Opinion

Only six weeks after United States Secretary of Defense Dr Robert Gates visited Barbados on  April 16 to launch the ‘Caribbean Basin Security Initiative,’ US Attorney General Eric Holder convened a one-day ‘Dialogue’ in Washington, DC on May 27 to launch the ‘Caribbean-United States Security Cooperation Initiative.’

Dear Editor, Comments like those offered by the Hon. Justice Roxanne George on May 27th, 2010 are the kind of comments that will never allow me to stay away from Guyana since she represents the cherished few who still believe in a just society and are not serving for personal aggrandisement and wealth accumulation.

Dear Editor, On Thursday, June 3, 2010 the eyes of the world were focused on Guyana, and our parliamentarians had an opportunity to demonstrate that they could rise above partisan politics and prove that under the laws there can be equal rights and justice for all.

Dear Editor, It is no secret Freddie Kissoon is one of the government’s fiercest critics and trains most of his public critiques on the administration.

Dear Editor, The heavily touted ‘war on bad manners’ on which resources were expended to promote same by our government and NGOs is being won by the bad manners, which have knocked out all contenders and are strutting cockily around the ring.

Dear Editor, The level of lawlessness which is invading the national psyche is dangerous to the welfare of our citizens, and those who hold the reins of power will have to answer to the citizens at some time in the future; there is always an end to the longest rope.

As cricket is the premier sport of the land it follows that there are thousands of nominal stakeholders in the business of the Guyana Cricket Board by virtue of their patronage of, and abiding interest in its offerings.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News is the ultimate expression of urban-cosmopolitan and bourgeois politics.

Dear Editor, When the two young police recruits, Paul Slowe and Winston Felix, at their swearing in ceremony pledged to “discharge the duties of their office without favour or affection, malice or ill-will,” theirs was not a ritualistic repetition of the words in that oath.

Dear Editor, I welcome the introduction of another polling body (Barbados-based Caribbean Development Research Services Inc or CADRES) to Guyana’s politics, because I had truly become fed up, to the point of distrustful, of anything Mr Vishnu Bisram’s NACTA surveys and polls revealed about Guyana.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News on Wednesday June 2, 2010, under the caption ‘Friends brutalised, dumped in lockups.’

If there were a crime of cultural malfeasance on the statute books, then Minister Leslie Ramsammy would surely have been charged with it by now, along, perhaps, with Dr Bheri Ramsarran as an accessory.

Dear Editor, It was with deep consternation that I read in the June 2 edition of SN, Water Minister Irfaan Ali’s statement, “that despite the discovery of dead fish, the water in the Lamaha Canal is safe.”

Dear Editor, I was at the headquarters of the United National Congress (UNC) in Couva, Trinidad and Tobago (TT) on election night as vote-counts arrived, making its leader, Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the new prime minister.

Dear Editor, The fiasco of the Amaila project keeps going down that infamous creek without a paddle with every utterance from this government.

Dear Editor, Our country Guyana is one of great and majestic beauty.

Dear Editor, I believe that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), as a party and as the PPP/Civic government, is sincere in its desire to forge genuine links and work with the African Guyanese sector of the  society.

Dear Editor, I can empathise with my colleague Mr Rafiq Khan who wrote so emphatically about the abolition of the ceremonial opening of the Criminal Assizes (‘The ceremonial opening of the Criminal Assizes… should be abolished’ SN, June 3).

Nearly 50 days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caught fire and sank, it is becoming clear that the scale of the crisis was underestimated from the beginning.