Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Imagine my utter shock when Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh returned from his U.S.

Dear Editor, The front page of Stabroek News, August 28,  2024 carried an article with a photograph under the caption, “Pakaraima Games: President Irfaan Ali yesterday attended the North Pakaraima District Games 2024 at Kamana Community Ground, Region Eight.

Dear Editor, Peter Vieira, one of Guyana’s outstanding Leather artists died at his home in Sophia some weeks back.

Dear Editor, In his letter published in the Stabroek News edition of September 8, 2024, with the caption “Given questionable credibility of inflation data, it is important to know weight of each of the nine groups in consumer basket”, Dr.

Dear Editor, Calls for constitutional change to realise devolution of power to the masses ignore the constitution makes provision for this.

Dear Editor, With the permission of SN’s editorial team, I am writing to preempt its weekly Cost-of-Living series that comes out on Mondays.

Dear Editor, What a first week of the new school year: schools rebuilt; new schools constructed and commissioned; pit latrines to a school without basic facility – working toilet; lamentations about the new laboratory at a secondary school; some schools affected by electrical issues.

Dear Editor, The fact that so much media space, time and resources are devoted to inflation speak in one voice, which is that most Guyanese wage a daily battle to put food on the table.

Dear Editor, “The lack of proficiency in [mathematics and English] is not just an academic issue but one that could have long-term socio-economic consequences”; the words of Dr Wayne Wesley, Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Examinations Council, reported in the Barbados Nation newspaper of August 21.

Dear Editor, Do I have to do everything around here?  Why should I be teaching stubborn Guyanese local life? 

Dear Editor, I write today regarding the dark side to the construction of highways and bridges, which has often had an entrenched racial segregation motive, especially in the United States, where these infrastructures became physical barriers separating white and minority neighbourhoods.

Dear Editor, While meetings which facilitate discussions surrounding US Exim ‘Bank’s support towards Guyana’s transformational Gas-to-Energy project’ continue but before ExxonMobil completes the approximately US$1B pipeline would the Environmental Protection Agency kindly inform whether the contractual obligations in the Environmental Permit 2021528-NGPLE have been upheld.

Dear Editor, Guyana is poised for continued impressive growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), promising measurable benefits for all Guyanese.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your ongoing SN series on “How  the Cost of Living is affecting People”.

Dear Editor, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has assured us that the new Demerara River Bridge, with its shiny modern design and futuristic materials, will practically maintain itself—so much so that tolls will be a thing of the past!

Dear Editor, At last, the Yarrowkabra Secondary School is officially opened.

Dear Editor, I absorb the steady trickle of letters in SN and KN where citizens complain about chronic noise pollution.

Dear Editor, The observations raised about the recently commissioned Schoonord to Crane Road was shunted off as ‘empty noises’.

Dear Editor, I am a democrat. I abhor dictatorship. This is why I strongly condemn attempts to stifle the democratic aspirations of the Venezuelan people by the Maduro regime.

Dear Editor, I am eternally grateful to have been given the opportunity to commence my working life at the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC), on completion of my Secondary Education, several years ago.