Opinion

Caricom governments and the United Kingdom government, represented by their foreign ministers, met last week in the latest of a series of such meetings held periodically since 1998.

Politikles

Dear Editor, I would like to make a special appeal to the Canadian High Commission in Guyana and, to an extent the Government of Canada, to establish a visa centre here, where interviews can be done.

Dear Editor, It has been reported that 25 graduates of the class of 2014 from the University of Guyana (UG) have eventually been cleared and granted automatic placement at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), University of the West Indies (UWI) at St Augustine Campus after financial and other modalities have been negotiated and cleared by Guyana’s Attorney General.

Dear Editor, These days when the pages of the Guyana papers, certainly the internet versions, are filled with stories of political discord, intrigues and violence of all sorts, it is wonderful to wake up on a Sunday morning and read the heartwarming story of Jeremiah Bentham and his mother Ihebaa (‘Mother’s support reason for NGSA success,’ Sunday Stabroek, June 22).

Dear Editor, Your editorial of Saturday, June 21, 2014, ‘The circus on our roads’ was as timely as it was pointed.

Dear Editor, The ruling regime’s ongoing indifference to the major problem of suicide continues to cost lives.

This is the period during which post-CXC students await the results of their examinations, wondering as the days go by just where their school days have gone and, perhaps, just what the next, possibly more challenging phase of their lives, will bring.

Politikles

Dear Editor, There is one bright spot in Guyana’s political and law-making system that must be fought for – our Parliament.

Dear Editor, Our great son of the Caribbean, Grenada-born economist and former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Sir Meredith Alister McIntyre said that, “The idea of integration is the most persuasive idea in developmental policy since the Second World War.”

Dear Editor, In a nation where professional first responders and referrals relating to suicide prevention are very few and far between and where cost becomes a deterrent, faith based associations can play a critical role, especially given that most Guyanese subscribe to one religion or another.

Dear Editor, It is my belief that only when there is a fatal accident on the West Bank Demerara public road will something be done about its seriously deteriorated state.

Dear Editor, We would like to add to Gokarran Sukhdeo’s letter ( ‘Green and the PPP are the problem not the solution,’ SN, June 14) in addressing the issue of Hamilton Green as raised by Dr Dolly Hassan in her letter in SN, June 11, titled, ‘The PNC should concede that certain mistakes were made during its tenure.’

Dear Editor, One wonders what it would take for the authorities responsible for impounding stray cattle to respond to, and prevent a large herd of cattle and horses from destroying taxpayers’ properties, bridges and fences in the Success and Chateau Margot communities.

Dear Editor, Demico ‘Qik Serv’ has been rooted in our history as a country for many, many years.

Dear Editor, The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) is grateful for the media coverage of the panel discussion on mental health issues held on Tuesday, June 17, as part of our 10th annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) film festival, ‘Painting the Spectrum 10.’

Dear Editor, The 2011 results had a very deep meaning. If one analyzes Guyana’s history, one would realize that 1964 was the last election when no party got more than 50 per cent of the votes (one would never know the reality between 1968 and 1985 as these elections did not reflect the will of the people).

Dear Editor, Does the PPP honestly have the capacity to accept and acknowledge that since 1997 they have failed the nation; have jeopardized the democratic process in Guyana by not holding local government elections; and have overseen the complete destruction of the local government system?

Just over four years ago in these columns, Stabroek News addressed the disturbing problems of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) in the aftermath of the acid attack on one of its executives Mr Pretipaul Jaigobin, an accountant who had raised questions about the accounts of the GCB and other matters, and following the decision of the Minister of Sport, Dr Frank Anthony to convene a meeting of the entire board.