Opinion

Dear Editor, The continuing dry season has seen a high incidence of wildfires as well as grass fires over the past months. 

Dear Editor, I applaud the recent successful work of the law officers, who were able to report that a total of 44 female foreign nationals were rescued, following a Trafficking in Persons (TIP) operation at a popular nightclub along Robb Street, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, The Peruvian scholar, Anibal Quijanio’s concept of “coloniality of power” is of great relevance to the relationship between Western academia and the Third World.

Dear Editor, For the past year, I have travelled several times from Crabwood Creek to Parika and observed the exploitation of illegal immigrants just like what happened in Trinidad during the oil boom in the 1970’s.

Dear Editor, It seems like the mission of the NIS is to frustrate contributors to the point where they do not submit claims just to avoid the unpleasantness of the process.

Last Thursday Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo added the subject of the highway sand pits to the varied list of matters he covers at his weekly encounters with the media.

Dear Editor, Re recent letters /articles in the press on GuySuCo and the Skeldon Sugar Estate SSMP, and as the Chairman of GuySuCo for the period 1993-2003, I would like to give a background to this project.

Dear Editor,  Recent reports on the (1) murders of a popular gold miner, Mr.

Dear Editor, It has been months since I have written on the plight of our senior artists.

Dear Editor, We seemed to be embroiled with another contentious matter about the rights and wrongs of the Qatari Hotel.

Dear Editor, The Indo-Caribbean Federation held its bi-annual election last Sunday to choose its executives to run the affairs of the organization for the next two years.

Dear Editor, Since 2018 under the APNU+AFC coalition to now, Guyana has been downgraded from the status of an “electoral democracy” that is descending towards ‘autocratization’ (authoritarian rule under a strong man) based on a new report released by the Gothenburg-based V-Dem Institute that tracks democratic freedoms worldwide.

Every three years, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) administers its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which measures the performance of 15-year-old students in mathematics, science and reading as a means of evaluating the global education system in order to decipher its gains and failings and the areas where more work needs to be done.

Dear Editor, At last some positive movement on the Haiti crisis. 

Dear Editor, I have noticed news reports, on my actions with respect to the Cease Work Notice, in at least two of our dailies, the Kaieteur News issue of Tuesday, March 12, 2024 headlined: “City Hall issues stop order to Qatari Hotel” and the Stabroek News issue of Tuesday, March 12, 2024 headlined: “Mayor blasts City Engineer for not issuing cease order on Qatari Hotel works -says court action imminent” However, those reports contained a number of inaccuracies, which if not corrected, could mislead readers, and create the wrong impression about the work and intention of the City Engineer’s Department.

Dear Editor, On Sunday night I was privileged to attend Musings of a Poet – 2 at the Cultural Centre, produced by the National Drama Company and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, written by Al Creighton Jnr.,

Dear Editor, I travelled to Charity, Essequibo this week-end, in time for its traditional Monday Market Day to reach out to residents and shoppers with affordable laptop technologies I embarked on making accessible especially for school children.