Dear Editor,
I was knocked speechless by the gruesome brutality which was perpetrated on a defenceless village on the East Coast, under the pretence of a war with the police over an abducted teenager. The surviving families, including those of the soldier who died in the line of duty have my deepest sympathy.
As I look back at our history since 1950 I realize that Guyana and Guyanese have been woefully unsuccessful at solving our racial problems and tensions, which were engineered by the strife between two main political figures who are continuously being proclaimed as heroes and fathers of this nation.
One letter writer reflects on the pre 1950s. In the letter, “We must get to know each other again”, R Khan wrote, “I wish to ask our Indo and Afro-Guyanese peoples to get to know each other again, like the way it was before the 1960s when dirty politics drove us somewhat apart. I remember