Opinion

Yesterday we carried a Reuters report about more than half of Malta’s traffic police being arrested on Tuesday for suspected fraud. 

Dear Editor, Your editorial: `Environmental bona fides and development aspirations’ (Stabroek News of Tuesday 11th February, 2020) captured two key elements of the environmental challenge we face as a country: lack of “… culture of respect for and serious adherence to environmental laws…” The article as a whole gave a favourable impression of the candour of its author.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Agriculture wishes to point out that the article featured in the Tuesday 11th 2020 edition of the Stabroek News titled `Mahaicony farmers face losses again from spring tides’ is misleading to the general public.

Dear Editor, “It’s going to be a change. No other country in the history of Latin America will see such a change of the magnitude that Guyana will see and in per capita terms Guyana will become the country in the world that will produce the most barrels per capita than any place else in the world…more than Kuwait.

Dear Editor, Provided there are no administrative hiccups nor legal snafus along the way, the Guyanese electorate is heading inexorably to the polls on March 2, 2020.

On Sunday last, the American Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences, better known as the Academy Awards or the Oscars, held its 92nd ceremony to recognise excellence in those fields.

Dear Editor, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan told a London audience on Sunday  that PPP/C Presidential candidate Irfaan Ali was afraid of public and journalistic scrutiny and should start to lead an ‘examined life’.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to comment on your article in yesterday’s SN: `Guyana’s first million barrels of oil is closer – still no word on price.’

Dear Editor, Even the election campaign could not hide the buzz of activities that came with the announcement of several acres of communal lands to a fisherman turn farmer at No.

Dear Editor, In some ways public education in Guyana is in the Emergency Room, and in need urgent need of being seen.

Dear Editor, We all mourn the death of national cycling great, Jude Bentley, who died on February 8, 2020 following a tragic road accident.

Dear Editor, I have reviewed the OpenOil model along with other available comparative analyses and am convinced that Guyana’s deal takes us down a similar path as the UK’s oil revenue history.

Dear Editor, In a SN article of February 8, it was reported that residents of the island of Leguan have observed that the contractor for the ferry jetty was using barnacle-infested planks on the upgraded jetty connecting the stelling.

Dear Editor, It is indeed fitting and very deserving the conferral of the Commonwealth Points of Light Award to leading HIV/AIDS advocate,  Ms Desiree Edghill.

Dear Editor,  Whether we use the Creation as our guide or Darwin’s Theory of Evolution as a guide we will all have a common ancestor.

Last week Monday, Cricket West Indies’ selection panel released the names of the 15-member squad for the upcoming One-Day International (ODI) Series in Sri Lanka.