Opinion

Sign on Hoyte residence misleading

Dear Editor, On the occasion of the death anniversary of former President Desmond Hoyte my friend Francis Quamina Farrier posted a photo of the Hoyte’s residence on North Road, Bourda which is now a museum dedicated to the life and memory of the late President.

Recognition of Negro League Baseball

Last Wednesday, Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that seven Negro Baseball Leagues which functioned between 1920 and 1948 will be officially accorded with Major League status and the records of those seasons incorporated into the statistical data of MLB.

It does not appear that President is serious about fulfilling promises delivered in August

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.  

Nothing of substance was handed by World Court to Venezuela

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.

Religions should come together and train corruption hunters to speak out against all corrupt practices

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.

Rebooting of CHPA underway

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. 

It’s karma

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.

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