Opinion

Dear Editor, As a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana (1992-2001) I cannot help but interpret the recent ‘diplomatic shake-up’ at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as anything other than a breakdown in policy formulation and coordination between the Ministry of the Presidency and the Foreign Ministry.

Dear Editor, ‘Desi’ snubbed Desai named.  Never heard of him. Yours faithfully, Shamshun Mohamed

Dear Editor, With the launch of the People’s Republic Party, I am happy to see yet another party in the election mix as I believe that a healthy democracy is one in which persons should have many options to choose from.

Dear Editor, In light of recent confrontations involving police and civilians, the question many Guyanese are asking is whether a civilian should be allowed to video record for their own safety.

Last month some serious flaws in what might loosely be termed the disciplinary aspects of the school system were exposed.

Dear Editor, The nightmarish traffic congestion experienced during peak hours on the East Bank, Demerara Harbour Bridge, and West Bank Demerara has now joined the long list of daily woes such as power outages, high taxes, unemployment, and crime in beautiful Guyana.

Dear Editor, If GTT, GPL and GWI can offer plausible explanations as to why the services they provide are so lousy and why their bills do not reflect their disgraceful deficiency in service, I will alter my posture that Guyanese are in a sorry state of induced submission.

Dear Editor, ‘Children fight’ or words to that effect – in the face of a reported violent incident between students in one school, but which by no means is singular. 

Dear Editor, Alarm bells began to ring when Michael Ten-Pow, Guyana’s Ambassador to the UN voted against the United States of America’s resolution to amend the Rights of the Child Convention, in so doing Ten-Pow was acting conversely to Guyana’s existing laws on this issue and also inimical to Guyana’s geopolitical interests (18.11.2019).

Dear Editor, It is with a sinking heart that I respond to a letter under the caption `The Belle Vue Farmers’ Story’ purportedly under the hand of Shyam Balkarran and published in the Kaieteur News of November 23, 2019.

Dear Editor, The December 04, Stabroek News in an article concerning the protest actions by sugar workers on December 03 referred to a conversation with an official of the sugar company.

Dear Editor, On Monday, Apache Corporation’s share price plummeted after the company released a “vague” update on the results of its exploration well in Block 58 offshore Suriname.

Dear Editor, The information provided in this document resulted from research originally done by Ras Moses and Jonathan Adams of the Guyana Reparations Committee.

Dear Editor, While the technical and strategizing administrators continue to agonize on crafting workable solutions to the sustainability of the sugar industry, the mentors and strategists of the sugar union leadership are contriving to rub salt in the extant economic and financial wounds of the industry.

Dear Editor, A recent article published on December 3rd in the Washington Post by Francisco Toro titled `What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families?

Earlier this week, it was reported that four men were freed of rape charges, three of whom were accused of raping children, because their accusers could not be located.

Dear Editor, The admission by Minister Raphael Trotman in a Kaieteur Radio interview that Guyana should have got a “way better deal” than the one he negotiated with Exxon for the lucrative Stabroek Block is cold comfort as we come to realise that the Granger Administration has caused Guyana to lose tens of billions of United States Dollars through incompetence.