Opinion

Dear Editor, As the plot thickens with the ‘obsolete bulldozer’ saga more revelations and questions have emerged.

Dear Editor, A worrying trend is beginning to develop in Guyana. 

Dear Editor, I expected more organizations and individuals to castigate professionals and the Ministry of Agriculture who retrenched sugar workers.

Dear Editor, It is a special blessing for me to have known brother Dr Martin Boodhoo.

As of January 1, 2018, the minimum wage in the province of Ontario, Canada was raised from $11.60 per hour to $14.00, by the current provincial government.

Dear Editor, Writing in 1968, Gordon K Lewis, historian and political scientist, described Guyana as “a fascinating complex of strident paradoxes”.

Dear Editor, President Granger as the leader of the Government of Guyana is ultimately responsible for re-negotiating the contract with ExxonMobil, a contract which will see Guyana missing out on earning well in excess of US$10 billion more or over $2 trillion Guyana dollars more in revenue.

Dear Editor, In 1991, my first year of five in Jamaica, I recall the churches of Jamaica expressing their concern about carnival which was classified as having “too much flesh.”

Dear Editor, In relation to the newest Ranger-1 well announced a few days ago, it was said in an SN article: “It has more than 230-ft of high-quality, oil bearing carbonate reservoir which is now being described as the single largest find in the (Stabroek) Block.

Dear Editor, Having regard to the continuing references being made to the recommendations of the CoI into the sugar industry which is very topical again in view of the imminent widespread loss of employment of thousands of our fellow Guyanese, etc, etc, we, Mr Vibert Parvatan and I, would like to suggest that you seriously consider reproducing salient parts of the findings and recommendations of the CoI in your daily publications.

Dear Editor, The editorial ‘Garbage rates’ (SN, Jan 7) was as pointed as it was relevant with lots of pertinent questions for the Town Clerk to consider.

Dear Editor, It is early days in the New Year and already there are things that alarm or amuse; sometimes they bring both. 

More than three decades after southern Africa put the travails of white minority rule behind it the liberation movements in the region continue to dominate the region’s politics, having transformed themselves into structured political parties and captured what they considered to be the ultimate reward for their military and political struggles ‒ the state.

Dear Editor, In response to a letter I wrote on natural gas development in Guyana (SN, Jan 3), Minister of Public Infrastructure (MPI), David Patterson claimed in a letter to Stabroek News on Jan 4, that I had presented a distorted perspective on the vision and use of natural gas for Guyana (‘Government engaged in studies for a gas pipeline as a means to complement use of renewable energy’).

Dear Editor, This contribution is submitted because of my examination of the Enmore district, which includes Foulis, and which I feel is a microcosm of the wider Guyana.

Dear Editor, On behalf of the now dormant University of Guyana Guild of Graduates, Ontario, please allow me to express deepest sympathy to the wife, children and relatives of Dr Martin Boodhoo, one of the most outstanding graduates of the University of Guyana (UG), who passed away on Christmas Day (December 25, 2017) in Manchester, England.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the article captioned, ‘City to charge residents garbage collection fee’ (SN, January 6). 

Dear Editor, The community of Linden, Region Ten, the PNCR family and the immediate family, have lost a phenomenal woman in Ms Sandra Adams.