Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Is the 8% increase for the sugar industry only for categories represented by GAWU?

Dear Editor, On August 4, 2022, eight Members of Parliament, from the Opposition Parliamentary benches, were unlawfully suspended from the National Assembly, four from four sittings and the remaining four from six sittings, all without due process. 

Dear Editor, Obscuring or distorting facts cannot make a lie anything other than the lie it is, and I wish to denounce untruthful statements made by Opposition MP Jermaine Figueira in an article published in a daily newspaper headlined “Govt.

Dear Editor, The PPP is laughing at us in the PNC while heaping scorn on our executives in the party.

Dear Editor, Two weekends ago, Irfaan Ali, during his visit to Leopold Street in Georgetown, utterly exposed that his government has no plan for the development of youths in Guyana.

Dear Editor, The Chief Citizen (CC) threw himself across a truck,  even lying on the ground, in order to block the removal of caravans and stalls outside the GPHC, as he boldly proclaimed ‘to represent the poorer class of people in this country’ (Demerarawaves December 13). 

Dear Editor, It is with great joy that we announce the grand opening of the Guyana Chapter of Maharshi Dayananda Gurukula, otherwise called the Rishi Dayananda Institute of Vedic Studies. 

Dear Editor, I refer to an article in yesterday’s online newspaper about a CAL passenger with a lost/delayed bag. 

Dear Editor, As the world observed “International Anti-Corruption Day,” I am trying to balance the headlines, “Gov’t touts robust anti-corruption framework -as Guyana observes UN Anti-Corruption Day” (SN, Dec.

Dear Editor, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr Lenox Shuman, listed some of the functions of the National Toshaos Council that are set out in the Amerindian Act 2006.

Dear Editor, Those of us who are better informed about the sugar industry of Guyana, indeed through high-level experience in managing it over decades, would be most amused by the vacuous debate, as reported, on Monday, 05 December in the National Assembly, in relation to the further $1B donated to GuySuCo.

Dear Editor,  Another official vehicle belonging to Region Six is in the news again, for all the wrong reasons.

Dear Editor, In a recent letter, I made the observation that GECOM, which had been media shy, had come alive.

Dear Editor, In 1994 the UNDP produced what must be the most consequential report by a UN agency in the post-1945 multilateral universe.

Dear Editor, I saw on Facebook an article in commemoration of International Civil Aviation Day (December 7, 2022 and took some time to appreciate the female geniuses in Guyana’s Aviation Sector.

Dear Editor, I wish to express my gratitude to the Caribbean Examinations Council for an award in 2003 given to me and others.

Dear Editor, They were two peas in a pod. Though they were generations apart; one a dedicated public servant, the other a catholic priest who held strong beliefs in liberation theology.

Dear Editor, On the COVID-19 Update of November 29, 2022 inaccurate information was disseminated. 

Dear Editor, I have read Dr. Janette Bulkan’s letter in the Stabroek News on 8 October 2022 titled, “NTC must explain legal basis of their endorsement of government’s move to make decisions over Indigenous titled lands.”

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Dr. Thomas Singh, Director of the University of Guyana GREEN Institute & Senior Lecturer UG in the Stabroek News of December 3rd 2022 “There is much debate on whether these forest credits really satisfy the criteria of `additionality’”.