Opinion — letters to the editor from Guyana's newspapers

After the MV Barima tragedy, Ali’s visible presence and promise to let truth emerge frame grief before accountability.

A ferry inquiry is already being set up to fail, with critics warning opposition-picked commissioners would turn it into a political spectacle.

Guyana’s future hinges on its youth, but rising crime, weak support systems and social decay threaten that promise.

A Barima-born Indigenous Guyanese at the UN’s top job would test whether small states can lead a fractured world order.

The MV Barima tragedy exposes a deadly double standard: hinterland Indigenous communities still travel with unsafe, neglected transport. Guyana’s oil wealth has not yet delivered the basic protections they have long been promised.

Ferry manifests may be full of aliases, as Guyanese routinely dodge sharing personal details. That habit now complicates questions about who really boarded.