Opinion

Dear Editor, From all appearances, misbehaviours and misrepresentations, the sugar industry would seem to be going in a direction that is other than ‘sweet’ – back into a place once described so eloquently by Clem Seecharran as ‘bitter sugar’.

Dear Editor, In 2007 after decades of begging this government to help them develop their landlocked states of Amazonas and Roraima, a delegation of Brazilians came to Guyana to discuss the deep water harbour, the highway from Brazil and hydropower.

Dear Editor, The GAWU has seen Dr David Hinds’ response to our letter which appeared in the Stabroek News under the title `Why can’t GAWU acknowledge that this gov’t took the brave decision to confront the sugar problem?’;

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter published in your newspaper on May 30, 2018 titled, `Say no to the gay pride parade,’ by Bernice Walcott.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express my thoughts and feelings about being a citizen of Guyana at this point.

Dear Editor, The world is coming to an end.  For those bracing in resistance to anticipated religious teachings about to be foisted on them, I comfort by saying: Think again, as I am talking about the changing domestic political world. 

The Guyana Prison Service Inmates Survey, conducted as part of the Citizen Security Strengthening Programme, has confirmed that a number of prisoners have grown up surrounded by violence.

Dear Editor, The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana is calling on the administration of the Mae’s private school in Subryanville to apologise to the Amerindian child it ethnically discriminated against because the child wore his cultural attire as part of the school’s observance of Guyana’s Independence celebration.

Dear Editor, Silence is no longer the answer to the increasing level of disrespect that is being meted out to the Indigenous Peoples of Guyana.

Dear Editor, The deterioration of two recently built bridges on Vlissingen Road (Cemetery Road) is taking place rapidly not far away from the Police Outpost, as follows: – 1.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr E. B. John’s letter: `Fundamentally counterproductive interventions on GuySuCo’ (SN,29/5/18) One cannot gainsay the excellent points made by Mr John about the deep psycho-social role and impact of GuySuCo and the sugar industry on the lives of Guyanese who work and live in the sugar estates.

Dear Editor,  I refer to the calendar of events for this week published by SASOD (Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination) which includes a Gay Pride Parade on Saturday, June 2 presumably in the streets of Georgetown.

On the eve of the 52nd anniversary of our independence, one of the more prominent private schools in the capital city marked the occasion by celebrating culture day.

Dear Editor, I have watched with great interest, the many attack articles on Guyana Goldfields.

Dear Editor, I wish to encourage the CEO of the National Drainage & Irrigation Authority (NDIA), the Honourable Minister of Agriculture, the Honourable Minister of Public Infrastructure, the RDC and the NDC to pay a visit and inspect the road that passes Kuru Kururu to Laluni.

Dear Editor, Can Cricket West Indies (CWI) swear an oath that they have done everything, or even made serious efforts, to exploit this wonderful opportunity granted them to raise as much hurricane relief money as can reasonably be expected from Thursday’s WI versus the Rest of the World event?