Opinion

Dear Editor, I recently had to go to the Licence Office on Smyth Street to conduct a transaction, and the general environment of this building is unbelievably poor and unhealthy.

Dear Editor, After reading about all these domestic violence cases, physical and mental abuse, molestations of young girls and in some cases young boys, and different perverse behaviours, I think it is time women begin to look at themselves; question themselves.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Annan Boodram in which he stated: “Somehow, it seems that Freddie Kissoon has an obsession with Annan Boodram….” 

Dear Editor, The Oliver Tambo award should be rightly given to the people of Guyana.

At the beginning of this month, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved new funding arrangements to help stabilize the Jamaican economy and put it on a path to economic growth.

Dear Editor, About two weeks ago I had published a letter to the editor which dealt with the urgent need for Guyana to upgrade its anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism laws in keeping with CFAT recommendations made four years ago.

Dear Editor, I have become deeply concerned about the lack of a sense of civic responsibility displayed by certain corporate citizens in their dealings with consumers.

Dear Editor, I read with interest and some amusement the exchanges over the South African award to deceased president LFS Burnham.

Dear Editor, In previous letters to your newspaper, I have expressed my deep concern about the rising crime rate in Guyana, and the need for our security forces to demonstrate a greater ability to arrest the situation.

Dear Editor, To say that I am justifiably elated as a senior citizen, when what I have privately discussed among my peers has been taken up by politicians, is an understatement.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News of Sunday, May 12, 2013, under the caption, ‘Brazil mob may have executed Guyanese couple over stolen cache.’

Dear Editor, For quite some time I have been wondering about how many government and private agencies force people to waste time.

Dear Editor, I would like to commend the person who wrote on the topic of corporal punishment in this day and age on May 1.

Politikles

Dear Editor, All Guyanese citizens are products of Guyana’s school system.

It is not at all surprising that the nation has not immersed itself in oceans of shock and awe following last week’s two reported vigilante killings. 

Dear Editor, We write in relation to the current impasse between the residents of the Amerindian titled village of Hururu and the Bauxite Company Guyana Inc (BCGI).

Dear Editor, As a Guyanese national who has been involved at the Cabinet level in the adoption of the country’s foreign policy decisions, and as someone with a longstanding and profound admiration for Nelson Mandela and for the South Africa that he has bequeathed, I feel an abundant concern at the decision to defer the grant of the posthumous offer of the Oliver Tambo Award to the late Forbes Burnham.

Dear Editor, There can never be rationalization for the utter depravity that occurred in Sophia and Berbice last week. 

Dear Editor, With keen interest I have followed the unbelievable dispute on whether Forbes Burnham should be granted an award for his contributions to the struggles against apartheid.