Opinion

Dear Editor,  Over the decades there has been a tendency in Guyana to push up wages even when productivity is falling.

Oliver Clarke of Jamaica, who died on Saturday, was one of the leading figures of the Caribbean media scene.

Dear Editor, I’m writing on behalf of 18 family members who have been stranded in Aruba waiting for an opportunity to return home.

Dear Editor, President David Granger over the past few days has shifted from his position of general silence and has now engaged the media and appeared on a radio programme.

Dear Editor, In a letter published in both SN and KN on May 20, 2020, authored by David Hinds, he accused the western powers to “have openly chosen a side in the current standoff- they have taken the PPP’s side”.

Dear Editor, I was incredulous after listening to the Benschop interview of Mr.

Dear Editor, Since Mingo’s fiasco at Ashmins building, there have been loud and persistent cries of electoral fraud.

There is an idiom that says, ‘Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes’, it means that you really cannot understand another person’s experience until you have put yourself in their situation.

Dear Editor, The Coalition is shadow boxing in semantics. While its Leader said or inferred the elections were free and fair and “orderly,” this does not mean the elections (the fraudulent acts in District Four aside) lacked credibility.

Dear Editor, The  articles on the Guyana elections that have been published recently in the Jamaican press  are not very helpful. 

Dear Editor After 50 years, can the PPP and the PNC be relied on to solve the constitutional and electoral problems they have created and sustained?

Dear Editor, Donkeys kill more people each year than Great White Sharks; yet humans harbour little fear of the neighbourhood jackass while we enter every ocean with trepidation and for older persons, the theme song to Jaws humming in our heads, a symphony playing ‘ode to irrational fear’. 

Dear Editor, I have differed from much of the commentary and analysis of the current political impasse in Guyana which have tended to confine the issue to a problem electoral democracy.

Dear Editor, As if the global pandemic Covid-19 is not enough to do battle with, Guyanese have to fight tooth and nail to get the Guyana Elections Commission to declare the results of an elections held 77 days ago which in itself is a major failure of the Chairperson and her commissioners.

During the course of last week, Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Ricky Skerritt must have felt that the annual hurricane winds and accompanying rains had arrived two weeks ahead of schedule.

Dear Editor, I am told by informed sources that APNU employed the Crosby Textor political consultancy until they ran out of money to pay them.