Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Guyana hosted the last round and the play-offs of the recently concluded CPL 2022 Tournament.

Dear Editor, As the dust slowly settles subsequent to the completion of the Caribbean Premier League 2022 version, followed by the much vaunted Carnival events, I must express my utter disgust over the fact that the aforementioned events were scheduled and coincided with the Great Hindu festival of Navratri during which the feminine aspect of god is propitiated.

Dear Editor, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Guyanese are in for more pain. 

Dear Editor, It was as a Bookers Sugar Estates Cadet in 1958, assigned to Bookers Industrial Holdings Ltd, that I was directed to review a register of their land sales in an area outside of Georgetown, since called Prashad Nagar.

Dear Editor, The brutal murder of Samuel Grannum in the heart of the city, by as many as six men, shows the evil and horrific mentality of some in this society.

Dear Editor,  Policy makers and social activists felt relieved in early 2022 when the reported suicide rate declined (by 21.7%) between 2016 (23.4 per 100,000) and 2021 (18.3 per 100,000), partly in response to initiatives linked to the Government’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy 2015-2020 (NSPS), and National Mental Health Action Plan, 2015-2020, as well as to the work of NGOs, but the suicide problem persists and remains significant.

Dear Editor, SN’s September 30th editorial “A filthy business” said much. 

Dear Editor, At a recent meeting at the Guyana High Commission in London, the Hon.

Dear Editor, The attack on the GTI student was brutal, swift and it seems deadly was the intended outcome. 

Dear Editor, I wish to follow up on the remarks made about the recent Cricket Carnival by letter writers Dr.

Dear Editor, October 6th, 2022 marks the 42nd Anniversary of the fraudulent 1980 Constitution.

Dear Editor, It is just possible that SN may have misunderstood the exposition of the Vice-President and company regarding ‘one off cash grants to private cane farmers’ in Region 3.

Dear Editor, The PPP/C Government of Guyana is being accused of discrimination in favouring its supporters (mainly Indo Guyanese) again.

Dear Editor, I refer to your article on page 20 of the Sunday Stabroek Oct 2, 2022 which carried Venezuela’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ response to Guyana’s President’s statement to the UN General Assembly last week, 30th September 2022.

Dear Editor, The recent letter of former Ambassador Kenrick Hunte that “EEPGL and auditors should explain why total revenue is included in the PSA’s cost function” (SN 4 Oct 2022) offers considerable detail on mechanisms associated with Illicit Financial Flows (IFF) as capital flight from developing countries.

Dear Editor, I write to join in the condemnation of the recent Guyana Police Force (GPF) “wanted bulletin” for Rickford Burke, President of the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID), on an extortion charge.

Dear Editor, I have decided to write this letter because of the large number of bloggers who thought Sodom and Gomorrah had descended upon Guyana with the vulgar behaviours, and high nudity seen at the recent Cricket Carnival.

Dear Editor, I have a fascination with the month of October.

Dear Editor, Sherwood Lowe in his letter, ‘Shifting the conversation on racial discrimination regardless of where one stands on the existence and extent of the problem’ self-debunks.

Dear Editor, Today, October 5th marks thirty years since the restoration of democracy to Guyana after twenty-eight years of PNC dictatorial rule.