Opinion

Dear Editor, When it comes to the financial management of our country, we must avoid the past posture of taking on excessive debt and then asking for debt forgiveness.

Dear Editor, It was with great pleasure that I recently saw a report and pictures in the print media in relation to the historic signing of the Open Skies – Air Services  Agreement between Guyana and Suriname.

Dear Editor, The compelling letter by Maria Rodrigues, SN Dec 13/2020 `Please protect our animals from the scourge of firecrackers,’ underlines the worst danger of human cruelty to animals, in particular, dogs.

Dear Editor, Hospitals across the country are filling up again, not specifically with the demographic group disproportionately slammed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Dear Editor, This COVID-19 pandemic is making people do all kinds of strange things, playing many tricks. 

It had been hoped that former President Granger would have taken up the invitation by President Ali to meet with him and the three former PPP/C Presidents, Messrs Hinds, Jagdeo and Ramotar.

Dear Editor, The law is clear — as long as you come out in public, you must have a mask on.

Dear Editor, Coalition supporters are seemingly at ease that former President David Granger has declined the invitation from President Irfaan Ali.  Social

Dear Editor, Ban those firecrackers for Christmas!!!  It is not a fun thing; it is a deadly and dangerous thing; it is not clean and safe fun. 

Dear Editor, I read with interest that David Granger has declined to meet President Irfaan Ali and the former Presidents setting preconditions (Granger declines invitation to meeting of former Presidents – until public concerns placed on agenda, SN online, 11th December 2020).

Dear Editor,  It is not surprising the presidential confab invitation was declined. 

Dear Editor, It is either we are a country of laws or we are not!

In yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News, Raphael Trotman’s name was inadvertently omitted as the author of the letter entitled `We must all strongly press for formal dialogue between main political stakeholders’.

Dear Editor, A couple of Saturdays ago, a small group of intrepid Guyanese took the bit between their teeth and came together to put out publicly what many have called for often, with varying degrees of sincerity. 

Guyana is supposed to be a parliamentary democracy.  Since the introduction of a presidential system in 1980, however, power has become concentrated in the hands of the head of state, and every president from Burnham onwards has made no moves to mitigate that.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MHSSS) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Guyana should be commended for launching the toll-free 914 emergency hotline number for domestic and sexual abuse. 

Dear Editor, Recently, the AFC forcefully brought attention to the dire consequences of the political ethnicisation campaign that the Irfaan Ali-led administration has embarked on since August.