Opinion
The Bourda Accord
Just over a decade after President Janet Jagan and opposition leader Desmond Hoyte signed the Herdmanston Accord at the northern end of New Garden Street in Georgetown on 17 January 1998, President Bharrat Jagdeo and forty social partners agreed to the Bourda Accord at the Office of the President at the southern end of the same street on 12 March 2008.
The conscience of the world
Dear Editor, In the present unrest in Tibet where the Tibetans are opposing Chinese occupation, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the American Congress said that the situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world.
The security agenda must be pursued vigorously
Dear Editor, It is time for the civil, religious, political societies and the media to publicly and aggressively pursue the following initial steps:
Penalise this water waster
Dear Editor, Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), Mr.
Global rice exports have been restricted and prices are up
Dear Editor, The US Department of Agriculture has reported that world supplies of rice have reached a 25-year low.
Guyanese have jobs all over the USA
Dear Editor, The presence of Guyanese all over the U.S amazes me.
No water bills at Cummings Lodge for six months
Dear Editor, Over the past six months we the residents of the block ‘Y’ South East Cummings Lodge have not received water bills.
Disappointed at silence from some labour leaders on the Critchlow subvention issue
Dear Editor, My heart bleeds for the TUC as I watch the government’s treatment of organised labour and the behaviour of some labour leaders.
Mr Rohee’s comments are made at the same time as similar sentiments have been raised in the US presidential race
Dear Editor, There are two reasons for my response to the last letter from Minister Rohee.
For black people black nationalism is a rejection of white supremacy and other forms of ethnic domination
Dear Editor, Political discourse in Guyana can be draining-the sometimes meanness, emptiness, foolishness, narrowness and the disrespect for whole communities are a turn off.
The boycott of the St Vincent Conference by Dr Peggy Antrobus and Andaiye was a significant example of affirmative action
Dear Editor, Now, please do not quote me as saying that affirmative action is the solution to our problems, and then call me a Black Nationalist after that.
Caricom integration and Caricom sovereignty
A recent comment, and an apparently negative decision by the newly-elected Prime Minister of Jamaica, Mr Bruce Golding give pause for thought on the trajectory of the regional integration movement.
Ask the Dutch to help with our sea defences
Dear Editor, Congratulations to yourself and staff for giving us overseas-based Guyanese a wonderful opportunity to be able to access your newspapers via the internet almost anywhere in the world.
Classes can be efficiently managed without corporal punishment
Dear Editor, As the letter stated, it is a known fact that violence, of any kind, breeds further violence.
Oil supplies are running down, we must get serious about hydro
Dear Editor, It’s no secret any more that for every nine barrels of oil we consume, we are only discovering one – The BP Statistical Review of World Energy.
I shall miss Mohamed Nazim
Dear Editor, It was a matter of deep sadness when I learnt of the death of Mohamed S.
This provocative film can only deliver religious strife
Dear Editor, Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP, who has planned to release an anti-Islamic film this month will never lead his followers to the Promised Land.
The Wright stuff
Even forty years after civil rights pioneers like Dr King opened up the political landscape for black America, racial injustice is a subject that is mostly taboo.
A broken society?
Dear Editor, Has Guyana become a broken society? We have gunmen who massacre policemen in police stations and people in their homes killing innocent men, women and children.
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