Opinion

Dear Editor, Governor General Sir David Rose and later President Arthur Chung were the guardians of the Westminster-model Constitution.

Dear Editor, Guyana has always been touted as a country with great potential.

Last Saturday, the game of cricket, Test cricket (not its distant relative – one day cricket or its cheap impersonator – T20 cricket), quite appropriately returned to its rightful position, centre stage.

Dear Editor, The AFC is seeking a re-negotiation of the Cummingsburg Accord ahead of the impending national and regional elections.

Dear Editor, Yesterday at 5:42 am, I was the victim of an attempted armed robbery near the corners of Alexander Street and North Road, whilst out for my morning run.

Dear Editor, As the country prepares to draw down on its oil revenues early next year, there are heightened expectations that the proceeds will catapult the economy to higher levels of performance.

Dear Editor, I have written twice on the subject of Haitian arrivals in Guyana asking that the Minister of Citizenship, Mr Winston Felix, explain the fact, according to him, that over 8,000 Haitians recently arrived in our country and less than 2,000 are recorded as having departed.

Dear Editor, Under Melinda Janki’s letter (SN: 18/08/19), I asked several questions: What royalties are we getting on one million barrels of oil?

Dear Editor, The declaration from Minister Valerie Garrido-Lowe that elections will be held this year, sometime in December, according to “information from the President” (SN: 17/08/19), seems to be another attempt of the APNU+AFC to defy the most supreme law and hide from the electorate for as long as they can.

Dear Editor, Many of my fellow Guyanese think that now that oil is found and would be produced here, we would be a rich nation.

Dear Editor, The students, parents, and educators in the Marian Academy family have much to be proud of, humbled over, and thankful about its 2018-19 CSEC report card.

Dear Editor, The announcement last week of Guyana’s performance at the 2019 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) assessments gave Guyana much to celebrate.

Dear Editor, Two recent developments at the Ministry of Education, I feel, are worthy of comment as they could be indicative of the quality of leadership there.

Last Thursday’s claim emanating from a Russian Federation spokesperson that Guyana and the United Kingdom are jointly stoking the fires of an ongoing insurrection against the Maduro administration in Venezuela, using an unnamed island in the Essequibo river to train “sabotage and spy groups” for reentry into the country, amounts to a contrivance so far-fetched that it would merit no serious attention at all under different circumstances.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday last, Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire ruled, that names cannot be removed from the National Register of Registrants, other than upon grounds stated in the Constitution and the National Registration Act and in accordance with the procedure laid down in that Act.

Dear Editor, A power sharing announcement came. No! It was not about Guyana.

Dear Editor, The current debate over the unexpected and unexplained arrival of thousands of Haitians all of a sudden in our country was bound to attract national attention.

Dear Editor, Immediately after the change of government, signs could be seen all over signalling that things might be looking better.