Opinion

Dear Editor, I hold no brief for Amna Ally. In fact, I do not believe she likes me but she is not racist and would never betray the PNC by having any association with the PPP.

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my thoughts regarding President Irfaan Ali’s recent interview with Trinidad’s CNC 3, where he addressed the issue of discrimination by showcasing two members of his public relations team, one Afro-Guyanese and one Indo-Guyanese.

Dear Editor, Suicide is a major public health problem in Guyana, but not much attention is placed on this social issue to lower, if not eradicate, it altogether.

Dear Editor, In a recently concluded doctoral dissertation, I explored issues surrounding poverty, injustices and theology.

Dear Editor, Following on my letter on the drag race accident in an East Coast community, I had hoped this letter would not have to be written. 

Dear Editor, The group of Guyana’s categories of Health Workers include: Trained Nurse/ Midwife; Nurse; Nurse Assistant and Nurse Aide amongst others, who are supervised by more professional health personnel, both male and female.

Dear Editor, Human-caused climate change coupled with the natural El Nino dry weather phenomenon and aided and abetted by people deliberately setting grass and forest fires have brought us to this current state of destructive and polluting wildfires raging across our country.

Dear Editor, Over the past few months, I had cause to use the pontoon crossing at Kurupukari a few times and almost every time there were delays which prevented me crossing on schedule.

On Sunday last, the world observed World Health Day, the 76th anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organisation (WHO), under the theme ‘My health, my right’.

Dear Editor, Not a single Guyanese for, or against any democratically elected government of the day, nor even the ‘politically undecided’ should consider the threat by Vene-zuela to use force to seize a large chuck of Guyanese territory to be unreal or unimagined… It is real!

Dear Editor, Stabroek News (SN) editorial of April 8, 2024, posited that the carbon content per barrel of crude oil is 0.43 metric tons and concluded that the President Ali administration is single-mindedly focused on extraction and infrastructure.

Dear Editor, No one should differ with our former PM Nagamootoo’s yearning for greater national unity, greater civility, and mutual respect amongst us Guyanese; at all times and very much so at times of change of Government in our country, and in this instance the change of Government in August 2020.

Dear Editor, In response to the recent letter critiquing Guyana’s readiness as a tourist destination, I offer a perspective rooted in extensive global travel experience and a deep affection for Guyana’s unique charm.

Dear Editor, I have argued before and still insist that our Integrity Commission is both badly mis-purposed (as most of its statutory functions are redundant and unnecessary) and a crass violator of privacy and comfort rights of public officials and their families.

Dear Editor, If ever there was a more hackneyed statement by politicians about our agriculture it is the oft-times reference to Guyana as the potential food basket of the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, Exxon has yet to share what the estimated cost is to clean up an oil spill in the worst case scenario.