Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Labour Act of Guyana Chapter 98:01, Sections 30, 31, and 32, identifies the mechanism of “collective agreements”, provides guidance to the parties to such agreements, and emphasizes the “binding enforceability” of such agreements. 

Dear Editor, The minority arm of the coalition made the valid point that the Tobago oil spill should serve as a wake-up call for us. 

Dear Editor, In my letter of 14 – 02 – 24 I wrote: “There is no reference in the reports of the Auditor General up to 2022 to suggest that financial statements of NAACIE were audited in the past five years.”

Dear Editor, To come to the point at once, I wish to comment on matters arising out of the teachers’ strike.

Dear Editor, Preventing a calypsonian from performing her/his work is reprehensible, the age of the performer and the message are the proffered excuses that ring hollow.

Dear Editor, Editorials have been slammed.  Letter writers and columnists lambasted, often slandered. 

Dear Editor, Last night I was inspired and so deeply moved by a discussion hosted by the Oil and Gas Governance Network called: The crude truth: Living on a teacher’s salary.

Dear Editor, People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo continues to act recklessly on national matters of grave import that require seriousness, integrity, accountability, respect for citizens’ rights and the rule of law.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education (MoE) says emphatically that they have been involved in the process of negotiations with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) when they suddenly aborted the process and called a strike.

Dear Editor, The last thing you need after you have been struck by a minibus is your phone stolen.

Dear Editor, As February is Black History month, I wish to share two pieces of information on Guyanese history which, I believe, are not generally known by most Guyanese.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education is alarmed at the blatant misinformation and inconsistencies apparently aimed at misinforming contained in the recent editorials and articles published in the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, Some 62 years ago, on February 16, infamously labelled ‘black Friday’, a budget riot was unleashed in British Guiana.

Dear Editor, The National Security Advisor posted a video on social media showing someone dressed in APNU+AFC colours and APNU written on his/her clothing doing what many considered to be witchcraft.

Dear Editor, So we are advancing step by step, day by day into the dark dungeon of a dictatorship, despair and disunity with the walls decorated with donkey’s dung.

Dear Editor,  I am a lover of Calypso as an art form.

Dear Editor, Clement Rohee’s letter debunking the distorted views of Vishnu Bisram, and consequently, Clem Seecharran, whose book slandering my father, President Cheddi, is the basis of Bisram’s connivance to attack Jagan’s role in Guyana’s history.

Dear Editor, Well it is correct when one engages in strike action one cannot be engaging in work/job related matters or activities at the same time.

Dear Editor, With reference to the current Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) strike, this teachers’ union, and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) should let the Guyanese people know of their observance of the Guyana Trades Unions’ Act as outlined hereunder.

 Dear Editor, One sees so many brains – on either scale of the divide – storming about salaries, budgeted scales that pretend to represent the value of jobs in the Public Service and the Teach-ing Profession, respectively.