Opinion

Dear Editor, In our preoccupation with putting food on the table, avoiding robberies and paying bills, many Guyanese may have missed the fact that the ruling regime is shifting from one weak excuse to another, in the effort to deny citizens one of the biggest opportunities ever offered to them.

Dear Editor, Guyana should be very proud of the accomplishments of its athletes at the just concluded Carifta Games in Martinique, with three gold medals and one silver.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank the Traffic police officers who maintained a high quality of professional order on Easter Monday at the Joe Vieira Park, WBD in a challenging situation involving the build-up of a large crowd, long lines of parked vehicles and the usual heavy traffic to and from the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

Followers of political changes in the region will have been observing the battle for succession in the People’s National Movement (PNM), the party formed by Dr Eric Williams, which has only had two political leaders since the mid-1950s – Williams himself and Patrick Manning who gave up the leadership on account of ill health.

Dear Editor,   Mr Denis Kopyl, Press Attaché at the Russian Embassy in Georgetown, in his latest letter, ‘Statements from Kiev and the West about Russia being behind the eastern Ukraine protests are groundless,’ (SN, April 20), is an obvious attempt to deflect sole blame from Russia for the Ukraine crisis, to which the US is now responding by sending troops to neighbouring states.

Dear Editor, On a previous occasion I felt obligated to pen a letter, to the Press, when one Peeping Tom sought through his privileged anonymity to mis-educate/misinform the reading public on the status of a Town Clerk in Guyana.

Dear Editor, What system do banks have in place to assist a customer whose card remains stuck/lost in the machine during a non-working day?

Dear Editor, The Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA), which is totally controlled by the PPP, is very silent about the poor prices given for rice farmers’ paddy ‒ a mere $3,000 per bag ‒ when farmers were expecting at least $4,000 to make ends meet.

Dear Editor, Recently, we have noticed that the Minister of Education appears to be getting more and more desperate as her record of real achievement in educating the children of Guyana crumbles around her.

Once the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration had announced that there would be an official enquiry into the killing of Dr Walter Rodney on June 13, 1980, it was almost certain that neither the announcement nor the enquiry itself would pass without a flurry of public comment.

Politikles

Dear Editor, I refer to the feature in the Sunday edition (April 20) of the Stabroek News, ‘A deteriorating heritage building.’

Dear Editor,   Easter is a time of reflection, rebirth and renewal.

Dear Editor, Yes, Freddie Kissoon, for me the saturation point has come.

Dear Editor, The harvesting of the present rice crop is coming to an end where farmers are making full use of the sunny weather.

Dear Editor, The death of Professor Girvan and former President ANR Robinson simultaneously continues a trend for some notable Caribbean politicians to go in pairs.

Dear Editor, As a Guyanese of indigenous descent, it pains me to see Guyana’s first peoples being used as political pawns by the PPP/C regime.

Dear Editor, The people of Guyana need help and protection from these wanton kidnappings and robberies that are reminiscent of post-2000.

Dear Editor, I believe there is a standard way to announce time.