Dear Editor, Reading the newspapers literally and sometimes, between the lines, one cannot help concluding that there is a psychosis of fear, relating to the expectation on the part of people of some negative impact, real or imagined, against their interest.
Dear Editor, In 1964, Forbes Burnham said, “this government holds that all the people of this country are equally important…” Burnham’s speech was not as eloquent or as fantastic a speech as Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech of 1947 titled the ‘Tryst with Destiny’, but it was good enough to clarify an important principle that all our people are equally important, as spelt out in our Constitution.
Dear Editor, With reference to articles published in the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News on May 17 and titled ‘Berbicians in big protest’ and ‘Business people, pensioners, taxi drivers join massive protests’, respectively; while on the one hand the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) would like to applaud the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) for its noteworthy ability to mobilize a large cross section of the public around issues in the sugar industry, the corporation has concluded that the union has lost its way as a workers’ representative organisation and seems to have as its priority advocating and mobilizing around another cause.
Dear Editor, It is now two years since the APNU regime took power in Guyana.
Dear Editor, It is an interesting contrivance, that is appointing the 30 year re-elected Chairman of the Guyana Public Service Union (albeit in controversial circumstances) to act as Chairman of the employer agency, namely the (Guyana) Public Service Commission.
Dear Editor, Every suicide is a tragedy that should not be sensationalized.
On March 18, 2016, the APNU+AFC government delivered on its pledge to convene local government elections which had not been held since 1994.
Dear Editor, The latter captioned ‘Could Mr Ram lead the DDL shareholders in taking the matter of dividend size further forward?’
Dear Editor, Long before the just concluded meeting of Caricom Foreign Ministers in Barbados there must have been intense lobbying by some large and influential member states of the OAS in the capitals of Caricom member states, including Georgetown.
Dear Editor, Recently news emerged of the Guyana government intervention in the stone supply contract on the CJIA expansion project involving state-owned Grassalco of Suriname, China Harbour Engineering, (CHEC) Toolsie Persaud Limited, and BK International.
From the photographs which have been published in the press, the Kato Secondary School in Region 8 appears an unprepossessing enough edifice.
Dear Editor, I wish to refer to a letter titled, ‘It is the House not the Speaker which has the power to remove a motion from the Order Paper’, from Ms Gail Teixeira in the May 17th issue of your newspaper.
Dear Editor, No one can sensibly dispute that an independent and effective judiciary is not only the sine qua non of any democracy, but it is the very foundation upon which the edifice of civil society rests.
Dear Editor; Wasn’t Hatree Partners, founded by the Hess Corporation? Is the Hess Corporation a 30% stakeholder in the ExxonMobil project?
Dear Editor, Not so long ago radio in Guyana was totally controlled by government, and I recall a period when the mixture of programming was well balanced and offered something for everyone, although one’s favourites were at times much too short.
In 1978 the writer John McPhee began a series of journeys across the United States to inspect rock formations along the 40th parallel, and to meet the geologists who examined and interpreted them.
Dear Editor, There is the question I must answer quickly about the upcoming Indian tour.
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