Opinion

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter carried in Stabroek News of Wednesday, September 21 captioned ‘There is a shortage of essential drugs in Region 5’ by Mr Harry Gill.

Dear Editor, Upper Hadfield Street, between Vlissingen Road and Mandela Avenue, was recently repaired and resurfaced after being in a deplorable state for several months.

Dear Editor, We are in a dismal state considering that we don’t have systems in place to protect our basic rights.

Dear Editor, On Saturday, September 3, 2016 I was a passenger on the 6 am ferry from Supenaam to Parika, when shortly before departure time a party of policemen from ‘G’ Division, some in plain clothes and others in uniform boarded the ferry and conducted a search for a wanted man. 

Dear Editor, There is tremendous public pressure on the current administration to deliver more jobs and higher wages in the public sector. 

Dear Editor, This is an unedited extract from the UK Economist which will be of interest to your readers who are contemplating how Guyana will manage its potential oil revenues.

Dear Editor, Choosing to kill oneself can happen to anyone: young or old, poor or rich, educated or illiterate, doctors and dock workers, Indian-African-Amerindian, male or female.  

Dear Editor, America’s writers are its conscience. William Faulkner, one of America’s greatest writers, states that the American Civil War was the price it had to pay for the sin of slavery. 

Dear Editor, The economic and social development of Guyana is dependent on our desire to work together in cohesion and utilize our great untapped natural resources for the prosperity of all Guyanese.

It has been just about one week now since the Traffic Department of the GPF commenced ‘Operation Safeway,’ in conjunction with the Ministry of Public Infrastructure and the National Road Safety Council, aimed at achieving a marked reduction in road deaths through increased national awareness of road safety matters, a heightened police presence on the roads and the stringent application of the laws.

Dear Editor, Writing in the Nation newspaper of Barbados last Sunday, Fazeer Mohammed has used a very broad brush of misinformation in attempting to dilute the importance of having a forensic audit into the affairs of WICB. 

Dear Editor, I write to dispel a rumour going around Region 9 that the Annual Heritage Celebrations scheduled for September 22 to 24, at the St Ignatius Benab, have been cancelled.

Dear Editor, Since last year October I noticed that sand  trucks are carrying out from Palmer Street, La Grange, West Bank Demerara 10-15 loads of dirt per day up to 10 pm at night, and no one knows who authorized this or who is receiving money for this activity and why.

Dear Editor, Re the city council notice on page 25 of Stabroek News, September  1 – let’s have  a reality check.

Dear Editor, I am a resident who has been living in Bartica for over 25 years.

Dear Editor, It is good to have an apology from Pandit Deodatt Tillack, about the insensitive comments he made regarding our Amerindian people.

Dear Editor, Did Guyana ever fully recover from the boycotting of the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games by former president LFS Burnham?

Dear Editor, Having read Mr Pat Dial’s column in the Sunday Chronicle (September 11) regarding the causes of accidents and recommendations, I was left breathless for a second or two.

Dear Editor, Here is a somewhat disturbing state of affairs as it relates to a trained teacher who has been assigned to a school in another region away from where he lives.