Opinion

The One Laptop Per Family project has been revived after having been condemned to oblivion by the previous government. 

Dear Editor, Recently the government announced that it has entered into a deal with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) for additional work at CJIA “to the amount of approximately US$9M at the sole cost of CHEC”, which includes two more passenger boarding bridges, additional commercial space, and completion of outstanding remedial works. 

Dear Editor, Guyanese are not a disciplined people. It is well understood that there had to be a high level of resentment of authority in all post slavery societies – for who would want to work for a family or class of persons that once forced one or one’s parents to work on pain of punishment or even death?

Dear Editor, As the year draws to a close, it is necessary for us to take time out to reflect on our successes.

Dear Editor, On the twenty-ninth day of December in the year two thousand and twenty, as I attended the first virtual graduation ceremony of the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE), a plethora of thoughts inundated my mind.

Today is the last day of 2020. Midnight marks the official end of the year the earth stood still.

Dear Editor, There  are  little  things  –  that  are  really  big  things –  which  help  to  make  Barbados  special  and  give  credence  to  the  oft-repeated  boast  of  its  brilliant  first  female  Prime  Minister,  Mia  Amor  Mottley,  that  “This  is  who  we  are”….

Dear Editor, The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) notes with some concern, attempts on social media by some persons to deliberately misconstrue and to cast aspersions on the act of the Special Remissions granted by the Prison Service for the release of sixty-five former inmates.

Dear Editor, As we continue the debate about Guyana`s ethnic diversity and the ethnic conflict which has afflicted our society, there are those who attribute our problem solely to the politicians and there are those who differ.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the editorial `Sugar news not good’ (SN Dec 28).

Dear Editor,  The Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) since its formation in 1976 has been among the very few autonomous state corporations that has consistently made a profit each year of its operations. 

Dear Editor, Our democratic dispensation troubles me, not because of its neonate fundamentals, but its exposition to the unappreciative artisans who demonstrate their utter unfamiliarly with its quintessential architecture.

Dear Editor, Yesterday as I listened to an interview done at Pfizer with our very own Scientist Vidia (Bobin) Roopchand, it has only now sunk in as to the magnitude of the work this son of the soil has done.

Dear Editor, In just a matter of days the year 2021 will be upon us.

Dear Editor, The dawn of a New Year always brings with it a renewed sense of hope and optimism.

Last Thursday, on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus made a pit stop in Georgetown and dropped off his gift for local, starved football fans; the revival of the Annual Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Holiday Knockout Football Tournament.

Dear Editor, Thank you so much for offering a most inspirational gift in the publication on December 25, 2020, on the history of a champion cricketing son of the sugar industry – Rohan Kanhai, particularly coming after the recent paean to a Port Mourant brother, Joe Solomon, of Australia/West Indies’ ‘Tied Test’ fame.