Opinion

“A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue,” wrote the poet W.H.

Dear Editor,  The critical question is whether GECOM can rely on data extrapolated from the ballot boxes where the statutory documents are missing altogether or in part?

Dear Editor, Given the serious health risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the level of importance placed on the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), the Ministry of Education (MoE) should have taken the proposals of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) more seriously.

Dear Editor, The COVID-19 pandemic may accomplish the unintended consequence of revolutionizing the Guyana education system and shattering decades of entrenched educational inequalities resulting in a persistent poverty of design in our “chalk and talk” education system.

Dear Editor, Opinions vented after Guyana’s March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections by columnists Dr.

Dear Editor, The very stark Stabroek News Editor-in-Chief’s notes to letters in the past few weeks has disappointed me.

Dear Editor, Guyana has a major problem of racial divisiveness. The “Mother of All Elections” may have been perceived and contested as a battle for racial dominance over a country flowing with potential.

Dear Editor, An arranged marriage is different from a forced marriage.

Dear Editor, This year we celebrate our 50th Republic in such a desolate ambiance.

Dear Editor, Within hours of the announcement of the close of tabulation of votes cast in the March 2 general elections, there arose among us a Seer, who had been a law-giver, attorney-general Mr Nandlall.

Tomorrow will mark forty years since the assassination of Dr Walter Rodney in a car parked outside the Georgetown prison.

Dear Editor, I write in response to your Letter page of the 24th May 2020 captioned: `Sloths, other animals, being traded from Mabaruma in breach of closed season’. 

Dear Editor, It appears that, ceteris paribus, the PPP/C will be back in power, emphasis on the word back since politics in Guyana is all about regurgitating the same old cud on different days.

Dear Editor, The Recount of the ballots for the March 2nd General and Regional Elections, which were held over three months ago, has been finally completed.

Dear Editor, The bank, of which I was a member since its establishment in this country, has just peremptorily advised that my cheques would no longer be honoured if the payee is not also a member.

Dear Editor, General Secretary (GS) of the PPP Bharrat Jagdeo knows there is no result that he has seen so far emanating from the National Recount that can make him rejoice.

Dear Editor, I write in response to the former Prime Minister Mr Samuel A.A.

Dear Editor, In light of the Black Lives Matter protests happening across the world, and the reevaluation, revision, and removal, of statues and other monuments that celebrate and pay homage to political figures who were notorious for advocating for, advancing, and establishing colonialism and all of its offshoots, which include enslavement and racism, I think that it is vital that the people of Guyana are also allowed to be a part of this rising global conversation and this movement that seeks to reshape and refocus elements of national pride, heroes, and the personalities from history that we pay homage to, through the removal of contentious statues and monuments.