Opinion

Dear Editor, There was an interesting discourse in a Stabroek News letter of Thursday, July 20, 2017 on the subject if ethanol, remarkable for its disconnected reasoning, and admitted assumptions (Why did GuySuCo not pursue the ethanol option?’).

Dear Editor, The new broadcast bill comes across not so much as an attempt to protect the public interest as is being presented by government, but as the intent to intimidate and control broadcasters.

Dear Editor, Over the past six months the quality of the GTT telephone and internet service has been very poor in the entire Berbice area.

Dear Editor, GTT has been a noted partner in the area of communication for many decades in this country.

Dear Editor, The previous administration was heavily criticized following audit reports on substandard work undertaken by many contractors in Region 2, that it condoned.

Dear Editor, After reading the missive captioned ‘There is need for affirmative action to correct structural changes facing African Guyanese’ by David Hinds (SN, August 1), one may ask, will there come a time when the African is perceived as truly emancipated?

Dear Editor, As a little boy growing up in the island of Wakenaam, I often listened to the gaff of my late nana (grandfather) and his friend, the late David of Great Troolie Island, while they drank a cut-down or flattie Russian Bear rum, rolling and smoking their Capstan cigarettes in the late ʼ50s.

Tobacco smoke clings to hair, clothing, carpets, curtains, even furniture; it lingers in a room like an unwanted guest long after its host, the smoker, extinguishes the offending cigarette or cigar and stays after the host leaves.

Dear Editor, There are some positive things happening in Guyana that we don’t seem to hear about, or are reminded of.

Dear Editor, In relation to your editorial, `Dialogue and the Trini example’ (SN Jul 24), I endorse your call for collaboration between the opposition and government in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Congratulations are in order to Digicel for running off their National Secondary Schools’ Football Championship successfully once again.

Astor Cinema opened in the 1940s with the screening of Golden Boy with William Holden and Barbara Stanwyck in the lead roles, and drew the curtains on June 30, 2013, with the showing of a double, Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds and Sparkle. It was the last of the city cinemas to survive the passage of time, battling through the tough decades of the 70s’ and 80s’ shortage of foreign exchange required to pay distributors for movie rights, unreliable electricity supply, declining audiences...

Dear Editor, Over a long span of time, I have observed an increasingly settled local phenomenon. 

Dear Editor, With all the drama of the Camp Street prison fire, jailbreak, pasture prison, tarmac prison, brick prison, Lusignan prisoners and security at war, prisoners shot and still no solution, I am hoping to see my son alive.

Dear Editor, As a dedicated and humble logger from the Essequibo Coast, I write to express grave concerns about the rights of small loggers in our country.

Dear Editor, In almost every policy of this administration and in almost every Bill tabled in the National Assembly, one can easily discern some element of authoritarianism.

Dear Editor Almost eighteen decades after emancipation, the general condition of African Guyanese is not as encouraging as one would want it to be.

Dear Editor, Here was the Vice-President of the Guyana Public Service Union on TV belabouring the fact that government was not disposed to negotiate with that union salary increases (and outdated allowances) retroactive to 2016.