Opinion

Dear Editor, The letter by Mr Hamilton Green in the media yesterday which rightly lamented the importation of foreign fruits grown abundantly in Guyana appealed to my passion as kitchen gardener and cane farmer; it also resonated with my belief that our national educational programmes must extend beyond the liberal arts and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) to ‘Steam’ by adding ‘agriculture’ to the mnemonic ‘stem’ acronym.

Dear Editor, The public must, by now, be accustomed to the curious and uncanny habit of Attorney-General, Mr Basil Williams, to blame the “previous administration” or the “former AG”, or both, whenever he finds himself in a conundrum on any given issue.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Fatima Karim on what can only be described as an enormous achievement.

Dear Editor, After World War II, the model of community development which prevailed depended largely on outside experts and resources.

Dear Editor,   One of the major industries in Guyana will be tourism.

Dear Editor, Mind over matter is how the article on sports psychology by Simon Hughes in the latest edition of the Cricketer magazine is described.

A triple-double sounds more like an ice-cream order than the summary of a sprinter’s Olympic career – but that is what Usain Bolt achieved two nights ago, shortly after the evening drizzle eased up in Rio.

Politikles

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) refers to those comments attributed to the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) on page 12 and 22 of the August 17, 2016 edition of Stabroek News in which the corporation asserted that no letters were received from the union requesting that GuySuCo engage GAWU on a number of issues.

Dear Editor, It burned my heart when I read in your Thursday issue that our national Junior Table Tennis team may not make it to the Caribbean Champion-ships because of lack of funds.

Dear Editor, The recent press release from the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) needs to be read and understood in a national perspective. 

Dear Editor, The 2016 CSEC results are out, and The Marian Academy did spectacularly, all things considered. 

Dear Editor, Qualifying for a final of any kind at the Olympic level to my mind is a great accomplishment.

Dear Editor, As a working-class law student who has just completed my three years at the University of Guyana, Law Department, I cannot allow the recent achievement of Minister of Legal Affairs/ Attorney General Basil Williams to go unheralded.

Politikles

Dear Editor, We are seeing that too much hatred and anger now exists in the society, either due to the general situation of dissatisfaction that humanity is experiencing, or because we are overwhelmed by a profound crisis of civilization, without anyone telling us how to overcome it or where this flight into the darkness will take us.

One year before the 2015 general elections were held, few Guyanese might have been familiar with the name ‘Sandra Granger’.

Dear Editor, I am a rice farmer of Hague Settlement on the West Coast Demerara in Region 3.

Dear Editor, I always preferred the AFC as the party to run the affairs of Guyana. 

Dear Editor, Reading Letitia August’s story, ‘See the ability and not the disability’ in the Sunday, August 14, Kaieteur News, sent shivers down my spine.