Opinion

Dear Editor, The NCN online radio broadcasts have been ‘dead’ for weeks.

Dear Editor, On behalf of his several close former GuySuCo colleagues, congratulations are extended to Narvon Persaud for being recognised, however belatedly, by the administration, as a competent professional worthy of chairing the Technical Team recently appointed to investigate the Linden power crisis.

Dear Editor, I am appealing to the Government of Guyana in collaboration with the Guyana Teachers‘ Union to pay attention to a very important issue that is being discussed by teachers, especially the senior ones, and that is the issue of duty-free concessions to senior masters/mistresses (SM) and heads of department (HOD) in the teaching system.

Dear Editor, It is now evident that the National Sports Commission headed by Director of Sport Neil Kumar is not satisfied with the leadership of the President of the Guyana Olympic Association K Juman-Yassin.

Dear Editor, Regarding your news item about the T&T Prime Minister dismissing Junior Minister of National Security Colin Partap (SN Aug 28), most Trinis I spoke with  in New York and in Trinidad feel the PM did the right thing to discipline her Minister, although some feel she acted in haste not waiting for a report on the entire episode. 

Just about a week ago, the New Opportunity Corps (NOC)—the juvenile detention facility at Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast—saw a mass breakout of inmates followed by rampages that included fires and which carried over into the next day.

Dear Editor, The ongoing live debate on corruption on NCN on Sunday night is welcome – moreso because many prefer to look at TV rather than read the newspapers.

Dear Editor, In August 2010, the Juvenile Offenders Amendment Act and the Training School Amendment Act were passed in the National Assembly.

Dear Editor, The case of the contract award pertaining to the construction of the specialty hospital already begins to assume the silhouette of the Amaila Falls project. 

Dear Editor, As part of the larger community improvement programme in Georgetown and other municipalities, I have joined many others in noting the enormous, concerted efforts over the years by government agencies, NGOs, diplomatic community groups, private citizens and, more recently, a clean-up campaign orchestrated by an “implementation committee” headed by Mr Keith Burrowes.

Dear Editor, The ferry crossing from Manhattan to Staten Island in New York is a very important service on which millions depend each year.

Dear Editor, Based on the recent 2012 CSEC results, students from Marian Academy performed excellently.

A political succession after a death of the head of government in Ethiopia, certainly does not have the same resonance in the Caribbean today, that it would have had either when Haile Selassie was removed (some claim smothered to death) in 1974, or even when his successor Haile Mariam Mengistu was overthrown in 1987, after a civil war led by forces effectively under the command of Meles Zenawi who assumed power as Prime Minister in 1991, and died in the course of medical attention in Brussels last week.

Dear Editor,       It is my firm belief that the new Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) must divert from its old ideology of semi-dictatorial governance.

Dear Editor, Permit me to congratulate the management and staff of the Passport Office on Camp Street for the excellent job they are doing under difficult circumstances.

Dear Editor, The recent letter by Swami Aksharananda, the Principal of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) school, relating to the school’s recent CXC results is one of the most important educational statements carried in the media in recent years.

Dear Editor, The 30th Olympics in London are finished and the Paralympics will start on August 29, when about 5000 athletes with disabilities from 165 different countries will be taking part.