Opinion

Dear Editor, The Sisters of The S4 Foundation (Stella’s Sisterhood of Support & Service Foundation) resolutely stand in solidarity with Simona Broomes, President of the Guyana Women’s Miners Organisation (GWMO), and the members of the GWMO as they face off with extreme measures to counter the good work they are doing for women and girls who are being trafficked in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Today [Thursday], on the East Coast at Beterverwagting, I witnessed a heart-breaking situation.

Dear Editor, With the passage of the recent local government reform bills, there seems to be more interest in local government elections.

Dear Editor, We are deeply concerned about the arrest of Simona Broomes, President of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) and a champion in the fight against trafficking in Guyana, for the alleged theft of a gold chain from and assault against Ann Marie Carter, an alleged human trafficker, who has been arrested, detained and charged with the trafficking of children who were forced into sexual slavery.

Dear Editor, I live on First Avenue Block X Great Diamond facing west.

Dear Editor, I received a letter from the Guyana Post Office on Saturday last, telling me to go to the post office to retrieve the package my sister sent to me.

Dear Editor, I refer to Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh’s comment that the Inter-American Bank (IDB) has ceased the due diligence work on the Amaila Falls project. 

Dear Editor, Work on the Potaro Road started a few days ago, but they seem to be repairing the road instead of constructing a proper heavy-duty road with an asphalt surface.

When President Barack Obama delivered his speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, on Wednesday, on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech, he was standing, symbolically, in the shadow of Abraham Lincoln and in the footsteps of Dr King.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes this opportunity to set the record straight on the issue in which Mr Mark Isaacs, a deportee from the United States, accused Guyanese diplomatic officials based both here and in the United States of failing to help him in his battle with US authorities to avoid deportation.

Dear Editor, The Anna Regina Town Day 2013 was a total failure in terms of planning; there was no smoothly managed diversion of the traffic and vehicles had to drive through streets filled with potholes causing damage to their vehicles.

Dear Editor, This reflection is not a criticism of anyone, but rather a petition on behalf of our children and our beloved country, even as we agonize over the “lost art of expressing ourselves” (see Stabroek News, August 27, p13).

Dear Editor, After half a century and more as an attorney at law, Senior Counsel Mr Doodnauth Singh will no longer take part in the work of developing Caribbean or West Indian jurisprudence.

Dear Editor, Some weeks ago I was attracted by the headline: ‘Ministry mulls implementing streaming in schools’ (KN, July 22). 

Dear Editor, The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners’ Association (GGDMA) would like to respond to a letter captioned ‘Improper for GGDMA to call for the confirmation of the acting appointment in GGMC’ Stabroek News August 26; and ‘A contradictory call by the GGDMA’ in the Kaieteur News, August 25.

Dear Editor, Editor, please permit me a response to Mr Fizul Bacchus’ letter in the Stabroek News dated August 23 ‘The cricket bill is a political solution which will create more chaos in the future’ in which he attempted to proclaim my ignorance of the impending Cricket Administration Bill.

Dear Editor, Fifty years ago, the Rev Martin Luther King gave one of the most profound and inspiring speeches of all times which in a very fundamental way helped to shape the nature and course of race relations not only in the United States, but in the world at large.

The long August vacation is drawing to a close and teachers, parents and children are preparing for the beginning of the new school year and, in some instances, new schools.