Opinion

Dear Editor, The Mabaruma sub-regional hospital (Barima-Waini) is desperately in need of medicines to treat patients bitten by scorpions and snakes, since it is a hinterland hospital.

Dear Editor, While some sections of the population find the term ‘negro’ is a proper descriptor for Guyanese of African descent, it would be useful for the state institutions to update their lexicon given our history, the socio-cultural context and the cohesive society we aspire to build.

Dear Editor, As a child, my friends and I walked and played in drains which were concrete and free from grass, wild eddoes, mud and garbage. 

Dear Editor, This government has found itself in hot water with the international media community on the passage of the Broadcasting Bill, and it will continue to find itself in such a dilemma with other stakeholders when it makes decisions without regard to its constitutional responsibility.

Dear Editor, I attended a rehearsal for Carifesta on Monday evening, at the National Cultural Centre.

Dear Editor, All four daily newspapers in their Wednesday, August 9, 2017 editions carried articles on President David Granger’s request for the Police Service Commission to put on hold police officers’ promotions.

Dear Editor,   I thank Mr Sookram Persaud for his letter, ‘Albion produced ethanol until mid-2015’ (SN, August 9). 

Dear Editor, There can be no denying that a free media is essential to democracy in Guyana.

Dear Editor,   The Caribbean Voice notes an article in a section of the local media in which PAHO’s Dr Adu-Krow, is quoted as saying that the suicide rate in Guyana has  “plummeted to 20.6 per 100,000 people.”

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter with the hope that some assistance from the new APNU+AFC government could he rendered to our Yarrowkabra Housing Group.

Dear Editor, There has been scathing criticism of REO Mr Rupert Hopkinson’s slothfulness in addressing financial matters in Region Two.

Dear Editor The call by a letter writer for the restoration of the original broadcast duration of the ‘Basil P Show’  (ie 18:00 – 00:00 hrs)  is testimony to the popularity of this programme from its inception more than a decade ago (‘Why has the Basil ‘P’ Show been cut short?’

Dear Editor, ‘Gatlin beating Bolt nightmare for sport’ was the headline of Damien Cox’s piece in the Toronto Star on August 8.

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For at least a decade, if not longer, waste disposal in the city has been operating on a teetering pile of debt, which the average citizen knows is not a good thing.

Dear Editor, As one of the principal contributors to the shaping of the Broadcasting Amendment Bill (BAB) of 2017 I think it is necessary that I add my voice in an effort to proffer added context to the current debate surrounding its recent passage.

Dear Editor, I apologise unequivocally for implicating Mr Yarde in the presentation made by the Vice-President of the GPSU, which I observed through my obviously blinkered vision of the TV programme.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr E B John’s letter to SN, of August 3, titled ‘Letter was full of assumptions’.

Dear Editor, With the passing of the controversial Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill it seems as if the government, any government, would get to broadcast propaganda to the Guyanese people for free in the private media on a daily basis.