Opinion

Dear Editor, Recently, the Government of Guyana, through some of its officials, announced its intention to appoint an International Commission of Inquiry “to get to the bottom” of the tragic incidents occurring in Berbice between September 6 and September 10, 2020.

Dear Editor, In a recent letter (`SVN registered 96.60% overall pass rate at CXC,’ SN 9/29/20) we highlighted the continued amazing academic success of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) school at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara. 

Dear Editor, Vincent Alexander has chided President Irfaan Ali for insisting he will not speak to Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon until the latter quits referring to him as “illegitimate”.

Dear Editor,  “O, what a tangled web we weave…” The PPP/C, upon assuming office, has been convincingly trying to undo many of the iniquities of the former APNU+AFC, mostly revealing the level and scope of corruption, as well as the shortfalls in terms of economic development.

At his press conference on Friday, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo shut the door comprehensively on the use of the approval of the Payara licence as a means of leverage to improve the scandalous Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) concluded by the APNU+AFC government in 2016 with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary EEPGL and its partners Hess and CNOOC.

Dear Editor, Tomorrow, Tuesday October 6th, 2020 marks the 40th Anniversary since the imposition of the 1980 Constitution under the Government of the late President Linden Forbes Burnham.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to the article `Jordan flatly rejected better allowances for healthcare workers – Minister Parag,’ which was published in Guyana Chronicle, October 3, 2020.

Dear Editor, The abhorrent and callous treatment of Guyanese living on government-owned land in Success and surrounding areas on the East Coast of Demerara is unnecessary and unwarranted.

Dear Editor, In general, most people do not frequently witness cruelty to animals or take action when they do see it.

Dear Editor, The Essential Services Act provides for an Arbitration Tribunal for the settlement of disputes in Essential Services.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article titled, `Licence gives Exxon wiggle room for Payara flaring’ (SN October 2). 

We live next door to a criminalised state.  The formal structures which normally sustain governmental operations in any nation have been subverted in Venezuela by entrenched corruption. 

Dear Editor, We at Help & Shelter are concerned about the increasing levels of COVID-19 cases in all regions of Guyana and the mounting number of deaths attributed to the virus.

Dear Editor, Whilst I agree wholeheartedly with the thrust and spirit of Lincoln Lewis’ letter of 2 October 2020, that the President and Opposition Leader must start moving our nation forward in the direction of ‘inclusionary democracy’, I vehemently disagree with his exhortation that President Ali seriously rethink the stated position that he will not engage with the Leader of the Opposition unless the latter recognizes the PPP/Civic as “legitimately elected”.

Dear Editor, A young man met me this week. He had returned from the gold mining areas after what he believed to be his illness as a result of malaria.

Dear Editor, During a recent browse of You Tube I came across Mandela`s speech at DeKlerk`s 70th birth anniversary, in 2006.

Dear Editor, One of the tragic consequences of having Queen Elizabeth II as Barbados’ Head of State is that it has caused many Barbadians to have a doubt – lodged somewhere at the back of their minds – as to whether Barbados is, in truth and in fact, an independent nation.