Opinion

Dear Editor, On the news recently, I heard that another man was sent to prison for hitting his wife. 

Dear Editor, With reference to several letters in the press on the matter of the unscrupulous behaviour of minibus operators at peak hours, and as an operator myself, I am moved to offer the following: 1. 

Dear Editor, I write in response to an article appearing in the Guyana Times of Friday, March 28, 2014 under the caption ‘WPA has evidence Rodney was assassinated.’

Dear Editor, Considerable alarm has been expressed over the fact that of 220 candidates who were admitted to the School of Nursing, 120 of the cohort wrote an examination at which only 19 were successful.   

Dear Editor, Several journalists were chewing the cud while the President of Guyana was speaking at the most recent press conference at the Presidential Secretariat.

Dear Editor, Mr Clarence O Perry’s contribution in the SN of March 28 (‘Educational gains of previous administration have been eroded’) is most laudable for its intent, ie to initiate and make education better.

Dear Editor, I was very disappointed on Thursday, March 27 , when    at approximately 19.00hrs while I was listening to an interesting interview with President Donald Ramotar on NCN the duty announcer  suddenly cut the interview to put on a paid programme called ‘Sail On,’ and never said if the interview would continue later.

Dear Editor, Looking at the Essequibo Coast rice farmers picketing in front of parliament and speaking with the main opposition leaders, Mssrs David Granger and Khemraj Ramjattan, it is clear that the government and the Ministry of Agriculture have no interest in their welfare.

Dear Editor,   Should we not move past the question of debating the appropriateness of Afrikan reparations if it is known that:  (a) American Indians received reparations in the form of cash payments, land, and tribal recognition; (b) New Zealand’s Maoris got a multimillion dollar award and forest concessions which saw  seven tribes becoming the largest forest owners in New Zealand; (c) the allies received reparations from Germany by way of the Treaty of Versailles which formally asserted Germany’s war guilt; (d) Japan had to pay reparations after World War II which saw the United States removing capital goods from Japan and the USSR seizing Japanese  assets in from Manchukuo, while other Asian nations received reparations from the Japanese through the negotiation of individual treaties with those nations; (e) since 1951 Germany has paid more than 102 billion marks in federal reparations payments to Israel and in addition has paid out billions in private and other public funds including 75 million marks by German firms in compensation for wartime forced labour; (f) in 1983 the US Congress passed a remediation law for the Japanese Americans whom the US government had put into internment camps during World War II. 

Few issues highlight the political differences between modern nations more starkly than their attitudes towards the death penalty.

Dear Editor, In Mr Abu Bakr’s three letters on reparations, in the Staboek News, he has raised the traditional European objections normally associated with guilt and indifference, to attempt to argue against reparations.

Dear Editor, We read from the Trinidad newspapers that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Tuesday night announced that she had dismissed her Minister of the People and Social Development, Dr Glen Ramadharsingh, following his disorderly conduct on board a Caribbean Airlines domestic flight from Tobago to Trinidad earlier this month.

Dear Editor, A few days ago, we were struck with the very sad news of the passing of Ms Deborah Jan Backer. 

Dear Editor, On March 27, it was reported by the local press that the members of the Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team of the Guyana Police Force, have completed initial training.

Dear Editor, I wonder if any of $13.7B to be spent on roads and bridges, will include Middle Road and Independence Boulevard?

Dear Editor, It is appalling that we are callously treated to the butchery of our language by those who are supposed to be among the role models in its proper use.

Dear Editor, I noticed that the PPP propaganda machine despite gross misrepresentation failed to vilify me and the APNU opposition for allegedly saying that we want the sugar Industry to close down; in fact what I had proposed was a way to keep it alive.

Dear Editor, March 27, 2014, marks 53 years since the late LFS Burnham, a former Minister of Education, and Prime Minister of Guyana in a radio address to this nation said: “For us education is the cornerstone of equality and one of the chief instruments for … the removal of discrimination, the development of creative beings and the production of … men who will never surrender to mediocrity or dictatorship of any kind.

El Salvador has a new president-elect, former guerilla commander, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the party founded by Marxist revolutionaries from the 1980-1992 civil war.