Opinion

Dear Editor, Several nations that are predominantly of a particular religion use their religious beliefs to dictate their national and foreign policy.

Dear Editor, Thanks for publishing my eclipse notice in SN 2025-02-10.

Guyana stands at a crossroads. In the past decade, shifting demographics driven by refugee inflows, economic migration, and internal displacement have begun to reshape not just our population, but the very essence of what it means to be Guyanese.

Dear Editor, Two incidents emanated, of different but compelling magnitude, from that private school conflagration: bravery of a young woman and the death of a fire man from injuries sustained. 

Dear Editor, There will be an eclipse of the Moon in the early hours of Friday morning, March 14, 2025, visible all over Guyana, weather permitting, in the western half of the sky.

Dear Editor, I am writing to follow up on a letter published on October 13, 2024, regarding the illegal structure on the government reserve affecting the residents of Mon Repos North and surrounding communities on the East Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, I read with disgust the statements made by Robenson Benn who is supposed to be in charge of national security in Guyana.

Dear Editor,  As an individual who remigrated to my homeland of Guyana after twenty years, it is deeply concerning to witness the ongoing challenges with the country’s water supply.

Dear Editor, As a localised response to the pirata provocation launched by the naval patrol vessel of Venezuela within this country’s EEZ maritime space; your editorial ‘Clashes and Consequences’ (Sun.

Dear Editor, I would like to highlight some strange thinking or I should say decisions by our policymakers.

Dear Editor, It was with great admiration that I read the Finance Secretary’s triumphant announcement that 495,000 cash grant cheques have been issued (“495,000 cash grant cheques issued – Finance Secretary,” Stabroek News, March 2024).

Dear Editor, I would like to make the following comments: It appears GOAL’s objective was to ramp-up Vocational & Technical skills.

Dear Editor,  The unfolding revelations in the GOAL/University of Staffordshire matter, while shocking is also unfortunate. 

Dear Editor, Following on from my note re your letters column, I think President Ali needs to spend some of the oil money ‘sensitising’ (a dreadful Guyanese word.

Dear Editor,  Neither Mark Benschop or Rickford Burke have identified with any political party and it is completely in their right not to; I have mentioned their names because they are leading Guyanese activists and very influential social media personalities and it would be foolhardy to believe they do not have a say in which political party should lead Guyana.

Dear Editor,  I’m writing to express my concern about a recent incident involving Honourable Zulfikar Mustapha, Minister of Agriculture.

For roughly 17 months, the Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has twiddled its thumbs over the obscene award of a $865m pump station contract to an unqualified associate of the government without taking the necessary action to preserve the revenues of the country.

Dear Editor, Guyana became a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on October 25, 2017.