Opinion

Today is World AIDS Day around the world and it is being commemorated under the theme ‘Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections.

Dear Editor, A close relative of mine had to attend the government health clinic yesterday, Wednesday November 30 at Lusignan on the East Coast of Demerara, and to her disappointment and an element of chagrin she was informed by a nearby resident that the Government Health Centre was closed because the workers were afraid to come to work because of the election tension.

As the Eurozone crisis has continued, an interesting development has been the interest of the so-called emerging economic powers of what has hitherto been called the Third World in a positive outcome, and hints of a willingness to help achieve that, given appropriate conditions.

Dear Editor, There have been many calls for peace during this election.

Politikles

Dear Editor, It is never wise to criticize anyone for their shortsightedness in public, even when methodological flaws are involved.

Dear Editor, As a retired UK trade unionist, trying to keep up with what black youth up here call the ‘runnings’ at home, please allow me to comment on Al Creighton’s letter ‘Executive of UG Workers’ Union has not been elected‘ (SN, November 26) First of all, without questioning any of his assertions about the undemocratic nature of the UGWU in general and the alleged illegitimacy of its chief cook and bottle-washer, Freddie Kissoon, I note that Mr Creighton chose to air his longstanding concerns just a few days before the general election.

Dear Editor, Mr Barrington Braithwaite in a letter to SN on November 27 titled ‘Only APNU has the expertise to rescue this nation‘ confirms the attitude of those who form the PNC in APNU, ie that they alone have the solutions to Guyana’s problems.

Dear Editor, It is said that it is not guns which kill people, but people who kill people.

Dear Editor, As I watched my father, Moses Nagamootoo make his final appearance at the Parade Ground and utter his final words of the campaign to the people of Guyana, I could not help but think that he has given it his all; he has made the choices and decisions he had to make to help secure a better Guyana for all.

Dear Editor, Guyana headed to the polls yesterday after what has to be one of the nastiest campaigns ever run by a political party in this country.

Dear Editor, Yesterday, November 28, two sister Caricom states – Guyana and St Lucia – held general elections.

Dear Editor, We need codes of ethical conduct, rules or laws by which we can hold our high public officials to account.

Politikles

It took exactly seven months, from his first announcement on April 23 that he would step down, to the eventual signing of the agreement on November 23, for Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh to finally bring his thirty three-year grip on power – first, as President of the then North Yemen since 1978 and from 1991 as President of a unified Yemen – to an end.

Dear Editor, I would like to add some comments to your editorial titled ‘Rush Hour‘ (November 24).

Dear Editor, Let’s have chair seating as opposed to hard wood seating at future National Track Championships.

Dear Editor, Early in the month of October , I encountered a donkey in the Atlantic Gardens area  on the East Coast of Demerara with wobbly front legs and hoofs projecting sideways in a deformed kind of  way and a growth hanging like a pouch under his chest; there was also a scar on his back seemingly from a wound.

Dear Editor, During this season of national and regional elections we are see a lot unfolding right before our eyes, but when persons resort to impersonating others for reasons unknown it becomes very personal.

Dear Editor, The BBC and the local newspapers have reported that the USA and others in the axis have imposed new sanctions against Iran and as usual the UN Secretary General and all the peace and human rights advocates have stayed silent or even supported them against Iran, in the same way they stayed silent or supported Israeli crimes against Lebanon and the Palestinians, and the killing of nine peace activists in international waters.