Opinion

Dear Editor, Justice (Ret’d) James Patterson has made my point, emphatically, about the perverse ethnic and political domination, and lack of diversity and racial exclusion in the make-up and hiring practices of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), in his considered – but irrational –  decision to reject the top ranked candidate, Vishnu Persaud, for the post of Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) of GECOM.

Dear Editor, In a previous letter I indicated that in 2013, on the eve of GECOM`s consideration of Mr.

Dear Editor, This issue of race that some seek to trivialise while others use as a wedge in this society must make us all intolerant of such behaviour because what such action set out to do is to keep us divided and underdeveloped as a few rape and reap of this nation’s bounties.

Dear Editor,  From my childhood I can clearly remember that the words “Psychiatry” and “Mental Health Issues” were not popular.

Dear Editor,  In my letter, which was published in your Saturday, June 16, 2018 edition, I inadvertently said that the incumbent Human Resources Manager (HRM) was employed by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in early 2017. This

The Gay Pride March which was held earlier this month in Georgetown was less significant in terms of what it represented in and of itself, than for the fact that it generated yet again the fundamental debate on the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

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.