Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In Guyana we sing “Christmas comes once a year, and everybody must have a share, everybody must have their rum and ginger beer.”

Dear Editor, It just happened that my visitor was a journalist whose eye happened to have caught the recent nonageneric exchange between the NIS and me.

Dear Editor, Please permit us a space to air our concerns.

Dear Editor, I recommend the article written by Ann Usher on ‘Indigenous groups in Guyana raise alarm over historic issuance of carbon credits by Norwegian-funded certifier’, Development Today, 23 December 2022.

Dear Editor, All around us we witness the demand for “representation by presence” in calls for “diversity” in institutions.

Dear Editor, As Amerindian leaders, it is important to speak up, when our voices as Indigenous peoples who live in our forests, are taken over by those who profess to speak for us.

Dear Editor, We the residents of Charlestown have an urgent request to have a gentleman who goes by the alias “Short man”, be removed from the area permanently, as this individual has been a threat to the safety and security of innocent citizens of the Charlestown & surrounding wards of Georgetown area for many years now and nobody seems to be doing anything about it.

Dear Editor, One notes the persistent indifference of the General Manager, NIS, too busy to enquire who is a ‘nonagenarian’.

Dear Editor, I have pleasure in extending to Stabroek News and its staff my gratitude for the interactions I have had with it via my letters to the letter column.

Dear Editor, There is an article in the online edition of ‘Mirror’ in which last Sunday’s classic World Cup Football final between Argentina and France, which Argentina won in a shootout, is now subject to an almost 200,000 signed petition, by a French website and largely in  France,  calling for the final to be replayed (Dec 23).

Dear Editor,  I’ve said repeatedly that Guyana is blessed immensely. We have an abundance of wildlife, agricultural produce, and amazing/breathtaking views throughout the country.

Dear Editor, Guyana is no doubt going through massive economic transformation.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to E.B John’s two recent letters to the editor dated December 8 bearing the caption “Nonagenarian awaiting acknowledgement from NIS and December 23, Captioned “A most indifferent NIS”.

Dear Editor, The AG is on record as advising GT residents and business owners to mount legal action as a recourse to compel M&CC to remove illegal vendors and encumbrances from their premises (GSN December 22).

Dear Editor, CRG would like to thank you and your readers for the support shown.

Dear Editor, In his letter, “I incorrectly claimed that I personally witnessed electronic voter identification in Jamaica” (Stabroek News, December 22, 2022) Mr.

Dear Editor, Apart from the fact that there were the Tyrells (Winston and Lance) other Engineers/Chemists in Bookers Sugar Estates including: Joe Alfred, George James, Narvon Persaud, Leonard Khan, Keith Williams; while Agriculturists included Vibert Yong Kong, Donald Drayton; Personnel Managers included Nowrang Persaud, Emamudeen Khan, Abdul Baksh and Anthony Downes; Errol Hanoman and Allan Luck accountants.

Dear Editor, We observed the third anniversary of the successful no confidence motion last Wednesday December 21, triggering new elections that catapulted the then opposition PPP into office.

Dear Editor, It has been near a decade since the Governments of CARICOM established a Reparations Commission to promote regional and global understanding of the enslavement of African people and native genocide with the objective of securing reparatory justice and development for the still suffering people of the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, WPA notes with great concern the government’s announcement via the Attorney General that it intends to repeal the Cybercrime Act and replace it with a new law based on a model emanating from the United Nations.