Opinion

Dear Editor, My absence from home is made more bearable by the plethora of Guyana-focused online publications. 

Media accounts of the recent shocking episode of the bullying and intimidation of a team of NIS officers by a prominent businessman and his employees suggest that the act was as crude as it was barefaced,   One of the more disturbing things about the incident is that it appeared to matter little to the perpetrators that they were unlawfully and forcefully menacing and impeding public servants pursuing their legitimate duties as officials of the state.

Dear Editor, I am responding to Malcolm Harripaul’s letter (‘The Federation of Indian Americans should not be endorsing a Guyanese presidential candidate’ SN, August 12) in which he made incorrect comments about the FIA, seeking to bring it into disrepute.

Kurutuku

Dear Editor, The life jackets in some of the passenger boats plying the Parika-Supenaam route need to be tested.

Dear Editor, It is indeed heartening to see the several inputs from the various security experts including the likes of Clairmonte Featherstone who, if my memory serves me right, attended my old school, Fountain AME; Rohan Singh, Head, Presidential Guard; Alan Gates; and columnist Allan Fenty who has done yeoman service with his Crime Watch contributions.

Dear Editor, Hydar Ally jumps to fraudulent conclusions without close examination of the facts and without engaging in proper comparison.

Dear Editor, On my visit to Berbice, a member of the 600-strong crowd at the Alliance For Change (AFC) Canje meeting asked me, why a young man like you still got time for Guyana, when you can just progress your life in North America and forget about “abee these”? 

Dear Editor, August 15 marks the 65th Independence day for India. 

Dear Editor, This week there was much to talk about, and clearly the ‘silly season’ has arrived.

Politikles

That 29 tonnes of building material was shipped to State House in 2009 in the name of President Jagdeo should not be a problem in ordinary circumstances.

The New York Post is a wicked newspaper! Deh paint Ed Ahmad like if de man is a clone of Allen Stanford.

Dear Editor, The European integration process is in tatters as the once-strong economies of Spain, Italy and Belgium stand precariously to follow the path that already has dramatically weakened Greece, Portugal, and Ireland.

Dear Editor, I write to corroborate Mr Philip Allsopp’s experiences with the police sports noises (‘The police are breaking the noise nuisance law’ SN, August 12).

Dear Editor, I’ve been in Haiti for the past seven months and would like to verify if there is a Guyana Embassy here, but it’s proving difficult.

President Jagdeo was holding forth on one of his favourite topics on Thursday – post-independence Guyanese history.

Dear Editor, The Alliance For Change is profoundly disappointed, but not the least bit surprised at the slandering of the political opposition at the PPP’s youth event at the International Conference Centre. 

FIFA

Dear Editor, I read with interest and encouragement an initiative taken by the Minister of Home Affairs to set up a broad-based committee to monitor the public transportation system on the East Coast Demerara and to make recommendations regarding improving the system.