Opinion

Dear Editor, On Thursday 14th December, I attended the Annual Christmas Lunch held for the veterans of the GDF.

Dear Editor, The President and Volunteers at Furever Hope Alive Animal Shelter & Rescue have organized a march to raise awareness regarding animal suffering and animal rights amongst fellow Guyanese.

Dear Editor, As concerned citizens, we read with interest the Stabroek News Editorial of the 15th December, 2023 titled ‘Mango Landing’.

Dear Editor, Much has been written on the senior citizens pension on both sides of the argument — in favour and critical of how it is being distributed.

Sitting across the Hudson River from its far larger and more affluent neighbour, the city of Newark, the nation’s third oldest, and the largest in New Jersey, is rebirthing with splendour.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago two men in Berbice were arrested in possession of fireworks.

Dear Editor, Paragraph 9 in its current iteration should not have been accepted by Guyana.

Dear Editor, Editor, I accept that GHK Lall tortures the English language but does not get it to reveal its meaning so I could be misinterpreting his pejorative letter of the 10th December describing the distribution of the $25,000 cash grant to pensioners.

Dear Editor,  A picture tells a thousand words and more.  The firm handshake and averted eyes by the Venezuelan President when meeting President Ali conveys an awkward President Maduro as compared to a composed and in control President Ali looking directly at his adversary, daring him to meet his eyes.

Dear Editor, ‘The Presidents of Venezuela and Guyana, Nicholas Maduro and Irfaan Ali met in St Vincent and the Grenadines today under the chairmanship of Ralph Gonsalves the Prime Minister of SVG  and the current chair of CELAC.

Dear Editor, I am profoundly shocked, saddened and extremely concerned about the attempt on the life of Mr.

Those of us who live on the coast probably have very little idea of what goes on in some of our border regions. 

Dear Editor,  The news about the meeting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines this week brokered by Brazilian President Lula, to be held under the auspices of the Chairpersons of CELAC and CARICOM, with President Lula’s foreign affairs Adviser, the respected former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and the Jamaican Chef de Cabinet in the UNSG’s office present, aligns with my own sense of optimism I have been maintaining throughout, that good sense would prevail.

Dear Editor, As an economist, I look at the current standoff between Guyana and Venezuela as an opportunity for rapprochement.

Dear Editor, Given the fundamental illegality of Maduro’s actions which clearly repudiates international law, his disputed legitimacy as Venezuela’s leader given the widespread allegations of electoral misfeasance surrounding his grip on power, the myriad questions revolving around the legitimacy of the recent Venezuela referendum, the fact that Guyana has openly and rightly stated that it is the ICJ and nothing else that will determine Essequibo question, strong and justified international support for Guyana as a victim due to Venezuela’s recent actions and conduct, our vastly strategic oil importance and the recent UN chiding of Venezuela, President Ali should not, I repeat should not, meet Maduro under any conditions whatsoever.

Dear Editor, Whatever Venezuelan president Maduro may say he wants to concede in talks with President Ali, he should not be believed, even under a white flag.

Dear Editor, I am pressed to respond to the “analysis” of a certain Joel Bhagwandin who, like the PPP more broadly, seems tragically unaware that Guyana is an oil producer with skyrocketing production.

Dear Editor, The sugar cane plant Saccharum Officinarum has been hybridized and bred as an annual plant i.e.