Opinion

On Sunday last, this newspaper’s “Women’s Chronicles” column saw women addressing their disappointment at the hoops they were being made to jump through to visit non-Covid-19 patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Dear Editor, On July 22, 2020, Stabroek News carried a letter titled `State of economy is likely to worsen more than casually projected’, in which the author conjures Guyana’s economy being in distress at the end of the first quarter, a situation he blames on alleged poor management and policy.

Dear Editor, The passing of Rt Hon Owen Seymour Arthur, former Prime Minister of Barbados will be marked with great sadness by his beloved Barbados, the CARICOM and Greater Caribbean Region, the Commonwealth, United Nations and many of the Global South.

Dear Editor, Please accept my profound gratitude for being able to absorb the two articles published in the Sunday Stabroek of 26 July.

In a recent interview with Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace, American President Donald Trump hinted that he might not accept a loss in the upcoming November elections as he will claim that it was rigged.

Dear Editor, Owen Arthur and I had been talking almost every day over the last few weeks, until he was admitted to hospital. 

Dear Editor, Help & Shelter condemns in the strongest possible terms the 26 July arson attack on the Guyana Human Rights Association building – the latest in the spate of such attacks during the last few weeks that must be attributed to the current tense political situation.

Dear Editor, I am happy to have served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Foreign Trade and Inter-national Cooperation during the three terms of Owen Arthur of Barbados.

Dear Editor, Citizens Action for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE) of Jamaica wishes to join those who have expressed alarm at the failure of the incumbent ruling party in Guyana and its supporters to accept the result of the recount of the votes in the general and regional elections in Guyana and to allow the process for the appointment and installation of a new President and Government in Guyana to be implemented in accordance with the Constitution of Guyana. 

Dear Editor, US congressman John Lewis, the civil rights leader passed away on July 17, 2020.

Dear Editor, Last week, in reply to a hypothetical question posed to me on the popular Mark Benschop programme, ‘Straight Up,’ I did use the words set ‘aside the Constitution and Laws.’

Dear Editor, I do not usually bother to read anything that Moses Nagamootoo writes; I do not think anybody does.

Dear Editor, Congratulations on your editorial in yesterday’s  publication. In your publication of July 23rd.

Dear Editor, First it was a slip of the pen when the untruth was discovered, now realising the gravity of his comments it is a slip of the tongue.

Global discourse on the subject of food security has been accentuated by the advent of COVID-19 and what the world’s foremost international organizations say are the possible implications of the effects of the virus for both hunger and malnutrition across the world in the future.

Dear Editor, Mr Granger should be asked to give public clarification to this.

Dear Editor, The recent ruling of the Chief Justice in Misenga Jones versus the Guyana Elections Commission et al, despite the matter now being taken up at the Appeals Court, signals that legal maneuvering may finally be close to the end.