Cricket sponsorship monies should be channelled to legally appointed entities
Dear Editor, The Demerara Cricket Board fiasco is presently engaging the attention of the court.
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.
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.
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