Opinion

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a letter published in the Stabroek News on Friday April 11, 2014, entitled, ‘The Ministry of Education should put more emphasis on girls’ education,’ in which the writers questioned the ministry’s ability to competently address – through policies and programmes – the empowerment  of females within the education system.

Dear Editor, Several articles have been written recently about our increasingly endangered wildlife and the need for enforcement.

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Vulgarity is part of life; in this country, some might say, too much part of it.

Correction In last week’s editorial it was incorrectly stated that the oil exploration vessel which was forced from our waters by the Venezuelans was called the Anadarko.

Dear Editor, Until this nation is prepared to have open and frank conversations on race in the quest for equality and national development, the self-serving and opportunistic in our midst will continue to manipulate our differences to the detriment of all.

Dear Editor, The Demerara Cricket Board fiasco is presently engaging the attention of the court.

Dear Editor, Is there a magic potion or miracle cure or, as we say in Guyana, an ‘obeah’ that can be used to cure our ailing sugar industry?

Dear Editor, I commend Mr Wayne Forde, President of Fruta Conquerors for publicly stating in your newspaper on April 3 that he is not in support of a no-confidence motion against the President of the GFF, Mr Matthias.

Dear Editor, Ever since Cheddi Jagan died in 1997 many in the PPP, and recently in the PNC, have oftentimes alluded to the Jagan legacy without defining what that legacy is.

Dear Editor, Once again there has been outrage, and rightly so by some concerned voices over the manner in which the 14-year-old boy Andy met his death.

The unfairness of US criminal justice has been well-publicized for decades, but a recent book by the Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi suggests that the system has decayed to a state in which wealthy citizens – with access to good lawyers – are, for all practical purposes, exempt from entry into “the biggest [prison population] in the history of human civilization.”

Dear Editor, On Wednesday evening, April 9, I was in the upper flat of the GCC, Bourda, to hear Reds Perreira share his memories of cricket in Guyana in the old days, particularly the 1950s.

Dear Editor, A resolution to amalgamate the Guyana Legion and the Ex-GDF Association was welcomed with great applause and excitement. 

Dear Editor, I read with great interest a letter written by my old New Amsterdam friend, Morty Codett which  appeared in Wednesday’s  issue of the Stabroek News (April 9) under the caption ‘Why no women Senior Counsel?’

Dear Editor, In the face of threats by the PPP to turn any denial of the government’s $6 billion subsidy for the sugar industry into a racist act against the predominantly East Indian sugar workers, the joint parliamentary opposition voted for the subsidy.

Dear Editor, I have been visiting the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground (ARCCG) on a regular basis, including playing cricket matches there.

 Dear Editor, The recent announcement by Presidential Advisor Gail Teixeira that the government is seriously thinking of establishing a local law school in light of the recent decision taken by the Council of Legal Education to no longer grant twenty-five LLB students from the University of Guyana places in the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad is a step in the right direction.

Dear Editor, Only in Guyana would its citizens be at the mercy of criminals, as in the case of Rajendra Singh.