Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Many Guyanese citizens are yet to be convinced that, over the next 25 years, we will achieve national unity, and successfully avoid or overcome the negative financial, economic, social and political effects of the nation’s major challenges and risks: [1] the resource curse (‘Dutch Disease’); [2] climate change and the degradation of our coastal and marine environments; [3] the political stalemate – in the 2011, 2015 and 2020 national elections, the two major political parties (PPP/C and APNU/AFC) won the tiniest possible majorities in Parliament (by only one seat and by an advantage of less than 2% of total votes); [4] inter-ethnic suspicions that sometimes lead to physical violence, especially against Guyanese of Indian ancestry; [5] a very high poverty rate (43.4% of the population – 338,520 persons) among all the ethnic communities of Indi-genous (Amerindian), African, Indian, Mixed, Portuguese, Chinese and European ancestry; and [6] significant corruption in the public and private sectors.

Dear Editor, With reference to the ongoing conversation on the ‘overpayments’ of contractors’ payments at Rose Hall Estate, GuySuCo claimed that they suffered ‘losses due to the overpayments’ to contractors.

Dear Editor, I have two situations with GTT: 1. I applied online to update my Fibre 100 to 200 since 2nd August, 2022 and to date nothing has been done.

Dear Editor, Happy Heritage Month to all Guyana, especially fellow Indigenous brethrens and sistrens located throughout the length and breadth of this beautiful country. 

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing my complaint on Friday Sept 9, 2022.

Dear Editor, I take serious offence when North American Guyanese, make remarks regarding things they are clueless about.

Dear Editor, In a letter which appeared in SN on Sept.

Dear Editor, I am a child of sugar and look askance at the rapid decline of what was once Guyana’s lodestar industry.

Dear Editor, In the text of the Art of War it is said, “Therefore a wise general strives to feed off the enemy.

Dear Editor, Please afford me the opportunity to expose the PPP’s farcical Public Accountability and Oversight Committee which now overlooks Government’s spending of our oil money among other issues.

Dear Editor, Even, or especially, in the midst of outpouring of grief at her death at 96 years old, it bears reminding that for the past seven decades, Elizabeth II has played the colonial good cop, to the British imperial machinery’s bad cop – while it was Her Majesty’s troops that were sent to undermine and reshape Guyana’s pre-independence political direction for over a decade, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, it was Her Majesty herself who alighted to ‘grant’ independence in 1966. 

Dear Editor, The Main Street murder gets mistier by the day, more of a mystery with each new development. 

Dear Editor, I do not believe in humiliating persons for poor performances. 

Dear Editor, On Friday, September 9, 2022, I read both the Kaieteur News and the Stabroek News and saw news pieces that caught my attention.

Dear Editor, Whenever someone of renown, stature, or of exceptional personage passes on, the world pays attention, pays homage, eulogizes and usually laments and grieves.

Dear Editor, While 10,368 students wrote the CSEC exams, and 671 students wrote the CAPE, our Ministry of Education has done its annual celebration of a tiny percentage of academically and intellectually gifted students who have done expectedly well at the CSEC and CAPE exams.

Dear Editor, The Attorney-General`s recent request to have GECOM avail to him the list, submitted to GECOM by the APNU-AFC, of the names of the persons purportedly impersonated has opened the pandora box that provides an opportunity for the public exposure of the following: 1.

Dear Editor, The relationship between myself and Ralph Ramkarran is predated by a relationship between my father, Stephen Lewis, and his father, Boysie Ramkarran.

Dear Editor, It was reported in the media that in October 2021, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Sharon Hicks, was arrested by the police after allegedly demanding bribes from a businessman who paid her with marked bills that were retrieved during a sting operation conducted by the police.

Dear Editor, I put the following questions which in my view are beyond party affiliation and partisan politics… this is about the future of the country.