Opinion

Dear Editor, If you do not know where you are going any road will take you there.

Dear Editor, Your lead story yesterday carried a picture of three former presidents and the current president, with this headline: “Constitutional, electoral reforms should be ‘people driven’”.

Dear Editor, I visited the Netherlands earlier this year and was informed that Guyana has no representative there.

Dear Editor, I hereby propose the following for consideration by the people tasked with reforming the Constitution: To avoid the perception that the military is a dominant factor in government, that government is indisputably civilian and definably democratic, and that the military is subjugated to the government, and not the other way round, the number of military personnel should be limited in government.

A week ago, maintaining a now 93-year-old tradition, Time magazine named its 2020 Person of the Year.

Dear Editor, It is a good thing for President Irfaan Ali to invite the former presidents of Guyana to have a conversation on Guyana’s National Development.

Dear Editor, I note with interest what I believe may be the first ‘national conversation’ on race, which is covered under the caption, `Ethnic Relations Commission forum: Hughes advocates data gathering on impact of gov’t policies on each race’ (SN December 15). 

Dear Editor, The High Commissioner of Canada Mrs. Lilian Chatterjee recently requested a meeting with Leader of the Opposition Mr.

Dear Editor, Permit me space to respond to an article appearing in the December 15thedition of the Stabroek News titled, `Guyana’s football to get Pro League come 2021’.

Dear Editor, I read the reports in the three more popular dailies regarding the “National Conversation on Ethnic Relations”.

Monday was the Diamond Anniversary of the famous Tied Test between the West Indies and Australia which took place at the Brisbane Cricket Ground (BCG), in Queensland, Australia.

Dear Editor, Guyana and the rest of the world just concluded 16 days of activism for the elimination of gender-based violence on the 10th December. 

Dear Editor, In the best of times, youth sports (school and grassroots) are an afterthought, often struggling to receive vital support, but thanks to a few understanding and generous community partners – youth sports have time and time again proven their worth as an essential link to the regeneration process of sports development.

Dear Editor, Perhaps inspired – and funded – by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and spearheaded by the Attorney-General’s  Legal Affairs Ministry, the current “conversations” on alternative sentencing and Penal and Law Reform reveal how insensitive the police and justice systems could be towards those found guilty of crime – major and minor violations.

Dear Editor, The National Insurance Scheme was established in Guyana by the relevant Act in 1969.

Dear Editor, Guyana is now in the hands of a new government and there is much work to be done with the aim of bringing relief to the people in every aspect of infrastructure works. 

Over a period of less than two months, public pronouncements by heads of key regional development support organizations including Head of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr.