Opinion

Dear Editor, As I traverse the congested streets of Georgetown and the lethal roadways of Guyana one pleasure I have is to observe the wonderful names inscribed so resourcefully on our minibuses.

Dear Editor, Most of us are enraged when we hear of the rape and abuse of children.

Dear Editor, Two weeks ago, driving west on Hadfield Street (in front of Smith Memorial Primary School), I saw some schoolchildren playing with a dog.

There is something quite bizarre about Guyana’s foreign policy – if such it can be called.

 Dear Editor, I was invited to a workshop on Democracy on Friday, April 4, and was asked to mobilise a few interested residents who were willing to participate.

Dear Editor, In the explanation of her refusal to apologise to MP Jaipaul Sharma, which we saw on Wednesday, the Minister of Education, Ms Priya Manickchand said that if she apologized she would be betraying the victims of rape and paedophilia: “I cannot abandon them just to keep the National Assembly happy,” she explained.

Dear Editor, I have been legally married to a man (name given) for 22 years.

Dear Editor, Where is Guyana’s progress headed if our destiny is pursued privately on the basis of race which then makes it the take it or leave it national agenda for everyone else? 

Dear Editor, What has this society become? I just read on INews about an employee of a government agency hitting a nurse with his car and driving away without rendering assistance.

Dear Editor, I think it’s truly wonderful that another Canadian company is coming to mine gold.

Dear Editor, Having had the opportunity to meet Ms Priya Manickchand in the course of my attachment to NCERD, I concluded that she has a strong sense of justice and is totally dedicated to the protection of the children of the nation making efforts towards achieving the best for them in the education sector.

Dear Editor, The following is an email comment, by a blogger, ‘Averiguador,’ on a story published in the Trinidad Express on March 18, 2014 under the heading of ‘Mule race coming’ in which the writer, Mr Ralph Maraj, a former cabinet minister in the Trinidad and Tobago government, was commenting on the failure of both the current and previous T&T governments to pass procurement legislation and, in view of forthcoming general elections, which Mr Maraj refers to in the title, the unlikely prospect of that happening any time soon.

Dear Editor, The ruling regime uses every opportunity to lay claim to democratic credentials.

The American comedian Stephen Colbert set off a flood of outraged moralizing in the twitterverse last week after his show tweeted an out-of-context punchline about racial insensitivity.

Politikles

Dear Editor, City Hall is a national treasure, one of our most elegant and beautiful buildings, admired by all who visit.

Dear Editor, Kwakwani will be given paved roads for the first time as was promised by Mr Sharma Solomon, Regional Chairman of Region Ten during the election campaign of 2011 and his regular visits to the community.

Dear Editor, I have been asked to write this letter in the hope that NIS would be moved to act accordingly.

Dear Editor, Recent comments made by Minister of Education Priya Manickchand underscore a grave lack of understanding on the part of the Minister for the office she holds.