Opinion

Dear Editor, So the Town Clerk has finally awoken from his long slumber to realise the city cannot be managed on a shoestring budget (SN, April 24).

What about nature’s worth? It’s our planet’s womb… What about forest trails?

Dear Editor, Don’t people ever understand that there are major consequences when we continue to kill off our tourism sector?

Dear Editor, During his tenure, Harold B Davis, the first Executive Chairman of GuySuCo commissioned (in the 1980s) the coordination of a range of heritage projects for the sugar industry.

Dear Editor, Putting the proverbial cart before the horse seems to be a regular pastime of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) led by the brilliant Wayne Forde.

Dear Editor, The issue of corruption has now become a front burner issue, with charges of corruption coming from both sides of the political divide.

Dear Editor, I recognize that my continuing efforts to have the Indian Arrival Day monument sited at Highbury where the first batch of Indian immigrants actually arrived instead of Palmyra which is apparently being pushed because of ‘convenience’ and/or ‘conspicuousness’ might now be seen as whipping a dead horse; but in all seriousness, I again beg the relevant authorities to please let good historical reason and common sense prevail.

Dear Editor, For the past two months, the street lights within the township of Anna Regina from Three Friends to Walton Hall have not been working.

Dear Editor, Today, I went to a hardware store to buy nails. 

Dear Editor, The following is an excerpt from pages 138-139 of Prof Beckles’ recent book on West Indies cricket, Cricket Without a Cause…: “The final stage in laying the foundation for the rise of a twenty-first-century, competitive Test response was the establishment of a CWI-UWI Cricket Academy, built upon the foundations of the university’s success, and the CCC as a transformational force.

Dear Editor, The Indian Action Committee (IAC) wishes to extend congratulations to the newly elected President of the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG), Brother Shahabudeen Ahmad.

On Monday afternoon at about 1.30 pm, as the City of Toronto finally began to thaw out from a long winter – as recently as last Thursday it was two degrees Celsius with snow on the ground –  the warm spring day was disrupted with the shocking news that a van had struck several pedestrians at the busy intersection of Yonge Street and Finch Avenue, in the north end of the city.

Dear Editor, In his column, ‘Cheddi Jagan on the WI Federation: CLR James on Cheddi Jagan’ (SN April 25) former long-term PPP executive, Ralph Ramkarran wrote: “Divided societies like Guyana suffer from a phenomenon whereby historic events which, when they occurred, gave rise to allegations of ethnic bias, never seem to go away.

Dear Editor, Back in 1990, the PNC government sold our only telecommunications company to a foreign entity and granted them a monopoly for forty years.

Dear Editor, With reference to my last letter of concern published in your SN on April 20th, titled ‘Does the GPF have a section responsible for traffic lights?’

Dear Editor, I recall, in the ‘70s, Dr Cheddi Jagan calling on contributors to the Mirror newspaper to avoid what he termed “mud-slinging”.

Dear Editor, Daily I learn more and more that an overwhelming number in this society desire a certain kind of country.