Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,  For years now, across the different political regimes (PNC and PPP), it has been the policy and practice to provide grants to the African Guyanese communities for the purpose of hosting activities or undertaking community projects in commemoration of the 1833 proclamation of the emancipation of the enslaved people of African descent and the abolition of enslavement, in the colony, in 1834.

Dear Editor, Over the years, hundreds of letters with suggestions to  reduce the increasingly high traffic deaths in Guyana have been published in the national newspapers in the country.

Dear Editor, In a SN letter of July 19, Writer Conrad Barrow in response to my earlier letter on the above referenced subject, was of the opinion that I did not attend Queen’s College nor Bishops’ High School or even visited them. 

Dear Editor, Ah, the sight of our tiny squad at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games—it really tugs at the heartstrings, doesn’t it?

Dear Editor,  The counter offer for the teachers’ pay hike in the ongoing negotiations for 2024 it is posited is seven percent. 

Dear Editor, The accusations levelled against senior police officers, as senior as the acting Police Commissioner are serious.

Dear Editor, Several day ago, I had the displeasure of witnessing a harrowing incident of child abuse in a most distressing video shared on several social media platforms.

Dear Editor, The training initiative, in the plumbing and electrical fields, being offered to residents of Festival City and surrounding communities must be commended.

Dear Editor, Over the years, I have had to fight a relentless battle with the NIS to get my hard-earned old age benefits corrected.

Dear Editor, There currently exists a gap in our parliamentary structure.

Dear Editor, Permit me to share some thoughts on a most distasteful episode in Guyanese history.

Dear Editor, The Paris 2024 Olympics is here.  I flashed back 56 years, and it is Mexico City, and the Olympics of October 1968. 

Dear Editor, I am always delighted to share a positive story.

Dear Editor,  In light of the ruling party’s prevailing confidence, I wish to present a strategic rationale for why it may be advantageous for the ruling party of Guyana to consider holding elections in 2024 instead of waiting until 2025.

Dear Editor, Ramon Gaskin was one of the most delightful people I have ever met.

Dear Editor, The Bar Association’s message to Guyanese is a reminder of how out of touch and irrelevant this association has become: “The Bar Council of The Bar Association in the premises wishes to remind and urge members of the public to exercise responsibility in making public statements touching and concerning the administration of justice, including judicial officers and thereby refrain from personal attacks, the use of threatening language which threaten the personal safety of judicial officers or otherwise and or making scandalous, inflammatory and unsubstantiated allegations against judicial officers”, sure enough nobody should threaten anyone else’s safety (Judge or layman) and,  I believe the Judiciary knows how to respond to threats well enough but what’s the plan for Guyanese (or others) based in America for example?

Dear Editor Stabroek News editorial concerning the global performance towards reaching the targets of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (7/25/2024) correctly observed that “only 17 percent of [those] … targets are on track.”

Dear Editor, Last December, with President Maduro at full volume with his jingoistic rhetoric whipping up the Venezuelan masses and his military posturing causing alarm especially here on the Guyana side of the Guyana-Venezuela border, leaders in this Hemisphere, anxious about the potential for any kind of conflict to threaten the Caribbean’s cherished designation as a Zone of Peace, got into full diplomatic damage control.

Dear Editor, The Region Three Private Sector Inc. (R3PSInc) stands in strong support of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) as they undertake crucial investigations into allegations of corruption and financial impropriety.

Dear Editor, I was struck by the recent announcement that the Guyana government has made its third withdrawal of the year from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF), amounting to a hefty US$300 million.