Opinion

Workplace safety

Workplace safety incidents have been an issue in Guyana for a number of years, a consequence of employers and employees not following safety guidelines, but the burden of responsibility mostly rests on employers who, in the pursuit of profits, do so at the expense of the health and safety of their workers.

Army should be involved in crime-fighting

Dear Editor, A few days before Attorney General Basil Williams told newsmen in Georgetown that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is to be completely separated from the Guyana Police Force so that it can perform its core functions, lawyers and former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) senior officers in the diaspora were discussing the possibility for the role of the GDF be modified so that the army can assist in investigations and other crime-solving activities.

Some right things but wrong context

Dear Editor, As one reads the article titled ‘Chand says cooperation needed to resist any bid to reprivatize sugar’ that was published in the Sunday Stabroek on August 28, one gets the impression that Mr Komal Chand is saying some of the right things but in the wrong context.

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