Opinion

Dear Editor, I only just read Dr Cox’s response to your request for a comment on my letter in your July 31 edition (‘Matter is subjudice’) . 

Dear Editor, I wish to extend heartiest congratulations to Ronsford Beaton on his appointment as the captain of the Guyana Under 19 Cricket Team presently contesting the West Indies Under 19 3-day competition.

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Elections are coming and politicians from all parties are beginning to warm up.

Dear Editor, Your editorial (SN, August 2) on the vulnerability of the NIS, from a number of perspectives, is most timely and invites serious attention towards stimulating the sustainability of this institution’s vital contribution to the social well-being of so many beneficiaries, including in particular pensioners; and to a significant extent also, working female single parents.

Dear Editor, Few other issues expose the shortcomings of governance and politics in Guyana than that of public procurement.

Dear Editor, Further to your observations in the SN editorial of August 2, I am writing to agree totally with your statement:  “Indeed, it is doubtful that a single day goes by without someone having to face claim-related problems associated with employer non-remittance of contributions.

Dear Editor, The increasing number of women in the workforce is a good indicator that women have more freedom and liberties as compared to the past, where women were negatively stereotyped and deprived of their rights and freedoms due to a malecentric line of thinking.

Dear Editor, I write to highlight, I hope, an oversight by a number of institutions.

Dear Editor, The PPP has spent over $1.45 trillion (US$7.257 billion) in the last 19 years.

Dear Editor, Karl Marx wrote over one-and-a-half centuries ago that the history of all hitherto existing society is a history of class struggle.

It is estimated that today more than 1.5 billion of the world’s 7 billion people still live without electricity and are basically denied access to the 21st century with all its new and evolving technology.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your news item ‘Meeting between T&T PM, unions fails to resolve issues’ (SN, Jul 28). 

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Dear Editor, I write in reference to Guyana Chronicle article by Chevon Singh, captioned ‘Housing Minister accuses Stabroek News, APNU of insulting Muslim community.’

Dear Editor, In a letter appearing in Stabroek News of Monday August 1, captioned ‘Kissoon’s fears are misplaced,’ Mr Anil Nandlall, signing as “MP and Attorney-at-Law for President Bharrat Jagdeo,” states that the exercise of the fundamental right to freedom of expression in a manner which may prejudice or influence the outcome of a pending case, or which may bring the administration of justice into disrepute, constitutes a contempt of court.

Dear Editor, When the Abolition Act was passed in 1833 and emancipation was made final in 1838, and by extension, when indentureship came to an end in 1917, these acts conjured up the idea of ‘freedom.’

The appointment of Mr Irwin LaRocque as Secretary General of the Caricom Secretariat has been generally welcomed, and we join others in that regard.

Another Trini