Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Many thanks for your Sunday editorial on residential areas.

Dear Editor, SN’s Business Editorial of November 11, is a somewhat constricted submission on the historicity of Vocational Education and Training since British Guiana, which in fact began at: i) the Canadian-owned Demerara Bauxite Company (up the River); followed by ii) Bookers Sugar Estates, on the coastland, initially a five year programme certified by City & Guilds of London, England.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your news report (Nov 13) with caption “Guyana has world’s biggest diaspora – Forbes report”. 

Dear Editor, Last Tuesday at his press conference, Mr. Aubrey Norton finally exposed the folly of his bloated list complaint.

Dear Editor, Further to the publication on 13 September 2022 on NPTAB’s website for MNRE’s Gas to Energy as it is named therein, the population is left to wonder what the cost of the NGL plant is.

Dear Editor, I just could not resist commenting on Dr. Jerry Jailall’s most recent letter to the Editor, wherein was expressed perhaps all the oft-repeated but today discredited myths about marijuana.

Dear Editor, As someone who was trained as an economist, being among the few in Guyana who attended courses sponsored by the IMF’s Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Center (CARTAC), the blame for my extended ten-year stint in the teaching profession is solely mine.

Dear Editor, The amendment to the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act of 1988 by Bill No 2 of 2021 falls short of the expectation of full decriminalisation of cannabis under 30 grams.

Dear Editor, That visit to the UK which unfortunately did not take place, and turned out to be nothing more than an expensive airplane ride, has lessons for all of us.

Dear Editor, I wish to utilise your letter column to advise young poets not to be too fast to present a freshly written poem to others.

Dear Editor, There seems to have been a recent upsurge of visits by Government Ministers to various communities across the country and on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Minister of Public Service, Sonia Parag, visited Eldorado, West Coast Berbice to, as she put it, “identify what level of support government could provide to residents of that community and whether new training programmes could be established there.”

Dear Editor, Back in April (and even before that the sentiments were expressed many times), a letter writer, in utter disgust, stated that “I don’t believe I’ve met a single person who hasn’t had an issue with the mini-bus culture in Guyana.”

Dear Editor, It’s an unholy, exploitative and abusive assault on the working and pedestrian class of Guyana, who wish to own an economy family vehicle due to the draconian taxes levied on personal vehicles by this governing administration.

Dear Editor, I admit that it is neither Sherlock Holmes nor John Grisham. 

Dear Editor, The consistency with which lives are lost to boat mishaps and river accidents is alarming.

Dear Editor, National Cleanup Exercise, lots of photographs and it was good to see the Chief Citizen and team joining the efforts and not boycotting like the last time.

Dear Editor, I am attaching two pictures detailing the present condition of a bridge and eroded 4 cornered road shoulders.

Dear Editor, This Letter “A Fair Deal for Guyana – A Fair Deal for the Planet”, was sent to President Irfaan Ali by 45 Guyanese on Friday, November 11, to coincide with the UN Climate Summit, COP27, being held in Egypt.

Dear Editor, Throughout 2009 I argued for the Opposition and its partisans to abandon their insistence that the PPP was an “Elected Dictatorship”, since it blocked them from seizing the real opportunity to win power at the polls.

Dear Editor, We must always welcome medical inputs from the Government.