Opinion

Years ago, when anyone wanted to get at (or get back at) someone for a perceived wrong or as a result of envy, the trick was to find whoever the worst gossip in the community was and start a rumour.

Dear Editor,   Miners are being advised to form syndicates in order to be awarded mining lands by the government, and special concessions.

Dear Editor, First, I am neither the author of the letter in last week’s Stabroek News (‘Section M Campbellville has been forgotten’ February 24), nor one of the residents interviewed by the Stabroek News for the article appearing on February 27, but both the author and the residents have my full support.

Dear Editor, I write in response to Mr Christopher Ram‘s letter which was published in the Sunday Stabroek of February 26, under the caption, ‘If the SARA Bill is not radically restructured it will be challenged in the courts’.

Dear Editor, I refer to an article in Stabroek News on Thursday, February 2, re ‘Queenstown wash bays told to shut -city in moves to standardise sector’, which in part reports Town Clerk Royston King as stating “wash bay operations would no longer be allowed on bridges”.

Dear Editor, Since the launch of GTT’s cellphone service in the North Rupununi a couple of years ago, the quality of service has been far from perfect, but we the residents of Annai and surrounding villages were grateful because at least we could make immediate phone contact with Georgetown and Lethem and other places with access to cellphone service.

Dear Editor, I believe that Mr Lincoln Lewis is one of the most unbiased contributors to your letters column which is why I pay special attention to his letters. 

Dear Editor, The African Business Roundtable (ABR) salutes all African Guyanese entrepreneurs during Black History Month.

Dear Editor, It has come as no major surprise to us in the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, but for the first time since 1994, a Berbice junior cricket team has been selected without a club member.

Dear Editor, The recent announcement of the syndicate initiative by the Ministry of Natural Resources leaves more questions than answers for the industry. 

Dear Editor, I read about a possible third term presence and revulsion rises. 

The American President, Donald Trump’s war with the media over ‘fake news’ may be attracting the attention of the world on a daily basis, but on the other side of the globe the Kim dynasty  and their stranglehold on power in North Korea  continues to grow as it approaches its seventh decade.

Dear Editor, The New York kick-off event of the commemorative activities marking the centenary of the end of Indian indentureship takes place this Friday March 3 in New York City among the Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Caribbean diaspora and others starting with a symposium and banquet.

Dear Editor, Minister Jordan, in his letter to the editor rebutting the Stabroek News’ editorial of February 17,  opened up the possibility for the legal incidence of the 14% VAT on private education to be assumed by either the private provider or by “the consumer.” 

Dear Editor, Isn’t is rather revealing that the person most aggrieved by the imminent passage of the State Asset Recovery Bill is a lawyer and accountant of some of the largest companies in Guyana.

Dear Editor I was somewhat bemused to see the notice in SN of February 21 from the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) declaring Sunday, March 12 a public holiday in respect to the Hindu Festival of Phagwah.

Dear Editor, The trade unions are to bring security guards together with the objective of representing their interests.

Dear Editor, On December 29, 2014, the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) held its last Biennial General Meeting, when Anil Beharry of the Young Warriors Cricket Club, succeeded Keith Foster of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sport Club as President, by defeating Victor Seebarran on a vote of 22 to 16.

Dear Editor, One Sunday last year I heard a radio programme on the Fire Service whereby a senior officer was saying that he had paid a visit to Linden, and being informed of the type of system that was used by the Fire Service many years ago when it was managed by the Demerara Bauxite Company (Demba), thought it the ideal system they would like to put in place.