Opinion

Dear Editor, Guyanese were privy to the ominous development that occurred over Taiwan last week. 

Dear Editor, I will like to add some anecdotes to Prof Baytoram Ramharack’s “Balram Singh Rai remains the only Guyanese minister who was denied a parliamentary pension” (Feb 6).

Dear Editor, The recent sitting of the Parliament on the 4th of February was very informative, helpful and clear on the macro level as to the intent of the current Administration, and the perspective held by the Opposition.

Old-hand foreign policy watchers must have rubbed their eyes in disbelief when they awoke on Thursday to read that Taiwan was to set up a trade office in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I read with alarm and bewilderment a few days ago that the government has provisioned for a reopening of bars and restaurants at 40% capacity while places of worship are only allowed 25% of their seating capacities.

Dear Editor,                                                                                                          Balram Singh Rai will be 100 years old on February 8.

Dear Editor, For months now students have been anxiously awaiting the publication of the full results of the CSEC and CAPE examinations.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the article titled, “Guyana agrees to Taiwan investment office here – likely to sour relations with China” (SN February 4). 

Dear Editor, There is no plot to remove David Patterson from the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly because the People’s Progressive Civic Government “is afraid of scrutiny of its accounts”, as is being claimed by the APNU+AFC.

Dear Editor, A Surinamese company is coming to Guyana to set up a modern Bakery.

Dear Editor, What is going badly wrong at Shiv Chanderpaul Drive?

Confronted with one of his own legal opinions – one that inconveniently contradicted his current stance – the nineteenth century jurist Baron Bramwell cleverly replied: “The matter does not appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then.”

Dear Editor, It is public knowledge that I have been sick with Covid-19 and recovering in New York.

Dear Editor, I write in response to the letters ‘Bring back the constituency system…’ (2 February 2021 by B.

Dear Editor, I heard a lot of people in the country mutter sotto voce that the oil caused the earthquake, so I decided to float the hypothesis that it did.

Dear Editor, Leaving aside the interpretation of historical facts, I am grateful to Terrence Campbell (SN Letters, February 4th)  for his articulation of the idea of removing the list requirement in the Constitution, which corresponds to my own thinking, as well as his support for a single powerful, independent human rights commission.

Dear Editor, Distinguished Guyanese Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan – and now Mr.

Dear Editor, Irfaan Ali`s presidency, so far, has been identified with a call for unity and the cleansing of GECOM, among other things.