Opinion

Dear Editor, Joyce Noreen Hoyte, who was born on November 30, 1934 and died on February 14, 2011, was a strong, shrewd woman and gracious First Lady, who lived a dignified and humble life.

Dear Editor, During the month of January, I read many opinion articles on the possible winners for Sports Awards for 2010.

Dear Editor, As a regular reader of Cynthia Nelson’s fine pieces on Guyanese/Caribbean cooking in The Scene in Saturday’s edition of Stabroek, I should not have been surprised at the quality of her book Tastes Like Home. 

Dear Editor, Unarguably, the epitome of all cricket events has dawned upon us yet again; it will unfold in the sub-continent in a little more than a day’s time.

Dear Editor, It is becoming more difficult to traverse the roadway between Success to Better Hope on the East Coast of Demerara due to heavy traffic build-ups.

Prisoner

Dear Editor, The idea that Indians are voting race because of fear has replaced, in some narrations, one of the politicians’s explanations that was current from the fifties and which had become a standard by the end of the twentieth century.

All across Caricom, within the physical confines of its geopolitical space and beyond, in the diaspora and the broader sphere of cyberspace, tough, painful questions are being asked of those charged with the region’s collective welfare.

Last week’s launch of the Scotia/Pepsi Schools Football Academy and plans for a grassroots countrywide football programme in April are encouraging signs and have the potential to tap in on the embryonic stage of sport locally.

Dear Editor, Allow me to vary a well-known biblical injunction and assert that, “dissensions will always arise, but woe to those who fan the flames of dissension.” 

Dear Editor, The debate around the use of the secret ballot to select the presidential candidate for the People’s Progressive Party, of which I am a long-standing member and activist, is heating up.

Dear Editor,Everyone knows that we should make purchases using the metric system such as metre, litre and gram, but this does not happen with the general populace.

Dear Editor, The rift between the two Demerara Cricket Boards seems to be ultimately based on the disagreement about the number of delegates/votes from Georgetown, West Coast, West Bank, East Bank, and East Coast Demerara.

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Politikles

On Monday, a nine-year-old boy was found dead on his parents’ poultry farm in a remote Berbice village.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the cartoon which was published under the title ‘Politikles’ in the Stabroek News of Monday, February 7.

Dear Editor, I had to purchase a postage stamp to post someone a Valentine card and to my chagrin and disappointment discovered that the stamp had no adhesive paste on its back.

Dear Editor, I would like to highlight the poor customer service being meted out to residents of Cummings Lodge by the Guyana Water Inc.

Dear Editor, I refer to this laptop for families episode, and the pious statements by our Head of State to the effect that, the Kaieteur News is now, as he puts it, a part of the opposition, and is trying to deny citizens the opportunity to share and obtain information.