Opinion

Dear Editor, A serious weakness of leaders everywhere is their failure to benefit from lessons of the past and perhaps more troubling is a tendency to take citizens on every side of the divide for granted, failing to recognize that in the case of Guyana, half of the population views with some skepticism statements coming from Government leaders, even before Independence.  

Dear Editor, I refer to the misreading of the World Court decision by Dr.

Dear Editor, It is now an open secret that Guyana is on the cusp of enormous development and progress.

Dear Editor, Not too long after the World Court ruled on Guyana’s application concerning the ‘legal validity and binding effect of the award regarding the boundary between the colony of British Guiana and the United States of Venezuela of October 3, 1899’ the press published two rather interesting interpretations regarding the Court’s decision.

Dear Editor, The comments below the online version of my last letter printed in Stabroek News on December 17 (under the caption `Assurances by Minister Edghill over airport  project’) have come to my attention and I thankfully respond to them.

Dear Editor, Over the next 25 years as an oil-producing country, most of us do not want Guyana to become a country where corrupt politicians and officials provide unfair advantages for their families (nepotism), friends and business associates (cronyism) at the economic expense of the overwhelming majority of the population who are farmers, workers, the unemployed, the under-employed, the dispossessed, the marginalized, the poor and the hungry.

Dear Editor, While the Private Sector Commission (PSC) is pointing a finger at GECOM, the public’s hands are pointing toward the PSC as its own independence and credibility are in the balance.

Dear Editor, “Guyana is a diverse nation; 39.8% of the population is of Indian origin (see Indo-Guyanese), 30% African (see Afro-Guyanese), 19.9% multiracial (almost all part African, including Dougla, Creole-Mulatto, Zambo-Maroon, and Pardo), 10.5% Amerindian and 0.5% other, mostly Chinese, Europeans (most notably Portuguese)”: Wikipedia. 

Dear Editor, In a recent letter to the Editor re the Walrond-Allicock matter, I focused on the need for us, as a nation, to urgently address the question of a national ethos, as a matter of importance.

Dear Editor, Two discredited top brass of the moribund AFC took to the airwaves right after the March 2nd, 2020 elections to spread the most ridiculous fake news that they had found some Russians in Guyana who were going to hack our manual paper and pencil elections.

Last week’s brief and seemingly innocuous media release issued jointly by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) was not as run-of-the-mill as it might have seemed.

Dear Editor, I write in support of Shaundell Shipley’s letter in SN, December 16, 2020 entitled, `We need to challenge cultural norms when it comes to gender inequalities’ especially her call, not heard often enough, for the inclusion of boys and men “who suffer too, sometimes equally” from gender-based violence.

Dear Editor, In the period of observing the 16 days of activism, many civil society organizations and government agencies engaged in public education activities to raise awareness of gender-based violence and child abuse.

Dear Editor, On Thursday 17th Dec at about 7:30 pm I drove into the Rubis gas station on Vlissengen Road to purchase a bottle of cooking gas.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s labour laws provide for summary dismissal from employment by the employer for good and sufficient cause relating to an employee’s conduct and performance on the job.

On Thursday, on the margins of the conferral of silk on three attorneys at State House, President Ali launched an attack on the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC).

Dear Editor, We noted with delight your article of December 16 headlined `Constitutional, electoral reforms should be ‘people-driven’ – President, former Presidents say.’

Dear Editor, The non-cooperation of the Guyana Police Force with the internationally renowned Argentinian expert, brought by the Guyana Human Rights Association, to assist in the inquiry of the murders of Joel and Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh must be of concern to every Guyanese.