Opinion

Dear Editor, Protests should be peaceful, persistent yet forceful, even though justice or whatever is the goal might be a far way off. 

Politikles

Dear Editor, In relation to past, present and ongoing depression in the Linden area, its population should take heart from the following quote from the inaugural Independence address to the nation by President Ramotar on May 25, 2012, as reported in SN of May 26, 2012: Plans to revitalise village economies “Fellow Guyanese, our country has come a far way in building a dynamic society.  This

Analysts of political events inside the highly secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) usually preface their offerings by conceding that they include healthy measures of speculation, even hearsay.

Dear Editor, It is now five days since the deadly events in Linden, in which three men were shot dead by the police during a day of community protest.

Dear Editor, The most important terms of reference for the investigation into the Linden police shootings must be that it should be (1) led by external and objective officials; (2) selected by joint agreement between the government and the parliamentary opposition (and this must include the AFC); and (3) granted subpoena powers to summon witnesses and take testimony under oath.

Dear Editor, I have no illusion, no singular revelation, no special moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand hurting moments as a resident and leader of God‘s people in Region 10 producing in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to see a system that divides people by reason of race defeated, and a desire to resist a system that has imprisoned the people of Region 10.

Dear Editor, Regarding (letters in SN) President Donald Ramotar’s cricket comment in his Caricom speech about the West Indies Cricket Board taking international matches to Florida instead of utilizing facilities developed by regional governments to benefit their own territories, the President is not in tune with the views of diaspora lovers of cricket in North America.

Dear Editor, Last year a young man whom I knew from childhood who left Guyana in his early teens and went to live in the United States of America with his family, distinguished himself by becoming an international lawyer.

Dear Editor, I would like to join with the rest of Guyana in expressing heartfelt condolences to the families and relatives who lost their loved ones during the recent shooting spree at a peaceful picketing exercise in Linden. 

News that the investigation into the macabre killing of eight men at Lindo Creek in 2008 has come to an end is unlikely to convince members of the public that real answers will be forthcoming.

Dear Editor, Ron Somerset, Shemroy Bouyea and Ivan Lewis  are now martyrs to Guyana’s version of independent and republican democracy.

Dear Editor, I had previously refrained from commenting on the allegations, indeed arguments and counter-arguments, about the apparent conflict of interest involving the Minister of Finance and his wife, Mrs Geetanjali Singh from the Audit Office.

Dear Editor, As a Linden layperson and an ex-Linmine pensioner, I’m tired of hearing about the subsidies that the goverment has been giving to Linden to make up the cost of their electricity tariffs. 

Dear Editor, I must commend the effort by the government, most especially Minister Robert Persaud and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) for imposing a temporary halt on the granting of new licences for river mining.

Dear Editor, ‘Apology as Chairman of the Board stands‘ refers (SN, July 21). 

Dear Editor, The Region Two Management Committee is very concerned that after the National and Regional Elections, neither the Leader, the Chairman or any member of the National Management Committee has seen it fit to visit this region, despite several requests made by us, and promises that visits would be made.

Last week, demonstrators were on the streets of the major cities of Spain in their hundreds of thousands.

Dear Editor, It is with deep concern that I condemn the killing of Guyanese citizens at Linden, who were engaged in protest activities against a very steep increase in their electricity rates, by the Guyana Police Force.