Opinion

Dear Editor, I ask everybody in the media and this society if Minister Khemraj Ramjattan can do his job to uphold law and order, what about Minister Amna Ally, the senior Minister of Social Protection, and Minister Keith Scott, who is the political head of the Department of Labour?

Dear Editor, I have been following the story on the Chateau Margot Chimney and while I am away on study leave, I would like to unofficially inform that the Chateau Margot Chimney  is  one of the areas identified in GuySuCo’s Cultural Heritage (Sugar) Tourism (CHST) programme for development as a Heritage Park.

Dear Editor, The sound of a siren on the Mayor’s vehicle is now a constant feature in the city.

Dear Editor, The abuse of state resources for political activity continues in Region #5 I wish to draw to the Auditor General of Guyana’s attention that on February 2, 2020 an enclosed truck, plate number GWW 4353 that belongs to the Regional Democratic Council Region #5 Health Department was transporting alcohol and other items for a PNCR fund raising event in Paradise Village, West Coast Berbice.

On July 14th, 1789, the first day of the French Revolution, Louis XVI’s diary entry was the single word: “rien” because he had shot nothing in his daily hunt.

Dear Editor, Elders of Queenstown and Bel Air Park tremble with fear as February 23, 2020 approaches, because every year, the local government, police, and organizers of Mashramani allow big companies to set up massive speakers, more than one storey high, in their neighbourhood, less than 20 feet from the nearest homes — speakers that blast forth excessively loud music for up to 20 hours, causing the elders’ chests to vibrate dangerously, leaving them deaf and discombobulated for days, rocking their old wooden homes like a level 4 earthquake, knocking pictures off walls and ornament off of tables and shelves, and creating a physical stress that medical experts have proven leads to strokes and infarctions (heart attacks).

Dear Editor, Permit me the space to vent our (the students’) frustration at the fact that, in 2020, we are still complaining about issues that were budding problems some 10 years ago and beyond.

Dear Editor,  I just read an on-line news report quoting President Granger as stating that the Constitution of Guyana gives him the power, under certain conditions, to revoke the citizenship of Guyanese who hold dual citizenship.

Dear Editor,  We came to know and love Kamau Brathwaite as the keeper of the ‘abeng’, the African inspired use of the conch shell to spread manifesto messages among mountain maroons and their fellow forest freedom fighters. 

In early December last year we published a letter from artist Ms Bernadette Persaud who said that a few weeks previously the site of the Chateau Margot chimney had been closed off to the public and that the gates now carried two notices.

Dear Editor, No one can sue you for libel if you publish your opinion that you find plausible and persuasive what Dr.

Dear Editor, “Yet whatever concerns Guyana may have about Venezuela’s border claims, Global Witness believes they do not justify Trotman’s signing of the 2016 Stabroek license on the terms proposed.

Dear Editor, The full Global Witness report has now been published.

Dear Editor, I like Shuman. Unlike the miscreants in the PPP and APNU, this guy comes across as balanced.

Dear Editor, Guyanese are trapped in an unprecedented and appalling Petroleum Agreement with Exxon (Exxon, Hess and Nexen).

Dear Editor, One of the most pressing concerns in our modern time is climate change.

Dear Editor, As the flurry of articles cascade on citizen and country relative to the NGO report on the negatives and failures embedded in the ExxonMobil deal, I hear and read of much passion, more quarrelsome noises, and the usual selective acceptance and rejection of a whole host of surrounding facts.