Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, On Tuesday August 1st 2023, the Macedonia Joppa Voluntary Committee (MJVC), a non-profitable organization located at Eversham Village, East Corentyne, Berbice commemorates the abolition of slavery in 1834.

Dear Editor, I write this in response to the letter entitled `Speed bumps place our country in danger’ appearing in the Guyana Times and Kaieteur News in recent days. 

Dear Editor, Permit me to make this tribute to Sister Clementine Marshall, who began her transition to the world of ancestors on June 22.2023.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to Dr. David Hind’s request as presented in his letter `WPA calls on Dr.

Dear Editor, I have long come to the realization that successful cricketers do not necessarily become good cricket administrators.

Dear Editor, Ms. Nazima Raghubir, Head of the Guyana Press Association, has elected to respond to my letter to the press of the 13th July, in which I pointed out that at the President’s press conference “I ensured that every reporter present  who wished to ask a question did so with a follow up question and one reporter (Nazima Raghubir) managed to slip in five questions “I further pointed out that “ altogether 25 questions were asked by the media and answered by the President”. 

Dear Editor,  Social commentary seems to have become an exercise in futility, especially when targeting those considered to be leaders and role models, who fail in these roles.

Dear Editor, When then Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman signed that lousy, lopsided 2% oil contract then came with a book to sell to us an “explanation” or an excuse for his “ordeal”, are we to believe that he pondered, ruminated, agonised, soul-searched, suffered lost sleep before or after signing? 

Dear Editor, As a result of the conspicuous and striking silence from the so-called bastions of press freedom in Guyana, it has become imperative to share this perspective on press conferences hosted by Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton and generally by the PNC-led APNU.

Dear Editor, Over the past few days we have been greeted by strange and unbelievable statements and for brevity I refer to two, one – my disappointment by my friend, Kit Nascimento who sought  as he did to defend  a restriction on the independent media.

Dear Editor, The sheer organisational magnitude and efficiency of ExxonMobil as an industrial power was shown in the MARAD Notices to Mariners numbers 106 and 107 (2023) dated 12 June but only published on July 13 in your paper. 

Dear Editor, Among other evils, tribal politics has damaged our very psyche in a peculiar way: intellectuals have become know-it-all, pompous, and arrogant. 

Dear Editor, Permit me to vent about the garbage disposal issues in the town of New Amsterdam.

Dear Editor, A few days ago, a distinguished Guyanese departed from among us.

Dear Editor We write in response to a letter penned by Dr.

Dear Editor, I follow events in Guyana (too) avidly but I am failing to see any vision emerging about the size, shape and timbre of the society in 2030.

Dear Editor I am not surprised that Consultant Kit Nascimento would jump at the opportunity to create and peddle the narrative penned in his letter dated 13 July 2023.

Dear Editor, First a name was given, some time ago, and everyone thought it was a one man commission to look into the devastating fire. 

Dear Editor, A good friend and prominent Guyanese banker who has lived in Canada and the USA and worked extensively in the Caribbean and who currently works here recently remarked that “Nothing can prepare you for Guyana.”

Dear Editor, President Ali held a live broadcast Press Conference on Wednesday last (12th July, 2023), broadcast on NCN TV and online at 10:00 am and rebroadcast at prime time that evening.