Opinion

Dear Editor, It is very clear that the deck is stacked against the government on two controversial issues – withdrawal of ads from Stabroek News and casino gambling.

Dear Editor, I live in the United States and try to come to Guyana for a few months each year.

Dear Editor, As a Guyanese living abroad, I am writing in response to the article “Five percent wages hike ‘scandalous'” which highlighted the worsening conditions that my fellow Guyanese face.

Dear Editor I recently read about Giatree Kowsilla, a 103-year-old who now resides at 272 Good Hope, Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, who came to Guyana on October 10, 1912 as an indentured labourer.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Information Agency (GINA), a government-controlled agency’s withdrawal of ministry advertisements from Stabroek News, I have to say, comes as no surprise to me.

Dear Editor, I wish to reply to the letter captioned “Will Iwokrama ever be self-sustaining?”

Dear Editor, In the past, there have been numerous letters written and published by concerned humane people on the exploiting and oppression of innocent animals that include horses, donkeys and dogs to mention a few.

Two revealing meetings were held over the last two weeks in relation to local government at which the subject minister Mr Kellawan Lall presided.

Dear Editor; At the 84th meeting of the Sixty-first session of the UN General Assembly held in December 2006, member states voted on a draft resolution on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (document A/61/443/Add.3).

Dear Editor, Guyana was once a wonderful country to live and die in.

Dear Editor, Guyanese born Ashook Ramsaran, current Secretary General of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), who headed a business delegation to the recent diaspora summit in Delhi, met with India’s President Dr.

Dear Editor, I wish to express my deep concern as a parent over the death of little Basmatti Seecharan of Parika, East Bank, Essequibo who was raped, beaten in the head and strangled to death.

Dear Editor, VAT is causing a lot of controversy. Who suffers?

Dear Editor, One cannot help suspecting the motives of the main opposition PNC/Reform-1G in seeking to have the Berbice River Bridge project delayed until discussion of their motion for an investigation by the Economic Services Committee of the National Assembly.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter captioned “Who rebuilt Toucan Suites” (KN 07.01.17).

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned “Our Relations With India should not be at the expense of our core values as a nation” by Colin Bascom J.I.

Dear Editor, The minibus association has once again threatened to go on strike to raise their fares, a regular tactic which they use to hold the commuting public to ransom.

Dear Editor, There are those who would like to sow divisions in the society and as part of their stratagems they want to portray the PPP/Civic administration as anti-religion.

Dear Editor, I was out of the country for sometime on an approved leave of absence.

The unanimity of the various faiths on the subject of casino gambling has clearly taken the government off guard.