Dear Editor, The organizing Committee of Voices Against Violence National Candlelight Vigil acknowledges the support of Dr Carl Niamatali: “The GCPS will be pleased to attend the candlelight vigil because we believe that it is better to light a candle than lament the darkness.
Dear Editor, It is to me a ludicrous situation that in this ‘civilised’ age we should even have a debate about the justification of the death penalty.
Dear Editor, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has advised the leadership of the US Democratic Party not to go over the edge while trying to discover Russia’s involvement in the hacker attacks on its computers.
Dear Editor, There is nothing new under the sun. Man has walked the face of the earth for thousands of years, and we as humans beings never seem to learn from the history of human achievements or inhuman behaviour.
Given the entrenched ethno-political polarisation in the country and the willingness of any number of politicians to exploit this, it is no surprise that there have been shrill declarations recently about discrimination against Indo-Guyanese and other ills.
Dear Editor, I write on the issue of a recent statement made by the Minister of Agriculture on the electronic media that rice farmers across the country suffered only a paltry 4% losses following the El Niño dry-weather rice crop.
Dear Editor, May I join the many Guyanese and organizations that paid tribute to the Reverend Bishop George.
Cases involving illegal immigration usually slide by without attracting much public attention, but that was not so last week.
Dear Editor, My attention has been drawn to a letter from Mr EB John under the headline ‘Public Service Commission has always been the constitutional authority for approving the employment of public servants’ in SN of Thursday, July 28, which I have now read.
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Dear Editor, Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton and the Minister of Social Protection, Ms Volda Lawrence are very happy with the recent pronouncement with regard to the six-months maternity leave benefit for all working mothers which will bring Guyana in line with PAHO’s guidelines.
Dear Editor, I have relatives resident in Essequibo who located jobs and developed businesses in Venezuela during the hard times here.
Dear Editor, Once again it is Emancipation time; it is once more the season of introspections, reflections of sorts, reminiscing, and above all cultural and festive activities for people of African descent.
Dear Editor, I write to express my gratitude to your newspaper on behalf of Digital Technology for publishing a letter on Friday, July 22, regarding a leaning sign in front of our premises at Diamond.
Dear Editor, Large gatherings planned by the Guyanese diaspora in the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom have brought thousands of Guyanese together for one day and in one space, reuniting villagers, families, friends and neighbours.
Dear Editor, It is with deep sorrow that I received the news that distinguished Guyanese economist Prof Bishnodat Persaud, a resident of the UK, has passed away.
Dear Editor, The people who control West Indies cricket have lost all pride.
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion,” said US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan a generation ago, “but not his own facts.”
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