Opinion

It is noteworthy that the government and non-governmental organisations in Guyana have come together and done a study on child neglect.

Dear Editor, The saga of the VAT on private education has not gone away and will not go away until this government sees the light of day and the unfairness of this imposition of a tax on learning. 

Dear Editor, The current legal regime, as contained in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, against the possession of small amounts of marijuana attempts to prevent a low quantum of harm to society at a very high cost.

Dear Editor, The news item ‘Ramjattan favours raising alcohol buying age to 21’ (SN, September 17) brings the topic of alcohol consumption in Guyana into focus.

Dear Editor, I have noticed that the Regional Chairman of Region Two in your letters’ column denied misuse of the Region’s vehicle assigned to him (‘It is not for the Region Two REO to determine when the Regional Chairman must use his vehicle’ SN, September 18).

Dear Editor, The temperature was 13 degrees at Chester-le-Street, but there was a full house.

Dear Editor, Held on September 10 to mark World Suicide Prevention Day, the Second Annual Anti-Violence Candlelight Vigil, saw over 50 partners organize about 200 vigils throughout Guyana.

Dear Editor,   There is definitely a sinister motive by some to discredit the soundness of Mr Hopkinson’s approach to managing the administration of Region 2.

Dear Editor, Hundreds of Guyanese (Madrassi and non-Madrassi) marched on Madrassi Day in Richmond Hill last Sunday.

Last Friday, the Minister of Security Khemraj Ramjattan broached the topic of raising the age limit from eighteen years to twenty-one years for purchasers of alcohol.

Dear Editor, There are a lot of discussions in the media regarding the privitization of sugar which is now projected in some quarters as the only remedy to pull the sugar industry out of the doldrums.

Dear Editor, It is with increasing worry that I read the story in the September 18 issue of the Stabroek News captioned ‘Hurricane-hit Guyanese in BVI face woes’.

Dear Editor, Recent events involving the interception of private messages to publicly bring someone into disrepute caused me to pause to consider the issue of privacy in this current information age.

Dear Editor,   It is indeed very heartening to read pronouncements and statements by two senior government Ministers George Norton and Khemraj Ramjattan of the need for an Alcohol Control Bill to deal with the negative and horrendous consequences of alcohol abuse in our dear land of Guyana.

Dear Editor, The media has recently been reporting on complaints from school cleaners about their conditions of work and pay.

Dear Editor, I was in the ninth grade when I decided to study economics.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) finds it incumbent to respond to Mr Gobin Harbhajan’s letter titled ‘GAWU was one of the main culprits in running down the sugar industry’ which appeared in the September 18, 2017 edition of the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor,   The 2017 paddy crop is in an advanced stage in Region Two, although there is delayed harvesting in some parts of the coast.

Dear Editor, I read with great interest Ian on Sunday’s  ‘Thinking, already, about the next general election’ (September 3, 2017).