Opinion

Dear Editor, Guyana is home. It will always be my home even though I have spent over twenty-five years away from its homely embrace.

Dear Editor, As one who grew up in the sugar industry in Guyana and whose parents and relatives worked for this now beleaguered industry, I would like to ask a simple question. 

Dear Editor, The tabling of a new constitution for the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) through Parliament will become a reality via the government-initiated, Clive Lloyd-led Interim Management Committee (IMC).

In one of her final reports from the Syrian city of Homs, the American war correspondent Marie Colvin described the experience of watching a two-year old child die from a shrapnel wound.

Dear Editor, Whatever positives are derived from the current parliamentary configuration over the remainder of the current term could depend in large measure on the pivotal role of the Alliance For Change as a headliner and not a mere footnote in ongoing political deliberations.

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Open confession – so the saying goes – is good for the soul.

Dear Editor, With respect to the remarks made by President Donald Ramotar, in the February 12 edition of the Sunday Chronicle, it is not that I cannot appreciate the hurt which the President feels at not having the majority in Parliament, however, there certainly was no need for the President to make such ill-advised and inflammatory remarks.

Dear Editor, There are times when you see the obvious staring you in the face, and you wonder if it is just you or are there others, too, who might be seeing and thinking the same.

Dear Editor, With erosion by the sea in many parts of West Coast Berbice, the sea dam will have to be rebuilt.

Dear Editor, When life hands you lemons, you sometimes have no choice but to make lemonade.

Dear Editor, There seems to be an aggressive and deceptive campaign on the part of the PPP/C and their agents to hoodwink the people into supporting their call for fresh elections.

Dear Editor, I would like the new Minister of Labour to look into the modus operandi of those privately owned businesses where gross advantage is taken of employees.

University update

Dear Editor, I listen to myself and so often I hear a record, a repetition of sounds – rather than cogent ideas.

The vituperative, smear campaign against Henrique Capriles, following his landslide triumph in Venezuela’s Democratic Unity primary, on February 12, might have had more to do with concerns regarding President Hugo Chávez’s health than the wellbeing of democracy in Venezuela.

Dear Editor, Up to about two weeks ago a marriage licence from the Register General’s office was $0, now it is $6,000.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter published in the February 14 edition of the Stabroek News captioned ‘The Licensing Office needs a system more respectful of people’s time and energy’ by writer Karen De Souza in which she expounded on the waiting time she was exposed to during the process of  renewing her driver’s licence on February 10, 2012.

Dear Editor, Lethem was today transformed by youthful ebullience and colour as the Mashramani Children’s parade went through the community.

Dear Editor, Rahul Bhattacharya might have written a book about Guyana’s ‘cultivated’ classes – the university professors, law-makers, artists, community leaders, educators, etc, whose absence in his book The Sly Company Of People Who Care Ryhaan Shah notes in her letter of February 21captioned ‘No one is prepared to make the obvious connection…’ – and I personally think Bhattacharya is such a fine writer that in that case he would have created a wonderful book for our pleasure and enlightenment.