Opinion

Dear Editor, With the sacking of over 7,000 Guyanese (5,000 sugar workers and nearly 2,000 Amerindian Community Support Officers) over the last two-and-a-half years it is presumed that poverty in Guyana is on the increase.

Dear Editor, We are grateful to Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan for recognising The Caribbean Voice (TCV) as a credible NGO.

Dear Editor, GAWU and Komal Chand at this time cannot desert the redundant workers when they need him and the union most.

Guyana’s agriculture sector has not shown any significant growth overall, or in its major subsectors for more than a decade.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to recent articles published in the media on the Charity Wharf and its current state of disrepair.

Dear Editor, We are distraught to learn of Mr Harmon’s comment regarding the importance of the resolving the Marudi Mountain dispute: “I can’t say that it is something that has engaged the level of Central Government as of right now.

Dear Editor, I have observed from advertisements in the press on GIPEX 2018 that the visiting time for the exhibition is two hours each day and only in the afternoon period.

Dear Editor, Who among us can ignore the very touching report by Dr Mark Devonish in yesterday’s SN about the ignominious, downright uncouth, unprofessional and utterly insensitive treatment meted out to him and his family on the occasion of the serious illness and eventual death of his young brother at the Georgetown Public Hospital (‘Sad the way the GPHC treated a terminally ill patient’ Jan 31).

Dear Editor, The General Secretary of the PPP/C and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has publicly stated that neither he nor his party has any objection to any enquiry or investigation that seeks to elicit the facts in respect of criminal activities, including those that were politically motivated and encouraged and which gave rise to political unrest and abuses, and to violations of human rights with resultant loss of property and lives.

Dear Editor, There is a concept called the Fire Triangle:  Without sufficient heat, a fire cannot continue.

Dear Editor, The word from the GRA confirmed old suspicions and settled beliefs: tens of billions lost annually through the actions of tax cheats. 

Dear Editor, I applied for a “bundles plan” with GTT for $449 in the latter part of last year at approximately 5.30 pm.

Dear Editor, In April, August and September of 2017  I was charged for 2 calls to India in April, l call to Taiwan in August and 4 calls to Taiwan in September.  

Dear Editor, Cricket, like many other sports, challenges both the body and the mind, but it is not an academic discipline.

Dear Editor, My visit to Skeldon on the 26 of January 2018, with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder and Junior Minister of Finance, Jaipaul Sharma made me realize the impact of dirty propaganda on our  people, as it creates a mindset in some, that GuySuCo could still function with the present staff to December 31, 2018.

Locals of a certain age—the ‘baby boomers’ and even those referred to as ‘Generation X’—have vivid recall of sitting at their grandparents’ feet or close by during their childhood, especially on moonlit nights, and listening to stories, some true, some made-up, about granny and grandad’s lives.

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your letter column to write about our experiences while our brother was an inpatient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

Dear Editor, With reference to correspondence dated January 22, 2018, from the Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan to Mayor of Georgetown Patricia Chase-Green and copied to Councillors, regarding “Green Spaces”, I find the Minister’s views apposite regarding the Bel Air Play Field and by extension the Farnum Play Ground.