Opinion

Dear Editor, According to an online article, ‘Guyana calls for relevant inquiry into the state of world’s cultural wellbeing,’  (UNMultimedia.org,

Dear Editor, A few days ago, a hire car driver whose vehicle was involved in an accident in Region 2 related to me that he was advised by the police to get a document agreeing to a settlement between the parties involved from a justice of peace, so the matter could be settled at the station.

Dear Editor, I read with great sadness in the newspapers about the passing of the academic and literary scholar Kampta Karran.

Dear Editor, Guyana has done well in terms of meeting the MDG goals particularly in the area of poverty alleviation and the reduction of hunger among the several other indicators.

Increasingly intense diplomacy among the Nato powers about the turmoil in Syria has been a feature of the last few weeks leading to this week’s G8 meeting hosted by Britain in Northern Ireland, once a similar scene of political-religious and military turmoil.

Dear Editor, President Donald Ramotar announced on June 14, that he has used his executive privilege to “instruct the board … to stand down on the proposed 26.7 per cent tariff increase…”  There is no news like good news. 

Dear Editor,   I refer to Mr Ram’s most recent letter captioned ‘GPL has to be accountable, transparent and efficient’ (Stabroek News June 15). 

Dear Editor, I read the defences offered on behalf of what can only be rightly termed ‘super salaries.’

Dear Editor, When former President of the then Guyana Cricket Board of Control, Mr Chetram Singh, acceded to the presidency of the GCBC, it was public knowledge that the entity was millions of dollars in the red.

Dear Editor, Shri Kampta Karran’s passing come as a shock to me and I would like to express sincere condolences to his family. 

Dear Editor, I am very saddened to read of the sudden death of my friend Kampta Karran in Berbice.

Dear Editor, Etwaria Kumar carried herself so humbly that it was very easy to be unaware of all her accomplishments.

Dear Editor, The day will come when the political parties will ask Guyanese to support them in a national election.

The tension that has made the Korean peninsula a global flashpoint for much of 2013 appears to have subsided  with the toning down  of North Korea’s nuclear rhetoric directed at the South and the US and Pyongyang’s call last week for “senior level” nuclear talks with Washington.

Dear Editor, June 16 marks 65 years since the colonial police gunned down five sugar workers on the East Coast of Demerara, who were among the group struggling for better working conditions.

Dear Editor, The article appearing in the sports section of your Wednesday issue headlined ‘Anandjit says not his signature on document submitted to Parliamentary Select Committee’ and prominently featuring photos of Mr Anandjit and myself refers.

Dear Editor, We all share the concerns expressed by the British High Commissioner when he renewed the call for local government elections.

Dear Editor, Two things.  I would like to publicly apologise to Kojo McPherson, one of the higher profile young poets, for my accusations of what I misperceived to be his cowardice on not speaking out on the Caribbean Press.