Opinion

Dear Editor, On Monday the President appointed Dr Leslie Ramsammy as the Minister of Agriculture in the newly formed cabinet, passing over Mr Dharamkumar Seeraj, the General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producer’s Association (GRPA).

Dear Editor, Vishnu Bisram feels that we should scrap the 1980 constitution instead of changing it and we should revert to the 1966 constitution.

Dear Editor, Dr Surujbally declared that Gecom and its staff do not practise dishonesty or collaboration with any political party.

Dear Editor, I find it despicable that the back of Mr James Bond should show evidence of the brutality dispensed by the Guyana Police Force.

Politikles

A president chooses his own cabinet, or at least he should.

Dear Editor,                           I cannot escape the daily sight of a desperate and helpless child in need of an education, yet he is joyfully embraced by his mentally challenged mother who daily seeks sympathy from a sometimes hostile public while being exposed to the wrath of the weather.

Thursday’s Cartoon

GECOM has given itself a pass mark for its conduct of the national and regional elections.

Dear Editor, Having been present at the compilations of all General and Regional Elections since 1992, an interesting statistic is evident – more so after the 2006 and the just concluded 2011 elections.

Dear Editor, APNU/PNC came second in the elections. It got about 26,000 votes less than the PPP.

Dear Editor, In a two-part series captioned ‘Expectations for  the 2011 national elections in Guyana‘  (‘In the Diaspora,’ SN, July 5 and 12, 2010) in which I reviewed the strengths and weaknesses of the three major political parties, the PPP, PNC and AFC, at the time, I wrote: “I believe the governing PPP is likely to be returned with a majority.

Dear Editor, As a citizen of Guyana, I am proud of our youth and I would like all of our adult Guyanese to give thanks and praise to our youth who have let their votes that were cast on November 28 bring back some pride and dignity to the Guyanese people.

Dear Editor, The outcome of last week’s general elections in Guyana reminds me of what happened in Trinidad in 2001 as a result of a division in the ruling camp when a party stalwart was not on the party’s list of candidates.

Dear Editor, I wish to extend heartiest congratulations to President Donald Ramotar who led the PPP/C to a minority victory in the free, fair and open elections of November 28 last.

Dear Editor, This morning on Canadian National Radio, there was an excellent documentary on the minority outcome of Russia’s recent parliamentary elections, and the unpopularity of Vladimir Putin who until now has been gleefully attempting to stage a comeback.

Coinciding closely with the elections in Guyana and just before the forthcoming ones in Jamaica on December 29, general elections were concluded in St Lucia on November 28, with the opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) displacing the former Prime Minister Sir John Compton’s United Workers Party (UWP) with an 11-6 majority in the country’s House of Assembly.

Dear Editor, Re: ‘Ramotar adds few new faces, ministry to cabinet,‘ (SN, December 6), President Donald Ramotar did say that his cabinet will be comprised entirely of PPP/Civic members, except for the Prime Minister who came in on the new Civic arm in 1992 and Bishop Juan Edghill’s appointment to Minister within the Ministry of Finance.

Politikles

Now that the elections are done and dusted the Guyana electorate has, for the first time in our history, presented the political ‘bosses’ with a genuine headache.