Opinion

‘Sloppy reading of the Weekend Mirror and the legislation’

Dear Editor, In a calculated display of vulgar abuse (“political opportunism,” “taint of racially inspired motives,” etc) which I will not dignify with a response, nor would I the ad hominems or trivialities liberally sprinkled over his letter of February 29 (‘Ramkarran has disregarded essential facts…‘), Mr Christopher Ram seeks to respond in the Stabroek News to an article I wrote in the Weekend Mirror, later published in the Guyana Chronicle.

Gonsalves’ Caricom salvo

The ferocity of recent widely publicized observations, written in a letter from Prime Minister Gonsalves to Caricom Secretary General Irwin LaRocque on the progress, or lack of it, as he perceives it, of Caricom integration, reflects an obvious frustration on the part of the Prime Minister which is not entirely inconsistent with his demeanour, but is nevertheless surprising.

Come on NCN!

Let’s hope that neither the Suriname Embassy in Georgetown nor any of President Bouterse’s news-monitoring aides in Paramaribo regularly monitor NCN’s hourly news casts; if they do then Takuba Lodge may be the recipient of a terse diplomatic note protesting NCN’s recent reference to President Desi Bouterese as President Donald Ramotar’s “Dutch counterpart.”

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