Opinion

Dear Editor, President Granger may be in his final months of his presidency or just nearing the end of his first term.

Yesterday marked the beginning of Indigenous Heritage Month. We will, of course, be treated to all the usual exhibitions and the like, but one cannot help but wish that the population as a whole, and not just the First Peoples, were exposed to the early history of this land.

Dear Editor, I have been following the stand-off between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and based upon what has been taking place, I believe, and I might be wrong, that there is a need for the majority of the negotiators to attend negotiation classes, and also for them to familiarize themselves with a published text entitled Negotiating 101 by Peter Sander.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) wishes to respond to a letter by Mr.

Dear editor, “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world”-Malala Yousafzai (2013).

Dear Editor, Having given more than a handful of years as a teacher in the local environment, I think I am in a fair position to offer a few thoughts on the current threatening wage situation. 

Dear Editor, Of late a lot of negative news is appearing on the front pages of our daily papers about crimes allegedly committed by members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), especially the recently enlisted officers.

Dear Editor, Quite conveniently, in response to the Stabroek News editorial on Tuesday, a letter was penned by a Rowena A.

With a warning that the exodus from Venezuela is close to producing a “crisis moment”, last week the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) urged Latin American nations to relax visa restrictions for more than 1.6 million citizens who have left the country during the last three years.

Dear Editor, With regards to my letter of August 14, 2018 pertaining to the issue of a strange outbreak of rice disease in the Hague rice cultivation community on the West Coast Demerara in Region Three, I wish to say that my letter portrayed actual present-day occurrences.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Ministry of Education met on Wednesday August 29th, 2018 under the chairmanship of the Chief Labour Officer where the Union expressly stated, in a memorandum submitted, its acceptance of the invitation which must be seen as an act of courtesy.

Dear Editor, The appointment of Mr. Leslie A. James as Guyana’s Commissioner of Police by President David Granger is seen as fit, proper and appropriate.

Dear Editor, I write this letter in response to one of Freddie Kissoon’s expressed opinions that was published in the Friday, August 24, 2018 edition of the Kaieteur News (KN), under the caption, “Clive Thomas can damage his credibility”.

It is a rather unfortunate, yet undeniable fact, that the concept of animal control as a responsibility of government, whether central or local, appears to have long been abandoned here in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Conflicting statements emanating from the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue and the Honorable Minister of Foreign Affairs about fraud in the re-migrant concession scheme are a source of much confusion.

Dear Editor, The recent killing of Mr. Estevan Costa Marques a Brazilian miner in the Puruni, Region Seven (Cuyuni–Mazaruni) by a member of the Guyana Police Force, (GPF) and the autopsy report that revealed that he died from a shot to the back of his head, caused me to revisit a letter I began writing in response to one written by Mr.

Dear Editor, It was interesting to see the full page display by the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in SN of August 26, 2018.