Opinion

Dear Editor, With limited international relations resources at our disposal at home and our missions abroad, we have done relatively well over the last few months to rally support on our side on the border controversy.

Dear Editor, President Irfaan Ali is attending the meeting hosted by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves with the support and blessings of the entire nation and that of CARICOM and the international community.

In view of the danger speeding poses to road safety, the World Health Organisation (WHO), in collaboration with four global partners, recently launched the second edition of a Speed Management Manual which it hopes will help curb the burgeoning scourge of road traffic deaths and injuries through managing speed on the world’s roads.

Dear Editor, With regards to a letter published in the Kaieteur News on the 11th of December, 2023 which stated that I am the national coordinator for agriculture is very inaccurate.

Dear Editor, President Ali is scheduled to meet Venezuela’s President, Nicholas Maduro Moros tomorrow, (Thursday, 14th December, 2023) at the request of the Heads of Government of CARICOM and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Dear Editor, Embedded in Mr. Jagdeo’s reflection on COP 28 (‘COP 28 pledge of US$400M not enough to assist impacted countries – Jagdeo’ in SN, Dec.

Dear Editor, Joe Solomon, the cricketer who played for Berbice, Everest, Guyana and the West Indies, and one of my boyhood heroes, died last week at the age of ninety three.

Dear Editor, It is being promoted from our side of the border that Thursday’s ‘appropriate’ dialogue will focus on the maintaining of the zone of peace and respect for international law.

Dear Editor, Most Public Service employees were completely blindsided by the salary increase offered by the government.

Dear Editor, I would appreciate it if you could grant me a space in your newspaper to highlight a complicated issue that can be easily resolved with planning and coordination.

Last Friday, as the nation, still in shock, mourned the loss of five members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier (retired) Gary Beaton, Colonel Michael Shahoud, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Charles, Lieutenant Colonel Sean Welcome, and Staff Sergeant Jason Khan, in a catastrophic air tragedy, the news broke that two other sons of the soil, Joe Solomon, and Clyde Butts, former West Indies Test cricketers had also passed away.

Dear Editor, Like many Guyanese, I was at first flabbergasted when I began watching the press conference with Dr Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines, last Friday evening.

Dear Editor, In the early months of 1991, when negotiations began for financial assistance to respond to the balance of payments crisis in Barbados, both the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank were involved with the IMF in the discussions.

Dear Editor, On December 8th, 2023, the Government of Guyana (GoG) announced a 6.5% across the board increase for public sector employees, bringing the cumulative total to date to 21.5% for the period 2021-2023.

Dear Editor, It has become the norm, without exception, that the Opposition in Guyana utilizes every opportunity to give a political twist and flavour to each and every issue.

Dear Editor, Shocking it is! “Two of the most common mental health conditions, depression and anxiety, cost the global economy US$ 1 trillion each year.

Dear Editor, Is Venezuela on the path of becoming a ‘rogue’ state?