Opinion
A denial of freedom of expression in art
Dear Editor, The reported banning of the year’s calypsos, or some of them from the government’s radio station or radio and TV stations is a denial of freedom of expression in art.
Sunday Cartoon
Young men trying to capture birds with slingshots
Dear Editor, It was just after 8 am on January 12, 2013.
Linden report
The long-awaited Commission of Inquiry report on the events in Linden on July 18, 2012 has now been released.
Guyana badly needs a deep water harbour
Dear Editor, I was pleased to see that a very large delegation of Brazilians were entertained by a similarly large delegation from Guyana to discuss the building of a deep water harbour, a hydroelectric dam and the road from Brazil to the Guyana coast.
Guyanese may now be willing to urge their political representatives to talk about urgent constitutional reform before another election
Dear Editor, The following are my personal views. The effect of the recent ruling of the Speaker confirms the limited effectiveness of the National Assembly.
The Advisory Board under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act would provide the institutional fulcrum to give life to its provisions
Dear Editor, Congratulations to everyone who contributed to and signed the powerful letter calling for the full implementation of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (Stabroek News, March 1).
There is a certain hypocrisy in play in relation to alcohol and children
Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News and the Guyana Times have carried reports of an issue in Berbice in which alcohol was found on a student (or students) who was on a school tour to Georgetown.
Compensation recommendation for the Linden victims insufficient
Dear Editor, If what is being leaked from the Linden Commission of Inquiry report is accurate then it is fair to say that life is Guyana is very cheap.
Guyanese need to be more creative
Dear Editor, It’s time for us to become sincerely Guyanese, so that we could unmistakably identified.
Indifference to literature?
It is hard to believe that books can still provoke demonstrations and death threats but in mid-February the 75-year-old Azeri novelist Akram Aylisli became the target of public anger reminiscent of the Rushdie fatwa.
The Commission of Inquiry report could be a beacon for change
Dear Editor, The dignity of Guyanese and the destiny of a democratic Guyana are in peril.
I demand to see my lawyer
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act needs to be fully implemented
Dear Editor, Eighteen years ago, in the context of a health crisis in which septic and incomplete abortions accounted for the third and eighth largest causes respectively of admission to public hospitals in Guyana, a network of women’s groups, health professionals and human rights activists engaged in a wide-ranging debate advocating for legislation to address unsafe and unregulated abortions.
‘Did not say calypso judges breached rules’
Dear Editor, I have noted the repeated claims by Stabroek News in its columns of Monday and Tuesday 25th and 26th February claiming that at my post Cabinet press briefing, I said the judges of the Mash Calypso competition breached the rules.
Can a law out of tune with fundamental rights and ‘saved’ by the constitution be used as superior to the fundamental rights provisions?
Dear Editor, This letter is about two cases of struggles in Guyana without racial conflict.
The Linden report will be bland and inconsequential
Dear Editor, Now that the Linden Commission of Inquiry has handed in its report, there is wondering in some quarters as to what is contains and what happens next.
A case of wrongful imprisonment of an unborn child
Dear Editor, It was some time during the early-mid 1970s that I enjoyed watching a movie titled The Sting, the thrust and cut of which was an elaborate scheme by some people to con, steal or rob others of their money.
GDF did not reject anyone by the name of Kishan Ganesh for the officers’ course
Dear Editor, The Guyana Defence Force notes the publication of a letter in the February 20 edition of Kaieteur News, purportedly written by one Kishan Ganesh who claims to have been rejected for admission to the Force’s Standard Officers’ Course (‘The Commodore’s mockery of Jagan’s education ideals’).
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