Opinion

Dear Editor, Despite the huge amount of the budget allocated to the Ministry of Education, female education will not improve because Guyana continues to be a male dominated society where women are not seen as equal partners with their male counterparts.

The late, splendidly named Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson – Ray to his family and close friends, ANR as he rose through the hurly-burly of Trinidad and Tobago politics, and then, curiously, His Excellency Arthur NR Robinson, when he occupied the highest office in the land – will probably be best remembered as a heroic champion of democracy when he was Prime Minster during what has been called his country’s “darkest hour.”

Dear Editor, There is a typical case here in the Rupununi of misplaced priorities by the PPP government.

Dear Editor, Your newspaper has been active in informing Guyanese readers about the situation in Ukraine.

Dear Editor, I see that a great storm of dust has been raised regarding Minister of Education Priya Manickchand’s unfortunate behaviour in Parliament and her arrogant refusal to apologise to MP Jaipaul Sharma.

Dear Editor, In a previous letter, ‘Racial constructs are man-made’ (SN, April 1), I wrote this: “Politicians do not come right out and tell us to hate our fellow Guyanese; they imply things, they use innuendo and manipulative rhetoric; they try to make us afraid of others.”

Dear Editor, I came across a quote a few days ago by Immanuel Kant that has since been playing in my head: “Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.”

Investment is to development, what water is to crops. Plants can’t grow without water; in fact, without water plants will shrivel and die.

Dear Editor, The Caribbean has lost another legal legend. Dr Joseph S Archibald, QC died suddenly last Friday at his home at Road Town Tortola.

Dear Editor, As a Member of Parliament, representing Region 10 on A Partnership for National Unity’s slate, there was cause to make reference to Dr Cheddi Jagan’s philosophy as Leader of the PPP during my Budget presentation, in an effort to jolt the memory of members on the government side in the National Assembly as how far they have strayed from their revered leader, and how much they have betrayed his legacy.

Dear Editor, It is noticeable that women today have flooded the legal profession which only a few years ago was mainly a profession dominated by men.

Dear Editor, Town Councils and NDCs are stagnated by lack of finance owing to poor rate collection.

Dear Editor, We are a small population in the Matarkai Sub Region called Four Miles in Port Kaituma, Region One.

Dear Editor, I must commend the Ministry of Home Affairs for the consideration given to citizens who have imported vehicles that have a manufacturer’s tint.

Dear Editor, A columnist wrote recently and fluently of the supposed WPA response to the PPP’s National Patriotic Front Proposals of 1977. 

Dear Editor, PPP/C General Secretary Clement Rohee, recently took umbrage at what he said was a tendency of members of the opposition to invoke the name of Dr Cheddi Jagan.

 Dear Editor, A letter in the print media recently requested answers of, and made statements on, the Guyana National Service which caught my attention:  “…how many National Service Guyanese who picked cotton all day in the sun have become gainfully employed in agriculture fulltime  is unknown.” 

Dear Editor, Those whom Cheddi Jagan lifted from obscurity to megalomania at Freedom House are concerned about Stabroek News tarnishing of the legacy of Bharrat Jagdeo.