Opinion

Dear Editor,  Kindly permit me space in your newspaper to respond to the article titled `Poor past …Alexander says Vishnu Persaud’s past performance sank him –Myers emerged the more qualified for top GECOM post’, which was published in the Guyana Chronicle June 14, 2018.

Dear Editor, Recently the Traffic Department commenced placing drivers before the courts for trucking long lengths of piles.

Dear Editor, I am horrified at the extremely high incidence of murder of Guyanese women at the hands of their husbands or intimate partners.

Dear Editor, The new pump which will be constructed soon at Three Friends on the Essequibo Coast  by Doodnauth Samaroo Investment will  be a boost for drainage and irrigation between Affiance to Anna Regina.

Dear Editor, “Who murdered Dr. Walter Rodney on June 13th, 1980?”

Dear Editor, A packed house at the Guyana High Commission on  Thursday – significantly the first anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy turned out to hear that great contemporary Guyanese David Lammy the MP for Tottenham and increasingly for the Caribbean speak eloquently on Grenfell-where he lost a close friend, the Windrush Generation debacle which showed the British Government in frankly a racist light, his ‘Guyaneseness’ (he is a joint passport holder and frequent visitor), his Christian Socialism and much more.

Dear Editor, Eid was happily celebrated by Guyanese Muslims across the New York metro area on Friday bringing the month-long fasting period (dawn to dusk) of Ramadan to a close.

Two weeks ago, a New York Times op-ed by Anne Richard, a former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration asked “Is the United States Losing Its Humanity?”

Dear Editor, Guyana, and, in particular successive PPP/C administrations, has always had a friendly, open and liberal immigration policy.

Dear Editor, The brouhaha reported in the press concerning the most recent selection of a Deputy Chief Election Officer, albeit on the allegation of racial bias, goes deeper than current exchanges.

Dear Editor, I refer to a Stabroek News article captioned `Parliament committee flags large number of Haitians, Cubans unaccounted for” that was published on June 14, 2018. 

Dear Editor, Our political parties, prior to getting into government (regardless of which party or combination of parties in power), made/make promises to the electorate that they then conveniently forget and inevitably fail to deliver when in office.

Dear Editor, In May 2018, the Amateur Astronomers Association of Guyana held its first essay competition.

The recent death by suicide of American celebrity chef, television personality, travel documentarian and author, CNN’s Anthony Bourdain, has placed the spotlight once more on the issue of mental health awareness and treatment.

Dear Editor, Two weeks ago was a good day for the residents of the Remigrant Housing Scheme because a number of new land owners came to see the land that they purchased and soon more will be coming. 

Dear Editor, “Owners of the ambitious MovieTowne mall are complaining of the red tape in getting business done, yesterday appealing for help from Government.

Dear Editor, June 13, 2018, marked 38 years since that dark day for Guyana when Walter Rodney was brutally assassinated on a street corner in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Having penned an article recently about the failure of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to update its website about the issuance of new drivers’ licences in the form of cards, I was temporarily dumbstruck to discover that the GRA has compounded its ineptitude.