Opinion

Dear Editor, As a youngster, I remember Ramleela plays being staged around this time of the year in the villages on the Corentyne. 

Dear Editor, Closing down Mr Sharma‘s TV station Channel 6 shows clearly the disposition of the PPP/C government.

Dear Editor, I was very surprised to read that an old man like Mr Adolphus James who was 91, was employed as a security guard.

Dear Editor, In the good old days when the PPP was in opposition and comrades were genuine comrades, one of the lessons taught at the famous Accabre College was the laws of dialectics.

Dear Editor, In reading your article ‘Pradoville 2 needs commission of inquiry’ in Sunday Stabroek of October 2, the AFC presidential candidate Mr Khemraj Ramjattan was quoted as stating, “…the ordinary person would have had to go through a vigorous process to get a [house] lot including proving that they have children.”

Dear Editor, Steve Jobs was no doubt an icon in the computer world and his passing would be greatly felt.

The citation for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize – awarded simultaneously to the activists Leymah Gbowee (Liberia)  Tawakkul Karman (Yemen) and the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia – notes that  “[w]e cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society.”

Politikles

Dear Editor, Two separate messages on Sunday, October 2, 2011, somehow interlinked in my mind.

Dear Editor, In the past the Ministry of Finance had always been my favourite government agency because of the way they treated pensioners.

Dear Editor I refer to an article in your newspaper on Wednesday, October 5, captioned ‘Head of breakaway PNCR faction calls on Mingo to resign’ Leader of the Guyana Youth Congress (GYC) has called on Chairman Mingo to resign his position as a representative of the PNCR on the grounds that his judgment is questionable over the offer of a lot at Pradoville 2.

Dear Editor, I am neither proud nor ashamed to say that I am one of the persons who did not vote at the last elections in Guyana.

Dear Editor, The following are my concepts on race and ethnic relations in this country: * Guyana seemingly has no dominant ethnic group.

Dear Editor,   It was completely appropriate for a correspondent to Stabroek News to bemoan Sir Shridath Ramphal’s unjustified tribute to President Jagdeo on the occasion of the appreciation charade jointly funded by both appreciators and depreciators (taxpayers).

Dear Editor, I commend former senior PNCR member, Joseph Hamilton, for being ‘big’ enough to follow his heart.

Some six months after Michel Martelly was announced as the winner of Haiti’s presidential election, the country finally has a prime minister in the person of Dr Garry Conille, following his ratification by the Senate on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, Your editorial of October 3 on the closure of Channel 6 and the actions by the President against Mr Sharma sums up all aspects of this case, and I applaud your concise and incisive comments.

Dear Editor, With APNU contesting the upcoming elections on a platform of shared governance and power-sharing in the form of a Government of National Unity (GNU), the debate on the merits and demerits of this idea has resurfaced.

Dear Editor, I seriously wonder if the PPP spinners like Prem Misir do think before they parrot propaganda.

Dear Editor, The ‘Cilly’ (pronounced ‘silly’) season is back again. Fortunately it is not an annual celebration, but merely a selected opportunistic time when the ‘horsepowers’ of the private engine of growth, who were left braced against the tape the last time around, are now required to reverse to the starting block and re-engineer those proactive programmes of competitiveness which simmered in between seasons.