Opinion

Dear Editor, I have been a resident of Westminster Phase One, WCD for a little over one year, and there is a matter of grave concern which is affecting my community and its environs.

Dear Editor, If one is to go on the present statistics then it would be absolutely correct to deduce that something is mentally wrong with some of the members of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC).

Dear Editor, I was extremly happy and pleased to read your article captioned ‘Jagdeo, Trotman apologize…’ I wish to commend Mr Jagdeo and Mr Trotman for their bold and brave conduct shown at the recent gospel concert where they openly apologized to each other, with the nation as witness.

Dear Editor, David Granger headed the GDF’s first political training and indoctrination unit, the Education Corps, formed in the early 1970s.

Dear Editor, My letter to a local newspaper (SN) a year ago stated that Ramotar would be the worst disaster this country would experience if he became the next president.

Cricket board

The eruption of a virtual civil war in the Ivory Coast is really a long-delayed effect of the character of political rule which this country has experienced since its independence in 1960, in particular the long period of rule (1960-1993) under former President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.

Dear Editor, When I think of students leaving Georgetown armed with weapons to go to a school in Leonora in West Demerara to make war with student(s) there I am horrified.

Dear Editor, David Granger calls for a judicial inquiry into all aspects of the drug trade.

Dear Editor, Al Creighton’s poison pen, which is usually used to advance the interests of his elitist friends and viciously demolish the achievements of brilliant talent, has reached a new low in his absolutely ferocious denigration of Ron Morrison’s ‘Mori J’von Comedy Jam’ and Maria Edwards-Benschop’s  ‘Nothing to Laugh About.’

Dear Editor, I would like to air my two bits on the ongoing feud that has been engulfing our cricket lately.

Dear Editor, Further to your subject article published in your daily of March 9, captioned ‘Union wins key battle at RUSAL –derecognition denied’, please be informed that it was 131 members of the bargaining unit (employees of Bauxite Company Guyana Inc and members of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU)), who petitioned the Trade Union Recognition and Certification Board in December 2009 for the derecognition of GB&GWU.

Dear Editor, It was some time in 1972 that the Mighty Chalkdust sang a calypso which he called ‘Ah Fraid Karl.’

Dear Editor, My letter titled: ‘Guyana is not a democracy’ (SN, April 1) sought to provoke a national debate on the topic.

Politikles

Dear Editor, The decision by the Government of Norway to give Guyana the US$40M on the LCDS initiative is timely and a good decision; this country needs the money to continue its development. 

Some of us are still trying to get our minds around last Tuesday’s incident allegedly involving seventeen students from two city schools who, reportedly armed with knives, travelled several miles from Georgetown to Leonora, reportedly to settle a score with a student at the Leonora Secondary School.

Dear Editor, If you didn’t read Stabroek News’ March 31 editorial titled ‘Age of opportunity,’ you should read it.

Dear Editor, The Jagdeo term is not yet over, but its true nature is coming to light more and more.

Dear Editor, Of late, every so often I would hear some form of outlandish or convoluted political discussion, and depending on the topic I would thereafter make an effort to revisit sections of works by various distinguished writers who have in some way addressed the topic in question, in search of a semblance of sound and healthy understanding.