Opinion

Dear Editor, Over the past two years, I have had cause to lament, incessantly, about the comatose state in which the Guyana Bar Association and the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers, in particular, and to a lesser extent, organizations such as the Red Thread and the Guyana Human Rights Association seemed to have plummeted.

Dear Editor, We refer to Mr Eric Phillips’ letter captioned ‘GAWU is not interested in a win-win situation’ appearing in the May 31, Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, Herstelling is a highly dysfunctional place. Residents in this neighbourhood are not thinking clearly and are engaging in gross dysfunction that can escalate into serious problems.

In the book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth the environmentalist Mark Hertsgaard states that: “humanity has two options for containing temperature rise.

Dear Editor, I welcome the statement issued recently by the Women & Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) calling for the repeal of archaic and discriminatory laws.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has noted a letter appearing in your Monday, May 29 edition by Mr Ganga Persaud titled ‘Rice farmers are being exploited by millers’ and wish to make the following clarification: The GRDB is a semi-autonomous agency under the Ministry of Agriculture that regulates and provides services to the rice industry.

Dear Editor, Many hopeful citizens are extremely upset with the Ministry of Communities right now. 

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to the letter ‘Was Jagan a communist?’

Dear Editor, I write this letter today to remind your readers of a few modern day unsung heroes who battle an epidemic that continues to ravage Guyana and indeed, the world.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to an article in the Stabroek News dated Monday, May 29, with the caption, ‘Appointment of Deputy REO of Region Three questioned.’

Dear Editor, Recently, the media has been carrying debates and commentaries on several issues surrounding the education and training of aspirants in the critical field of nursing; major factors seem to include methodical aspects such as the formal academic attainment of students, the size of classes, teachers lacking the necessary clinical preparation, teaching aids, computers, etc, coupled with the usual ‘finger pointing’ to other persons, programmes and facilities so typical of our compatriots.

Dear Editor, Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee Chairman, Mr Irfaan Ali and his colleague Mr Juan Edghill were very disrespectful towards the CEO of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Mr Allan Johnson, who appeared before them on Monday to answer questions pertaining to the GPHC financial audit for the year 2015-16.

It would be safe to say, given the low population of Guyana, that domestic violence has become a major scourge of this nation, contributing, along with suicide and wanton criminality to a loss of ethos.

Dear Editor, It continues to irritate me when I read stories like the one relating to an SUV which is allegedly using a false number plate and is able to get away with it because the owner is a powerful government contractor.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter carried in your newspaper, ‘Plantain chip factory at Leguan not feasible’ (May 28), in which the writer Charles Sohan predicts that the factory will be another “white elephant” and concludes that the project “has been born in the chequered development annals of the present Administration…” I wish to inform the public, in particular Mr Sohan, that this project actually began in 2014 and was conceived under the previous administration.

Dear Editor, Amerindians mining for their daily subsistence in Chenapau and the surrounding area is nothing new.

Dear Editor, With regard to the photograph of Minister of Public Health alongside the Mayor of Georgetown cutting the ribbon to reopen the Albouystown Health Centre in today’s edition, I am struck to ask whether it would not have been more prudent, more appropriate, more apt to have had the councillor representative of Albouystown do the honours?

Dear Editor, I refer to the article titled, ‘ICE arrests illegal Guyanese man in NY’ (SN, May 31).