Opinion

In a meeting with the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry on February 27, the Minister of Home Affairs is  reported as having said that the private sector will participate in the selection of 10 civilians to oversee sweeping police reforms that were announced on December 31st last year.

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.

Dear Editor, It was just after 8 am on January 12, 2013.

The long-awaited Commission of Inquiry report on the events in Linden on July 18, 2012 has now been released.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Dear Editor, It’s time for us to become sincerely Guyanese, so that we could unmistakably identified.

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.

Dear Editor, The dignity of Guyanese and the destiny of a democratic Guyana are in peril.

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.

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.

Dear Editor, This letter is about two cases of struggles in Guyana without racial conflict.

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. 

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.