Opinion

China’s silence on Venezuelan aggression is disturbing

Dear Editor, In the latest round of hostilities in his ongoing hybrid war against us to seize Essequibo, Venezuela’s Maduro moved from massing troops against us on Venezuela’s side of the 1899-determined border as he did in Dec 2023, to actually deploying on March 1, an armed Naval vessel into our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), far beyond what they have claimed in the past.

GOAL and ISDC

The GOAL scholarships programme was launched with great fanfare in 2021, and generally speaking was well received although reservations were expressed about the by-passing of the University of Guyana.

Many Guyanese are unfamiliar with the border issues

​Dear Editor, As an impartial spectator, it has become quite clear to me, many Guyanese are unfamiliar with the border issues facing the nation ,which in part stems from past and present governments’ failure to inform students commencing at the primary school level about these border issues and the country’s landscape.  During the colonial era of the 1950s there was a Radio Programme known as People, Places and Things where students sat in open classrooms and listened to the programme that dealt with certain aspects of the history and geography of British Guiana  now known as Guyana in such a way that encouraged the student to acquire a wider interests and to provide useful general knowledge of their country to others including the children at home or abroad.

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