Opinion

Dear Editor, I happen to be travelling in India. I am at a location in Varanasi 200-300 yards from a major Ghatt site on the Ganga (Ganges river) where each evening an Aarti ceremony is performed for two weeks preceding the Holi festival.

Dear Editor, Sugar production at the end of 2017 was 138,070 tonnes, the lowest since Hoyte took action to stem the free fall in sugar production under the PNC in the late 1980s when production hit rock bottom at 129,920 tonnes. 

We are reprinting the first part of this letter, and including the second part which was not published because it did not arrive in our email inbox for technical reasons.

Dear Editor, It seems obvious that there are some people who are unable to cope with the stress of office.

Dear Editor, After bungling their respective portfolios in the oil and sugar sectors, the holders of these portfolios are being relieved and their responsibilities shunted off to other agencies.

Dear Editor, The headline that caused me grave dismay was, ‘Exxon Contract ‒ Final –Harmon’, published in Stabroek News and dated February 23, 2018.

For some years Guyana held the dubious distinction of being the suicide capital of the world by virtue of a staggering suicide rate of just about 44 persons per 100,000 in 2012.

Dear Editor, As I travel around India from Delhi to Madya Pradesh to Rajasthan to Gujarat to Mumbai to Uttar Pradesh and to Bihar, and indeed all across northern India, people are celebrating or making preparations to celebrate Holi.

Dear Editor, As an invitee to the symposium that was held at Moray House on February 27, 2018 and despite my enormous time constraint, I attended because the discussion was focusing on the ‘Strategies for Economic Revival in Region 6’.

Dear Editor, Please refer to a letter captioned ‘Old people were given a $6,000 pension increase per year and Council wants $10,400 for garbage collection’.

Dear Editor, We residents of the blocks of Barrack and Duke Streets, wish to bring to your attention the following matters; though late in the day, they are still pertinent to our peace and tranquillity.

Dear Editor, I read your recent editorial on Agriculture in our country and the much needed input from central government across the spectrum for safe and meaningful development.

Dear Editor. The Guyana Police Force is refuting an article in today’s edition of the Kaieteur News under the caption ‘Commander removed as investigation into harassment launched.’

Dear Editor, A 50 member Guyanese delegation from the diaspora in the United States has ended a week-long people to people visit to Cuba during which they enjoyed the open friendship and warm hospitality of the Cuban people.

Dear Editor, An article captioned ‘Major fallout at Bar Council’ that was published in the February 28, 2018 edition of the Guyana Chronicle, detailed multiple resignations of executive members of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA).

Dear Editor, The inner compass of all people usually directs the soul towards justice. 

During last week, two government officials were reported speaking on fighting hunger and malnutrition in Guyana.