Opinion

Dear Editor, Recently I was privileged to have the opportunity of listening to an outstanding singing voice, namely, that of John Braithwaite Critchlow, known around the world as Johnny Braff.

Dear Editor, I wish to take this opportunity to salute the Coast Guard for work well done.

Dear Editor, Those of us who watched the Ladies US 2012 Open final would agree that the pendulum swung both ways.

Dear Editor, When I received an email from a colleague inside the TUC in London informing me about today’s demonstration outside South Africa House in London, in support of the mine workers killed in South Africa and the dismissed bauxite workers in Guyana, my first thought was, why no mention of the slaughtered three at Linden.

Dear Editor, I have absolutely no regrets about the glowing way in which I wrote on the election of Barack Obama as head of the White House and the first black president of the USA: ‘Obama has become another Moses to the world’ (SN, Nov 2008).

The Guyana Police Force may have closed the chapter on the Lindo Creek massacre on Tuesday when it interred the burnt remains of the eight victims after a funeral service, but the complete book has not been written – at least not for some of the relatives of the slain men – and perhaps it never will be.

Dear Editor, Recently, there have been letters discussing the US presidential elections and predictions have come from all directions as to the outcome, with the current polls showing an election too close to call.

Dear Editor, It was the hope of the two authentic booksellers left in Guyana that after the end of Mr Shaik Baksh’s tenure as Minister of Education, the practice of illegally printing textbooks for schools would have ended.

Dear Editor, In Saturday’s Stabroek News (September 8) a Jamaican attorney-at-law, Hugh Wildman, reportedly asserted, inter alia, that the quality of judgements of the Privy Council is “far superior” to those emanating from our Caribbean Court of Justice and in purported proof of his conclusion, he cited an unspecified case in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I have always taken a keen interest in the careers of students with whom I had interacted, whether directly or indirectly. 

Dear Editor, I write in response to a series of inaccurate information in the media by elements of the opposition in their rabid attack against the former President and his pension plan.

Dear Editor, The government representatives, officials, big-business miners, the Private Sector Commission, etc, in condemning the Linden electrical increase protest spouted all sorts of things.

Dear Editor, During a portion of the corruption debates on NCN Channel 11 last week, a most awkward statement was made by the former Head of the Public Service, Nanda K Gopaul who said, “What is wrong with a former President seeking to ensure that he lives a comfortable life after his presidency?”

Dear Editor, I applaud the government and opposition for expediting the inquiry into the Linden shooting agreeing to its terms of reference and the composition of the Commission of Inquiry.

The announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia that his government will recommence negotiations with the main guerilla grouping, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), towards a solution of their continuing contention over the movement of narcotics in the context of a wider, long-running civil war, has been welcomed on all sides.

Dear Editor, The tragic death of former Commissioner of Police Henry Greene has brought home in no uncertain terms the different times in which we live.