Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Petrostates by definition live or die by petroleum. When prices are high, and, for good measure rising, petrostates prosper, and when prices crash, they suffer (closest regional examples are Ecuador, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago during the last commodity super-cycle). 

Dear Editor, From time to time, we would have heard talk about the need for adherence to the rules-based multilateral trading system in international relations.

Dear Editor, A tariff is a tax. It is a tax imposed by Government on goods imported into, and occasionally exported from, a country.

​Dear Editor, I, a pensioner, did not receive my $30,000 subsidy for 2025 from GPL and stopped getting the 10 cubic meter water from GWI for 2025.

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the conspicuous silence of our business associations in the ongoing tax dispute between the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Mohamed’s Enterprises.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has its work to do, but has done it poorly so far in the instance of the Mohamed family.

Dear Editor, The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) regime can allocate all the money it wants to regional and local democratic councils, but until the autonomy of these authorities is truly respected, as outlined in the Constitution of Guyana, we are going nowhere.

Dear Editor, In politics, as in life, timing is everything. And in this critical hour of Guyana’s history—when our democracy is under siege, incompetence is putting our national interest at risk, and rampant corruption is rapidly eroding the financial security of the Guyanese people—we need a leader with integrity, guile, fortitude, honesty, and strength.

Dear Editor, As I continue to engage with the average Guyanese citizen—and in particular, our local fisherfolk—there is a growing concern about the potential impact of oil spills and pollution arising from offshore drilling activities.

Dear Editor, It appears to me that Guyana has slipped further downward!

Dear Editor, Justice Roxanne George, in her latest High Court ruling, is reported as lamenting that the country’s election laws are all over the place.

Dear Editor, Is Guyana justified to continue labelling itself a democracy?

Dear Editor, Counterfeit money is stirring in Guyana. I detected this twice in my business while doing transaction with customers.

Dear Editor, With our newfound wealth, occasioned by the oil-find off our Atlantic coast, fuelling our rapid development, we should take heed of Fredrick Douglas pithy observation that crops can never be produced without first breaking apart the earth.

Dear Editor, I am eternally grateful for this medium, where we, the citizens, can highlight matters and concerns in the absence of parliamentary meetings and access to state media, both of which are funded by taxpayers.

Dear Editor, As a sitting member of the opposition and a committed servant of the people of Guyana, I feel compelled to speak to this very important issue and express my deep concern regarding the trajectory of the ongoing “negotiations” within the political “coalition.”

Dear Editor, Does the PPP and PNC believe in the freedom to earn a living by all Guyanese? 

Dear Editor, The editorial of Sunday April 6 was highly informative on the issue of tariffs as it pertains to recent events globally.

Dear Editor, Recent disclosures on the receipt of revenues from Guyana’s oil (Official Gazette) show that Guyana received US$605.5 million, inclusive of US$84.1 million in royalty payments.

Dear Editor, Persons who have either read or lived through the events that shape the world today would recognise there is a consistent pattern that has quenched the thirst of greed, imperialism, slavery and colonialism.