Opinion

Dear Editor, Recently, my colleagues and I noticed that there have been some articles about Hong Kong national security legislation in Guyana’s newspapers and Face-book.

Dear Editor, It is still dawn and dark on Tuesday, June 16, as I take to keyboard and screen to reach my fellow citizens, Guyanese brothers and sisters all. 

Dear Editor, On June 13th in Guyana and around the world the assassination of Walter Rodney is commemorated.

Dear Editor, I write to add my voice to the many that have expressed dismay and concern about our Ministry of Education’s incomprehensible plan to have our young Grade 6 students return to school before sitting the National Grade Six Assessment examination in the midst of one of the most deadly pandemics of all time.

Dear Editor, As an octogenarian with more physical indispositions, including poor vision, with which I can cope, it is not feasible for me to go ‘on line’.

It was during the late 1980s, in an interview on one of the BBC Radio international current affairs programmes that the former USA Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whilst dissecting some developing international crisis, declared, “… that power was the ultimate aphrodisiac…”       What is it about power that drives persons to pursue it with total reckless abandon?

Dear Editor, It seems to me that the most hackneyed cliché to come out of the post “No Confidence Motion” period is the phrase “uncharted waters”.

Dear Editor, Now that CARICOM or the most “appropriate interlocutor” of the elections has issued its report, upholding the integrity of the will of the electorate as exercised in the free and fair elections held on March 2, 2020, it is imperative for the GECOM Chair to lawfully declare the obvious winner without further haste.

Dear Editor, We are on the eve of a momentous declaration regarding the “mother of all elections”, the declaration of the “results” of the March 2020 elections.

Dear Editor, Basil Williams’ misconception of the law is legendary. It is manifest in his latest missive published in the Stabroek News on the 14th day of June 2020, under the caption “In light of evidence before it GECOM ought not to request final report from CEO”.

Dear Editor, As a youth I heard frequently from many adults that “politics is a dirty game.”

Dear Editor, Fifteen weeks following the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections, it seems that the process is coming to a close.

Last Wednesday, with a bluntness that some may regard as diplomatically indelicate, Common-wealth Secretary General, Baroness Patricia Scotland asserted that in the midst of the various COVID-19 emergencies that have arisen here in the Caribbean, we can expect the occurrence of instances of unwholesome opportunism amongst those in our midst whose sensitivities are finely tuned to recognize and extract exploitative advantage from circumstances of  challenge and tragedy. 

Dear Editor, I am vain enough to think that GECOM was convinced by my argument that a particular (statistical)  standard of proof would be required for the results of the recount to have been put aside because of “anomalies and discrepancies”, in favour of some other results for the final declaration of the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections.

Dear Editor, If the Chair of GECOM, Justice Claudette Singh, accepts the uninvited and ultra vires opinion of the CEO of GECOM, Keith Lowenfield, that the results of the recount are not credible and that by his account, only 185,000 of the 460,000 votes case are credible, Ms.

Dear Editor, I recognize a work of sublime art. I look upon it as the handiwork of the mysteries of man’s mind, magical minds many times resplendent in the majesty of its mesmerizing and incomprehensible madness.

Dear Editor, I am directing this plea to President David Granger.

Dear Editor, I am a single parent of three children. My eldest boy is taking the NGSA examination.