Opinion

Dear Editor, The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act was passed unanimously by the National Assembly on  January 3, 2013.

Dear Editor, I erred when I did not allow Mr Christopher Ram to remain intoxicated in his own bewilderment.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to turn my attention as a former trade unionist with the Guyana Agricultural and General Worker’s Union to the question of some 140 Chinese workers employed in the construction  of  Marriott Hotel absent the input of members of the Guyanese labour force.

Dear Editor, The contractors contracted to clean the MMA/ADA drainage and irrigation canals used to employ up to four or five persons; nowadays many of these contractors don’t employ workmen at all.

Dear Editor, The citizens of Georgetown and Guyana must feel pained and a sense of sadness when they look at the state of the capital, and the many things that are ugly − a situation that need not have been.

Dear Editor, I hasten to pay tribute to the late Justice Aubrey Bishop, one of the most distinguished and outstanding chancellors the judiciary ever had.

Dear Editor, As the world prepares for the World Championships, I am eagerly awaiting the announcement of the participation of Americans, Allyson Felix, Sanya Richards and Carmelita Jeter.

Dear Editor, Many, if not most of us encounter persons in our walks of life who make an indelible impression on us either positive, negative or both, and whom our ‘delete’ memory button cannot erase.

On the eve of confirmation hearings for John O Brennan − President Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser and proposed CIA Director − the White House instructed the Department of Justice to share classified documents that justify its drone programme with two congressional Intelligence Committees. 

Dear Editor, Even as one who still spends time teaching, I find it hard to engage Mr Anil Nandlall, Attorney General, not only because of his proclivity for misunderstandings and misrepresentations (on the Budget cuts, on the Lotto Funds), but also because his frequent pronouncements show extremely poor acquaintance and at times no acquaintance, with the finer points of the Constitution, and because of his chameleonic quality of rearranging facts to fit his circumstances.

Dear Editor, The Enmore Police Station Management Committee views with satisfaction the recent conviction of a music cart vendor by Magistrate Zamilla Ally at the Cove & John Magistrate’s Court.

Dear Editor, I am positive that anyone with just a scintilla of feeling for others could not have avoided empathizing with that poignant missive by Regional Councillor Carl Parker highlighting the tribulations of the people dwelling in the hinterland, which was published in the January 19 edition of the SN under the heading:  ‘Should it not be the state’s responsibility to repatriate the body of a patient from Brazil when the state sent them there for treatment?’

Dear Editor, The letter in the media written by Mr Hubert Roberts, titled, ‘Georgetown citizens should awake from their slumber’ (SN, February 6) is timely.

Dear Editor, I hate penning these words but it’s gonna happen again.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago you carried a report of a meeting with the Guyana Consumers Association and auto dealers.

Obviously, when we focused, in last Friday’s editorial, on PJ Patterson’s cry from the heart and forthright warning about the perils of neglecting Caricom, we thought that his argument was well reasoned and very persuasive.

Dear Edfitor, By now it should be apparent to all that the root cause of our political dilemma lies in the nature of our constitution.

Dear Editor, The moribund PPP continues to target me for character assassination.