Opinion

Dear Editor, Mr Dominic Gaskin, executive member of the Alliance for Change (AFC) and former minister of the APNU+AFC coalition government, has distinguished himself by publicly sharing his opinion that Mingo’s declarations were acts of fraud done on behalf of the coalition.

Dear Editor, I read and I hear of electoral developments, and what is clear is that there is no country.

In what must be seen as an act of desperation, Sophia resident Ms Eslyn David filed an application in the Appeal Court on June 18 seeking to prevent Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield from submitting his final report to the Elections Commission.

Dear Editor, The GAWU has learnt that the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has recently taken a decision not to honour claims for sickness or accident benefits made by sugar workers from the beginning of the year.

Dear Editor,  As a Grade Six teacher who has served the children of Guyana for more than twenty years, I am always concerned about the welfare  of children. 

Dear Editor, My use of “contempt” in this correspondence’s context has to do with disrespect, deception, even the ability, the practice to despise.

Dear Editor, It is clear as daylight on a bright sunny day, that David Granger, in power as a de facto President, with the full support of the police and army under his command, if not in absolute control, is most certainly complicit in an obvious and determined decision of APNU+AFC to remain in government regardless of the expressed will of our people in the 2nd March Elections.

Dear Editor, The surprising increase in Covid-19 cases raises concern of an under detection of the virus.

Dear Editor, When President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo along with Caricom and GECOM’s Chair signed the “aide memoire”, the document that stated the terms and conditions of the recount and verification of the votes cast in the ten electoral districts in the country, it was followed by a gazetted order that gives legality to the mandate of the recount process.

Dear Editor, It was the prestigious ‘legitimate interlocutor ‘. Now it seems it too has been banished with others.

Dear Editor, In all the farrago and noise about the fallout from the March 2nd Elections there has been much public debate.

In December 2019 the Philippines’ ‘trial of a decade’ ended with a judge handing down life sentences to members of a powerful political clan for their roles in a 2009 massacre in the southern province of Maguindanao.

Dear Editor, It was not surprising that the Chair of GECOM, Claudette Singh, thought it “fit and proper” to give Mr.

Dear Editor, I read with surprise a social media post alleging that “tons of documents” were removed from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and destroyed.

Dear Editor, A few millennia ago, an ambitious Roman general was given control of the province of Gaul.

Dear Editor, This response is about deficiencies in the CARICOM Observer Report 2020.

Dear Editor, It is Thursday morning as I write, as a nation waits with indrawn breath for the coming of 13:00hrs and whatever lies beyond. 

Dear Editor, Writing on Guyana’s Elections 2020, Associated Press accredited journalist Bert Wilkinson made the bizarre assertion that “Following a recount of some districts, Granger’s party was almost 160,000 votes behind the main opposition People’s Progressive Party”.