Opinion

In today’s social media-expedited world the younger generation’s time, thoughts, and energy are so consumed with ‘staying in the know’ about a whole host of inconsequential happenings that it is cause for concern.

Dear Editor, Food security is a fundamental human right that every person deserves to have access to.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to letter captioned “The PPP/C kept their promise to reopen sugar estates” by Parshotam Ramnauth that was carried in SN on April 5.

Dear Editor, Former President, Donald Ramotar in his letter in SN April 8 “Most GuySuCo letter writers have engaged in blame shifting” in reference to the new Skeldon Factory stated, in part, that “by 2015 most of the problems were resolved by GuySuCo’s workers and management” is plainly wrong.

Dear Editor, In reference to former President Donald Ramotar’s trivializing missive, “Most GuySuCo letter writers have engaged in blame-shifting,” SN, Monday, April 08, I agree with him 100 percent, with this qualification: The blame starts with former President Bharrat Jagdeo and his nephew-in-law, former Agriculture Minis-ter Robert Persaud, and expanded over time to include Ramotar when he was PPP General Secretary.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) notes with serious concern a full page article in today’s (April 8, 2024) edition of the Guyana Times Newspaper on page 13, “Spraying Bath canals with weedicide for overgrowth destroys millions in crops”, alleging that GuySuCo is responsible for the damage caused.

Dear Editor, I write to register my strongest disapproval of your reportage of Moses Nagamootoo’s book launch; there was a marked absence of fact-checking or analysis.

Dear Editor, A letter writer suggested that homeowners should be offered grants to transition to solar power rather than remain on the GPL grid that cannot meet capacity.

Dear Editor, Last year, I penned two letters in your newspaper, one dated 22-04-2023 and the other sometime in July 2023.

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn has rightly ‘called in’ the weapons that had been allowed to the OP Security Service following the fatal shooting of a woman by one of the Com-pany’s security officers.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education recently conducted a workshop to improve literacy on ‘scholastic guided reading’.

Dear Editor, There is an old saying which goes like this, “Success has a million fathers, failure is a bastard.”

Dear Editor, In the current geopolitical landscape marked by Venezuela’s persistent rhetoric regarding the annexation of the Essequibo region of Guyana, including action taken by the President of the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela to promulgate “the Organic Law for the Defense of Guayana Esequiba” it’s intriguing to contemplate the strategic maneuvers that Niccolò Machiavelli, the renowned political philosopher, might advocate in response to such a situation.

Dear Editor, It was recently brought to light in the press that our nation doesn’t have a dedicated Ambassador in Russia.

Dear Editor, The University of Guyana wishes to advise that its Vice Chancellor, Prof.

Dear Editor, The ‘oil-minded’ are enjoying the use of a new buzzword ‘Appraisals’; they want to be told the proven oil reserves of the Stabroek Block.

Dear Editor, Mr. Eusi Kwayana’s 99th birthday was recently celebrated and I offer my belated best wishes for him to score a century and more.

Dear Editor, I felt very relieved when I read that “President Dr Irfaan Ali has pledged investments by his Government into clearing the backlog of surgeries in the public health sector with a focus on women and children.”