Opinion

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to respond to reports of “Repeated disruption of …water supply” at the Diamond Isolation Unit, as is being reported by the Stabroek News in a May 17 article entitled “COVID-19 patients fear poor conditions at Diamond Isolation Unit delaying recovery” and a May 25 article entitled “Doctors attempt to kick down door at Diamond Isolation Facility”.

Trinidad and Tobago’s decision to begin a phased re-opening of parts of the country’s business sector following a period of ‘lockdown’ and outcomes which appear to suggest that significantly restricting the movement of people for a period may have impacted positively on the country’s status insofar as contracting of the Coronavirus and better still, fatalities deriving therefrom, should be noted in Guyana. 

Dear Editor, David Granger’s “Ministry of the Presidency” has demanded of me and the media that has published my letter of May 22nd,  an apology for what they claim are “several untruths and numerous inaccuracies” I wrongly believed, from a picture showing Claudette Singh sitting at Granger’s side that was carried in the same report of his Press Conference, that Ms.

Dear Editor, The COVID-19 pandemic and life, in general, has been challenging recently for many of us.

Dear Editor, Having observed the varying perspectives put forward by the political parties as to what the National Recount exercise entails the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has the responsibility to ensure the society is knowledgeable of events as they unfold. The

Dear Editor, Now that we are recounting the ballots and will soon be swearing in a President; let’s discuss our future as a part of our ‘Dream Guyana Campaign’.

Dear Editor,  The invitation to present evidence in keeping with ‘who asserts must prove’ has to be time bound.

Dear Editor, Attention is directed to a news article titled, `Coalition provides proof of dead person voting,’ in the Chronicle (5/20).

As the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections crawls along it must not be forgotten that what should have been an orderly process with a result within two or three days was obscenely overturned by the Returning Officer for District Four, Clairmont Mingo when he introduced numbers from a spreadsheet which were pure fiction.

Dear Editor,  As the APNU+AFC folks are busy digging around in graveyards looking for jumbies, David Hinds is feeding flies to the faithful, trying to save face.

Dear Editor,                                                        Allow us, once more, to discuss and place COVID-19 into perspective, as it relates to the local reality in Guyana, as we learn from press reports and other sources.

Dear Editor, Recent revelations regarding the Ministry of Education’s plan to stage the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) in about two months, have caused concern among parents and teachers.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission (GWCMC) recently posted online the closed seasons for wildlife in Guyana.

Dear Editor, While I expected a response from the PPP/C to President David Granger’s interview on Mark Benschop Radio, moreso his expressed interest in a new form of governance, I must confess that the response came earlier than I anticipated.

Dear Editor, With atypical speed, GECOM Chair Claudette Singh distanced herself from the unfortunate statement by (GECOM) Commissioner Sase Gunraj that purported to convey the Chairman’s views on the recurrent, outlandish claims by the APNU+AFC and its spokespersons such as Aubrey Norton and James Bond.

The south of Guyana is particularly vulnerable to the spread of the coronavirus, not just because of the regular traffic from Georgetown, but also because it is wide open to traffic from Brazil.

Dear Editor, While all Guyana watched twenty-year-old, Second Lieutenant (2Lt) Desmond Roberts of the Guyana Defence Force raise the Golden Arrow Head at the historic flag raising ceremony ushering in Guyana’s Independence fifty-four years ago on May 26, 1966, at the National Park in Georgetown, Guyana, not many people knew that twenty-year-old, Officer Cadet Fairbairn Liverpool, of the Guyana Defence Force had a similar distinction of carrying the Golden Arrow Head down the Aisle at Westminster Abbey and present it from the altar to the diaspora in London, England to a fanfare of trumpets on the same day.