Opinion

Dear Editor, A front page headline in Sunday’s Kaieteur News (March 27) announces ‘Weeks after housing land deal inked…BK sells 100 acres to BaiShanLin for US$80M – now suing Chinese logger for outstanding US$4M.’

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News editorial of March 27 captioned ‘First-comers’ states, “One has the impression that the public’s familiarity with the history of this country is not as great as it used to be – all except the period since the Second World War, that is.

Dear Editor, Your editorial of Sunday, March 27, under the caption ‘First-comers’ provided a balanced and certainly less nuanced perspective on the issue of who were the first people to settle in this country.

Dear Editor, I write concerning a letter which was published in your newspaper of March 12, captioned ‘The government should immediately freeze the granting of land leases … until the reparatory land issue is addressed’ by Mr Eric Phillips on behalf of the Guyana Reparations Committee.

In what will probably be his last visit to our hemisphere before he leaves the presidency of the United States, President Obama chose two countries with which his country has sought to normalize relations, Cuba and Argentina.

Dear Editor, Ethanol (alcohol derived from sugar cane) has been used in Brazil and – Argentina for many years as an additive to gasoline to mitigate the importation cost of oil.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Despite the fact that the Ministry of Social Protection has publicly committed to establishing partnerships with state and non-state actors to deal more effectively with the investigation, treatment, management and prosecution of child sexual abuse cases, many children still do not receive the services they need, and the rate of prosecution of these cases remains abysmally low. 

Dear Editor, I have been living in Canada for 25 years.

Dear Editor, If there is one country in the Caribbean that needs a break from the epidemic of crime, it is Guyana.

Dear Editor, I read in Kaieteur News, Sunday, March 27 on page 9 that NIS were looking for prospective investment opportunities.

Dear Editor,   Below is a copy of an email I sent to the Minister of Communities eight days ago, out of concern over the damage being done to the governance of Region 9 by allegations of misconduct on the part of its Regional Executive Officer.

Dear Editor, Two things caught my attention in the Stabroek News of March 27.

Dear Editor, The March 27 Sunday Stabroek editorial entitled ‘First-comers’ is a step forward in discussing the inconvenient and hidden thrusts of Guyanese history.

Dear Editor,   Stabroek News and Kaieteur News were delivered every day.

The significance of the recently concluded local government elections is unlikely to become fully apparent for some time yet, even though the fact that after more than two decades we have, at last, been able to pull off a local government poll is in itself an accomplishment.

Dear Editor, I was happy to see in a letter in the Stabroek News, March 25 issue, entitled ‘Amerindians were not the first people on the continent’, that this discussion is finally gaining currency.

Politikles

Dear Editor, The residents of Sparta want the public to know of an intolerable issue that has been plaguing them for a number of years and which the authorities seem not to care about.

Dear Editor, Within recent times, we, at City Hall have noticed letters appearing in certain sections of the media, criticizing different aspects of our operations.