Opinion

Dear Editor, Article 127 (1) of the Constitution has featured in the news recently.

Dear Editor, It seems as though ignoring issues affecting Berbicians is becoming an accepted pattern by those in authority.

Dear Editor, After reading my own letter published in your column on December 6, within the context of the unfolding news of sugar workers being sent home, I could not stop tears coming to my eyes as I remembered my own sojourn with unemployment in Guyana for about three years after I left the central bank.

Dear Editor, In recent times the social sciences have been making a deliberate attempt at encouraging the use of an evidence based approach in responding to social problems. 

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has recognized from a newsroom report entitled ‘Fmr Gov’t Minister touts international relief fund for sugar workers’ that prominent business executive, Mr Ramesh Dookhoo, who was interviewed, is quoted to have said that the sugar unions should “focus a little more on the plight of the workers who have so far been dismissed”.

Dear Editor, I wish to reply to a letter captioned ‘I had to laugh out loud’ by George N Cave published in the KN edition of November 30, 2017.

Dear Editor, After watching the first Test between West Indies and New Zealand where the West Indies was rolled over by an innings and 67 runs by New Zealand ‒ this might sound controversial ‒ I am convinced that Jason Holder is a poor captain and should be relieved of the captaincy.

In 1991 Anita Hill became a household name when she put forward several disturbing claims of workplace harassment by US Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.

Dear Editor, The journey to the good life remains an elusive dream for retrenched sugar workers.

Dear Editor, The painting or re-painting of State House in green, the colour of APNU, has raised widespread criticism.

Dear Editor, In November 2016 and in January 2017  I wrote about the impending closure of several sugar estates, mentioning that GuySuCo had already stopped the cultivation of canes and maintenance of cane ratoons, not only in Wales, but also at Rose Hall, including Providence, West Canje, Skeldon and Enmore/LBI.

Dear Editor, The revelations of alleged sexual grooming and abuse by a teacher at one of the nation’s most venerated secondary schools, and possibly other schools spanning the better part of two decades, is a matter of grave concern to the Child Rights Alliance (CRA).

Dear Editor, As I read the media reports and listen to reactions from various sources on the current budget debates, there is this vast emptiness, this terrible resignation over what is so shamelessly unapologetically exhibited. 

Dear Editor, It has been reported that Guyana’s President David Granger is in Kenya telling people to put people before profits.

Dear Editor, I cannot agree more with the views expressed in your editorial of December 7, 2017 regarding the plight of our pensioners at post offices throughout the country.

Dear Editor, The Anna Regina office of the Ministry of Social Protection deserves tremendous praise for the  relief that was felt by hundreds of old age pensioners who had turned out at the Amerindian Hostel in Suddie to uplift their books for next year.

Dear Editor, I refer to Sports Scope: Our Opinion ‘Has the GFF exceeded its mandate?’

Dear Editor, As I travel across the Essequibo coast, there are so many people living with all sorts of disabilities.