Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It has been eight years since large oil reserves were discovered off the shores of Guyana, but the nation has only reaped a measly 14.5% of total oil revenues since oil production or more accurately oil extraction started in 2019.

Dear Editor, I commend Darren Wade for his missive “Imperative not to conflate slavery and indentureship experiences” (Sep 25) in which he argues that they were two different (aspects of economic) systems and should not be conflated because it has the potential to continue and or further divide us along ethnicity lines.

Dear Editor, Whenever we think of appropriation in normal parlance, the tendency is to think of a physical taking away – theft of money or perhaps of an idea that was not patented.

Dear Editor, This week India made history by being the first country to land near the South Pole of the moon.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a statement by Trinidad & Tobago’s (T&T) High Commissioner to Guyana, Ambassador Conrad Enill.

Dear Editor, At one time or the other, the Exxon-Guyana oil contract has been called “a crime”, or the “crime of the century”, or surrounded by “criminality.”

Dear Editor, Another more modern and more instructive way of saying of Guyana “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” is to say that Guyana is not a learning society. 

Dear Editor, Long time when social ladders were steep and rungs treacherous, the shopkeeper was a man to reckon with, not only for rations.

Dear Editor Guyana, a country blessed with abundant oil resources, holds the potential for an economic transformation that could drastically improve the lives of its citizens.

Dear Editor, I am a simple man, but could you help me because reading the news in the independent media is sending up my blood pressure.

Dear Editor Ours is a society that has been beaten down by an age old political system with local Machiavellian leaders who themselves are products of that same broken society.

Dear Editor, I have always considered that Jagdeo and the PPP could have done much more for sugar workers through any of a variety of approaches to the economic restructuring of the sugar industry to avoid what has become a financial and economic disaster for both sugar workers and the industry. 

Dear Editor, Dr. Roger Forbes Luncheon’s funeral epitomised the man he was, punctuated with a great sense of statesmanship, servitude and unassuming authority.

Dear Editor, It is essential to acknowledge that the enslavement of Africans and the transatlantic slave trade should not be conflated with the system of indentureship.

Dear Editor, I must congratulate the staff of Stabroek News for the remarkable work they are doing in terms of news output.

Dear Editor, Dead men tell no tales. Firstly, sympathies to the family of the late Dr.

Dear Editor, I wish to address the issue of the reported calls in the Press for political decision-making by supermajorities (e.g.,

Dear Editor, This week the CXC results will be released for 2023.

Dear Editor, First, it was “high”, then “very high” and next “hard”.

Dear Editor, My attention has been drawn to Bharrat Jagdeo’s most recent press conference and to his usual rantings about myself and others, and in particular, about the Exxon contract.