Opinion

Dear Editor, The PetroCaribe deal that facilitated the export of rice to Venezuela as a form of payment for fuel imported from Venezuela is an avenue that should be pursued as the highest priority.

Dear Editor, Three headlines, all in one edition of Stabroek News attracted my attention: ‘Interesting times?’

Dear Editor, I noticed that in a recent release, re the now infamous pharmaceutical award to ANSA McAl, that “officials” from the Public Health Ministry (MoPH) have been quoted as saying that many of the drugs which are imported and supplied come from ‘Third World’ countries.

Dear Editor, I read the caption of the story ‘Charlestown youth sentenced to prison for marijuana possession’, and then I read the accused got more than two years in jail for having in her possession 4 ozs of Cannabis.

Dear Editor, According to a BBC Report, some twenty million people in four African countries run the risk of death from starvation due mainly to political instability and conflicts.

Dear Editor, I learnt that the rice magnate Mr Turhane Doerga of the Alesie Rice Group is shutting shop after 25 years in the rice and paddy business.

Dear Editor, The leadership of this country has no vision, plan or competence to bring this country to a state of prosperity.

On June 19, 2016, the Sunday Stabroek editorialised as follows on the deal to establish paid parking here.

Dear Editor, I have been observing the selfless acts of community development by the Women of Substance Organization.

Dear Editor, In his epic work, Omeros, Derek Walcott wrote of “a quiet culture that…slowly but sure … will change us with the fluent sculpture of Time” – “strong as self-healing coral.”

Dear Editor, The letter in SN titled ‘The Auditor General must focus on Gecom’s heavily padded payroll’, dated March 15, 2017 was another example of a malicious missive against Gecom and the people who work within the organisation.

Dear Editor, It is not uncommon in many societies for blame to be placed on the individual who left the cheese to be eaten by the mouse and not make an effort to get rid of the mouse.

The month of March marks the centenary of the end of Indian indentureship.

Dear Editor, Well, after resitting, only 23 of the 179 candidates secured overall passes at the Nurses State Final Examination. 

Dear Editor, Careful analysis of the decision of the honourable Ian Chang, Chief Justice (acting), does appear to confirm that our learned Chief Justice (acting) reached his determination in Cedric Richardson v Attorney General of Guyana & Raphael Trotman by a finding that Act No.

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News of March 16, it was reported that representatives of the Chinese company, Hong Kong Golden Telecom Limited (HDGT), were in Guyana and recently put forward a proposal for payment of the outstanding US$5 million for the sale of the 20% shares of GTT owned by government.

Dear Editor, To correct Allan Fenty’s statements made in his SN column of March 17, 2017, under the sub-head ‘Rights, voices beyond the bound-yard’: it is the Indians who subsume their ethnic identity to the African Caribbean culture who exhibit triumphalism, snobbery and superiority at being both accepted and embraced by the dominant status quo; and it is the very poor rural Indian Guyanese who continue to practise their religion and culture, remembered from Mother India, who most need to be protected and defended.

Dear Editor, Transparency and accountability in the public procurement process was perhaps the most fundamental issue on the political platform of the APNU+AFC when they were in the opposition.