Opinion

Dear Editor, Our Minister Manickchand is off and running at full speed in addressing the big issue of when and how to reopen our public schools.

Dear Editor, Senator Kamala Harris. A woman. And black lives do matter.

Dear Editor, I note the sugar union GAWU is calling for reopening of the closed sugar estates. 

Dear Editor, Of recent, we’ve been seeing a lot of deadly accidents with most of them caused by carelessness.

The collective yawn and its accompanying synchronized sigh occurring across the Caribbean last Sunday morning whilst West Indies cricket fans perused their Sunday newspapers was not in response to a review of the recent tour of England, but rather to the announcement that Cricket West Indies (CWI) was now in receipt of the Wehby Report.

Dear Editor, I take this time to wish our new Head of State, President M.I.

Dear Editor, The GAWU was pleased to see President Dr Irfaan Ali spending a few moments, during his inauguration address, to speak about the sugar industry.

Dear Editor, The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) was most heartened to learn of the new PPP/C Government’s decision to offer assistance to households and those who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dear Editor, Amidst the inevitable, understandable deluge of opinions, analyses, advice and projections relevant to our politics and our “new” government, I thank you for allowing me to share the following few relative “digressions” and diversions.

Dear Editor, Well done to President Ali on a cogent inauguration speech.

Dear Editor, Citizens Action for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE) is relieved and pleased that the conflicts relating to the general elections in Guyana have finally been resolved. 

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the new Government, and I wish President Irfaan Ali great success in his tenure.

What had been, up until a few weeks ago, a fairly animated public discourse regarding the likelihood of a restart of the state-run classroom education system now appears to have undergone a lowering of its decibel level.

Dear Editor, The price of gold recently passed the US$2,000 mark per oz and is expected to continue rising even reaching US$3,000 in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis and the global recession.

Dear Editor, I woke up this morning, August 9, 2020, to Rawle Toney`s missive, in which he relates the threat that has been dished-out to him by his child`s mother, a Guyanese of Indian descent.

Dear Editor, During the APNU+AFC administration numerous pensioners were employed or retained in the Public Service on lucrative contracts.

Dear Editor, Former Minister Simona Broomes seems to have an issue with signs.

Dear Editor, I did something that I have not done for over forty years, I took the time to read President Ali’s address, the whole thing.