Opinion

We learnt late last week through a Ministry of Health media release that a COVID-19 Vaccines Task Force had been established in preparation for the rollout of the inoculation campaign against the pandemic.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) extends its best wishes for a new year filled with hope, happiness and peace for everyone. 

Dear Editor, Like a two-headed eborsisk, the Guyana/Venezuela controversy has reared its head once again, this time in a more aggressive and bellicose fashion on the Venezuelan side.

Dear Editor,  Trump and his anarchist supporters have literally and figuratively thrown everything at the American electoral system with the objective of derailing the will of the people and stealing an election. 

Dear Editor, Events of January 6, 2021 in Washington, where a group of marauding thugs invaded Capitol Hill, while in session, and caused significant damage, both to property and national pride in the United States, have been dominating world headlines.

Dear Editor, I wish to state that while I may disagree with the government on many matters pertaining to its governance approach, one matter which I stand in full support of the government on; is the representation and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our 83,000 square miles, 215,000 square kilometres, which includes the counties of Essequibo, Berbice and Demerara.

Dear Editor,  In these trying times of COVID-19 many people do not have anything to do so they are creating problems and arguments with each other. 

Dear Editor,  At long last the government has indicated it will restore the City Hall building.

If it becomes a reality, the proposed gas-to-shore project will be the single largest publicly financed venture in the history of the country.

Dear Editor, I was recently reading the works of Kalidasa and Kabir when it occurred to me that our school system has an opportunity to better reflect the rich diversity of our ancestral cultures.

Dear Editor, I am pleased that Farfan & Mendes Limited and SOVENTIX Caribbean S.R.L

Dear Editor, I note a current public discussion among African Guyanese with two – Messrs Lincoln Lewis and Hamilton Green – asking of another prominent African Guyanese who is former Prime Minister and President Samuel Hinds what he had done to uplift their fellow African Guyanese during his political career.

Dear Editor, I have read with grave concern news reports of the issuance of a decree by the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, with the support of Venezuela’s National Assembly, which seeks to reinforce Venezuela’s baseless claim to Guyana’s Essequibo Region and its attendant maritime space.

Dear Editor, We are in a new normal, a circumstance that calls for a different kind of leadership and cooperation.

Dear Editor, Let me say this clearly. I am not in support of sacking thousands of people and putting them on the breadline.

Dear Editor, Violence when caused by incitement should be traced to the source and the person or persons whose words led to individuals becoming empowered to do actions of harm, should be held accountable.

Dear Editor, I read former President David Granger’s exhaustive and exhausting New Year’s message.

This country would have been naïve to believe that the December 18th ruling of the International Court of Justice last year would not produce a bellicose response from Venezuela.

Dear Editor, The riot that erupted and ran through the Capitol in Washington, District of Columbia, in the United States of America (U.S.A),