Friday’s meeting on the future of the sugar industry between the government and the two unions, GAWU and NAACIE is a heartening development and must lead to substantive options for the thousands of dislocated workers and a viable plan for the remaining estates.
Dear Editor, United States President Donald Trump has completed his first year in office.
Dear Editor, Minister Trotman is reported (18th Jan) as stoutly defending ExxonMobil’s investment here.
Dear Editor, “We, the under-signed representatives of the sovereign people of the Caribbean hereby declare that President Donald Trump of the United States of America is ‘Persona Non Grata’ in our Caribbean region.
Dear Editor, It may not be a case of long awaited sanity coming to the fore here in Guyana, but of good old common sense prevailing.
Dear Editor, For ten years now the access roads and cross streets at the front compound of the housing scheme at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice have been neglected.
The pesky parking meters are back in the news again, although they are really symptomatic of a more profound problem where the city council is concerned.
Dear Editor, In response to a few queries concerning the questionable voting by Sunil Rasul, who has cast his personal vote in support of the parking meter contract, I wish to make it pellucidly clear that Rasul has been occupying the council seat illegally since November of 2017, and without the support of Team Benschop.
Dear Editor, On the last four occasions and as recently as January 18th, 2018, whilst an outgoing passenger at Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, I was asked to open my locks so that someone could run their hands through my hair.
Dear Editor, I was the victim of a shooting incident that occurred in front of my Zorg business premises in Region 2 some time ago.
Dear Editor, I was elated that our Commissioner of Police (ag), Mr David Ramnarine announced that his detectives had solved 77% of the murders or 88 cases out of 116.
Dear Editor, Our union was bemused after it read that Agriculture Minister Noel Holder is being quoted in the January 16, 2018 Kaieteur News as saying that “in 1992, GuySuCo had nine estates and 38,000 workers”.
Dear Editor, A report on page 14 of the Sunday edition of the Guyana Times (Jan 14) captioned ‘50% severance payment not enough –GTUC’ refers.
Dear Editor, Reference is made to a news item captioned ‘Ramotar claims gov’t ignored promised India loans for sugar industry’ (SN, Jan 16).
Dear Editor, Imran Khan wanted to know why the Indian government invited the 20 opposition parliamentarians to India.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) writes in response to a letter published in the Kaieteur News on January 15, and in the Stabroek News on January 16 titled ‘GWMO needs to hold an AGM’ by M Higgins.
Henry David Thoreau famously lamented that the majority of us “lead lives of quiet desperation” and harbour unconscious despair “under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.”
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