Opinion

Dear Editor, The much needed and touted fare structure for Mini Buses and Hire Cars to have in their possession and to be displayed has been agreed on by the Ministry of Business and the Association and it must be  noted this was only after several letters were written to the editors of the major daily newspapers and published in the Letter Columns by yours truly, along with the Police starting to impound the Mini Buses both at Suddie and Anna Regina Police Station, that then and only then did the Association get going.

Dear Editor, The Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Retired Justice Claudette Singh must be commended for doing the right thing, namely to bring an end to the house to house registration which was unilaterally launched by the previous GECOM Chair.

Dear Editor, The C. V. Nunes Primary School has been a paragon of excellence academically and even in athletics.

Dear Editor, The return of lawlessness and other forms of degenerate behaviour at Stabroek Market area is being attributed to supervisory ranks ‘not performing to expectations ‘.

Dear Editor, Further to my observations (letter to SN Editor 28th Aug 2019) on the ICJ role mentioned in Ms Lye’s letter, please permit me, in the interest of accuracy, to correct an error in my reply.

There can be few democratic countries in the world where so much suspicion, scepticism and uncertainty have swirled around an elections body for as many decades as is the case with Gecom.

Dear Editor, In a letter by Andrew Pollard SC published on 28 August in Stabroek News, he expressed considerable dismay with the sentiments of Ralph Ramkarran in his Conversation Tree column on 25 August that the Carib-bean Court of Justice (“the CCJ”) failed Guyana in its decision in the recent no confidence cases.

Dear Editor, At its statutory meeting of 27th August, after listening to deliberations on both sides, decisions were taken on how the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will proceed in fulfilling its mandate to hold General and Regional Elections.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to Christopher Ram in his letter in SN of 28th August, where he calls on “the citizens of Guyana to ensure that Guyana’s democracy does not slip by a single day longer”, moreover “even if it means having to pay costs for our efforts to protect not only the Constitution but democracy.”

Dear Editor, Like everyone else, I heard yesterday of the passing of Peter Kempadoo in England. 

Dear Editor, Contrary to the erroneous impression given by the caption of Ms Lye’s Letter to the Editor in Stabroek News of August 27 `It is time for the ICJ to act’,  the Government of Guyana (GOG) is not awaiting a decision of the ICJ in order to enable Guyana to exploit the resources within its maritime space, its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

Dear Editor, As can be gathered from my public contributions, I have tried for temperateness relative to the jarring clashes involving elections movements. 

Dear Editor, I write with reference to Mr. Andrew Pollard’s letter (SN of August 28th) rebutting Mr.

Dear Editor, The long-awaited decision presented on August. 27 by GECOM Chairman, Justice Claudette Singh, is fraught with a myriad of problems. Christopher

The magnitude of the current fires in the Amazon rainforest, a count of 74,155 as at Tuesday last, has raised global anxieties and this is as it should be.

Dear Editor, It is with considerable dismay that I read Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran’s recent lamentation in the Sunday Stabroek  of 25th August, 2019  `CCJ has failed Guyana,  it’s now up to GECOM Chair – Ramkarran’   and also carried in his blog Conversation Tree Mr.

Dear Editor, In the midst of a highly divided GECOM and the not too disguised threat of “no registration, no elections”, Chairperson Justice Claudette Singh has offered something of a compromise by terminating the exercise while accepting the information on registrations to date for purposes of the long overdue elections.