chamber.

In positing, last Friday, that we, the Guyanese people, need to choose between recrimination and reconciliation, we had, in part, hoped that we would stimulate the type of public discussion that this newspaper has always championed.

Dear Editor, The ruling party has expressed a lack of confidence in Gecom.

Dear Editor, A citizen commented recently on the growing Guyanese disease called lateness.

Dear Editor, I happened upon a useful reminder recently – a clipping from SN of June 12, 2013: a letter to the editor, headlined ‘Labour minister should delay the state of implementation of minimum wage and 40-hour week to facilitate consultations.’

Dear Editor, I find it most troubling that your reputable newspaper could keep repeating the incorrect publishing of a person’s name.

Dear Editor, Since September 2013 the world market price for sugar was fluctuating between US19 cents a pound and US16.50 cents a pound.

Dear Editor, It has become necessary for me to write on an issue which is being used as a political ploy against me.

For at least the last two years of his 21-year-old life, Kevin Fields apparently considered himself a high roller (rich ghetto gangster – Urban Dictionary).

Dear Editor, Although a large number of people take issue with some of the points made by Messrs Tarron Khemraj and Gerhard Ramsaroop in their missive ‘Aspects of Burnham’s vision still relevant’ (SN, Jul 11), the writers must be applauded for stating a position and proceeding to defend it with data (examples of Burnham’s achievements), unlike some other writers who make unsubstantiated claims and descend into polemics and personal attacks.