Opinion

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Voice (TCV) (www.caribvoice.org) joins with other NGOs and Women’s Rights Organizations in calling upon Carib Beer to go beyond a public apology in expressing their contrition for the awful ad that was both offensive and insensitive to women and gender based violence victims and activists in Guyana and the rest of the Caribbean.

The fact that some commentators are advocating that any increase in minibus fares be linked to an across-the -board improvement in the quality of service afforded commuters resembles a desperate bid to claw back some measure of leverage from an industry ‘gone wild’ though the more one thinks of throwing in ‘good behaviour’ as part of the criteria for increased fares the more it seems to be not a particularly good idea.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to make a little contribution in relation to the topical issue of alcohol abuse in the society and my  impulse to being proactive on the subject has been recently recharged having  heard the Opposition Leader complaining about alcohol usage in Parliament, an editorial in one  of the leading dailies, Caitlin Vieira’s the Psychologist and You (Sunday 19th and Sunday 26th August 2018) and now a definitive study reported by AFP (Paris, France)  done by lead researcher Max Griswald at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, Washington.

Dear Editor, The sugar industry has for centuries provided many traumatic experiences for those who have lived and worked in it; to the extent that management, workers and the unions who have represented the latter have learnt to take stress for granted.

Dear Editor, Every now and again there comes along that rare individual, who epitomizes selfless service and continuing sacrifice; someone who does so with grace and dignity. 

Dear Editor, I have read with keen interest and saw the Evening News and I am convinced that the malicious and vitriolic attack on Mr Gobin Harbhajan is meant to silence him in his fight against corruption perpetrated by officials and other members of the Alliance for Change (AFC).

Dear Editor, As a concerned resident of Moruca. I would like to make those in authority at the regional and national level in the Ministry of Public Health aware of an act of gross neglect and blatant disregard to the code of ethics that encompass the nursing profession.

Dear Editor, I had worked at GPHC for over 10 days seeing this patient’s husband looking very sad in the ward; his wife was diagnosed with obstructive jaundice.

Dear Editor, I have seen a report in the Stabroek News, August 22nd concerning telecommunications matters reporting the CEO, Mr.

Despite assurances, President Granger is yet to convene a press conference for the local media corps and to begin to hold them on a regular basis.

Dear Editor, A recent report of the World Bank discloses that the “hinterland areas, where only 9.6 percent of the total population resided, housed 64 percent of the Guyanese population with acute deprivation in health, education and standard of living.”

Dear Editor, Recently the news media carried an article on the operations of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) arising from a bi-partisan Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Social Services meeting with the senior officials of the NIS.

Dear Editor, The early Tuesday, August 21, 2018, morning robbery and beatings of the proprietors of the Real Value Supermarket is the latest incident that confirms the fact that crime has our nation in a strangle hold.

Last week a 23-member US Congressional delegation, including military personnel, breezed in here for reasons which were never officially explained.

Dear Editor, I see that British High Commissioner to Guyana Gregory Quinn has waded into the discussion on how Guyana should spend its oil money.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has benefited from several initiatives to prepare ranks to respond appropriately to reports of domestic violence. 

Dear Editor, Why the slothfulness in effecting repairs to the Annai–Lethem stretch of the Lethem-Linden road?