Opinion

Dear Editor, This missive is directed at those with influence in and out of Guyana.

Dear Editor, On July 29, Stabroek News published a letter titled `Economy not on verge of collapse, outlook is for real economic growth in excess of 40 percent’ by Minister of Finance Winston Jordan.

Dear Editor, Today all Guyanese are expected to join hands as we celebrate African Emancipation Day.

Dear Editor, I am a retired Guyanese-Canadian living in Canada. I left Guyana, regrettably, with my wife and daughter in 1980 after having graduated as a Fitter Machinist from the Bookers Sugar Estates Apprentice Training Centre in Port Mourant, in 1974, and having worked at the Rose Hall Sugar Estate in Canje, Berbice, from 1974 to 1980.

Dear Editor, As I am typing this email to you, mosquitos are sucking me alive and I’m sweating profusely.

Dear Editor,  The constant flip-flopping on his position on election declarations makes it impossible to believe much less accept yet again the latest backward somersault in this regard. 

Representative John Lewis of Georgia, an icon of the American Civil Rights movement, received a fitting send-off this week despite the political and economic upheaval in the United States.

Dear Editor, De facto Finance Minister Winston Jordan in an epistle which appeared in the July 29, Stabroek News sought to assuage concerns about the economy and obviously defend his stewardship as Minister.

Dear Editor, I am grateful for the informative piece written by my professional colleague Mr.

Former Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur who died on Monday has been commemorated in tributes from all over the region. 

Dear Editor, This July month’s experiences of extended blackouts (the absence of ‘power and light’) raise the speculation of how some of our village agencies would respond to the ‘real’ demands of a new ‘virtual’ technological environment.

Dear Editor, At my age and experience of understanding all the means that political/electoral losers will employ to retain power, it becomes more personally sickening to hear refrains about independence and sovereignty of our State.

Dear Editor, The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our way of life in many ways.

Dear Editor, The vile and baseless attacks on the Barbadian Prime Minister and former CARICOM Chair, Mia Mottley; Chairperson of the GECOM, retired Justice Madam Claudette Singh; Chief Justice Madam Roxane George; Justice Madam Priya Sewnarine-Beharry; and attorney at law Mrs.

Dear Editors, On a recent engagement with the Child Care and Protection Agency, Dr.

Dear Editor, The passing of former Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, is a great loss to Carib-bean intellectual thought, practice and leadership. 

Dear Editor, The ghosts of past generations of Parliamentarians have been waiting, some more patiently than others, to help to arrange accommodation for the next entry of their colleagues in what for the latter would be a new dispensation.