Opinion

Are school heads and teachers hobbled by an authority deficit?

Just before the close of schools in December an announcement was made to the effect that a ban was being placed on the customary in-school Christmas ‘bash’ euphemistically referred to as a Christmas Party and that a much less rumbustious event, a sort of ‘social,’ as events of that nature are described, where music would be limited to the singing of Christmas Carols and where social intercourse would be confined to the uniformed teenagers exchanging seasonal pleasantries would be held.

Ineligibility of PM candidate of main parties to become President is most repulsive

Dear Editor, The racialist routine that restricts the Prime Minister from becoming President and preside for the remainder of the government’s term in office on the occurrence of death or resignation of the President; started by the PPP/C and now joined by the PNC-led APNU+AFC Coalition is a retrograde and most repulsive development in the era of unrigged elections in Guyana. 

No ethnic impetus for domestic violence

Dear Editor, With respect to the December 11, 2019 letter in SN `Failure to address the ethnic impetus in domestic abuse will see the scourge continue’, The Caribbean Voice (TCV) categorically and emphatically states that there is no ‘ethnic impetus’ for domestic violence.

What nonsense?

Dear Editor,  The caretaker president at the launch of the coalition elections campaign, in his address on constitutional reform regarding the no-confidence motion, is reported to have said, “That nonsense they tried to do…” Wasn’t it the same ‘nonsense’ the then opposition did in 2014 in bringing a no-confidence motion against the government?

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