Opinion

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the Guyana Chronicle article `Hurricane delays Roger Khan’s return’ (GC 9/7) which reported that according to Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan, Hurricane Dorian delayed Roger Khan’s return home on Thursday September 5, 2019.

Dear Editor, While Guyanese are battling to force an errant Government to comply with crystal clear language of their Constitution, their supreme law; to obey Orders emanating from the highest Court in their judicial hierarchical structure; and, to extract from its elections body, a clear signal that it is prepared to carry out its fundamental constitutional duty to hold elections that are long lawfully overdue, the world is witnessing, at the other end of the democratic spectrum, the citizens of one of the oldest democracy on earth, the United Kingdom, being allowed to freely exercise their rights and freedoms and in so doing, stretching the institutions of democracy of that nation to its elastic limits.

Dear Editor, We are in the silly season once again. I am not necessarily referring to our politicians but specifically to our national system of governance.

Last Friday’s meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) saw the secretariat headed by the Chief Election Officer proposing a timeframe of March next year as the earliest date for general elections which should have already been completed by March 21st of this year.

Dear Editor, The GAWU cannot fail to address the several contentions raised by Mr Lincoln Lewis in his letter that appeared in the September 06 edition of Stabroek News (`It was the Jagdeo gov’t that initiated the closure of Diamond, LBI sugar fields’) as he sought to offer a response to our letter which appeared in several sections of the media on September 05, 2019.

Dear Editor, Guyana is responsible for paying the interest on the oil companies’ loans.

Dear Editor, I would like to add my voice to the many complaints about the NIS.

Dear Editor, The word from the media is that the embattled Crime Chief has been cleared of misconduct allegations.

Dear Editor, I am on record advising Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo to call for an end of the parliamentary recess.

Dear Editor, It is very unfortunate that a date for the general election hasn’t been called yet.

Dear Editor, The insistence of the caretaker coalition government for the data from the un-scrutinised house-to-house registration to be merged with the National Register of Registrants Database (NRRD) – which has been updated through several cycles of continuous registration and used as the basis for the last several elections, including the 2015 General and Regional Elections that led to the APNU+AFC coalition taking office – must be rejected as a perpetuation of delay tactics.

Dear Editor, As I watched the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Dorian on The Bahamas, I could not help but reflect on how fortunate we are in this part of the world.

Dear Editor, I am happy that Aubrey Heath-Reteymer has broken his silence and confirmed that indeed a meeting was held at the Critchlow Labour College on the evening of August 29th, 2019, among Citizenship Minister Winston Felix, himself, and a group of about 60 foreigners from the African continent and Haiti.

There can be few people whose return to this country generates as much public interest as that of Roger Khan. 

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter written by Robin Singh and published in Stabroek News, September 04, 2019 under the caption, `Guyanese still without comfort of acceptable Sovereign Wealth Fund’. 

Dear Editor, The financial oligarchy of the United States of America has, throughout history, used measures to economically and financially stifle nation-states and, consequently, their populations.

The vicissitudes of British democracy have suddenly become more entertaining than the Ashes.

Dear Editor, All Guyanese capable of some level of thought should be asking themselves whether we are the most naive and gullible people in the world.