Opinion

Dear Editor, A recent Facebook post spoke of the death of two young ladies while swimming at one of our creeks.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to “Singh meets US EXIM officials, no word yet on key gas to energy $$” (SN Sep 8).

Dear Editor, Imagine my utter shock when Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh returned from his U.S.

Dear Editor, The front page of Stabroek News, August 28,  2024 carried an article with a photograph under the caption, “Pakaraima Games: President Irfaan Ali yesterday attended the North Pakaraima District Games 2024 at Kamana Community Ground, Region Eight.

Dear Editor, Peter Vieira, one of Guyana’s outstanding Leather artists died at his home in Sophia some weeks back.

One of the enduring developmental weaknesses in the governance process that has obtained in post-independence Guyana has been governments’ chronic inability to plan and execute major and strategically important development-related projects that have to do with the creation and maintenance of durable/reliable inventories.

Dear Editor, In his letter published in the Stabroek News edition of September 8, 2024, with the caption “Given questionable credibility of inflation data, it is important to know weight of each of the nine groups in consumer basket”, Dr.

Dear Editor, Calls for constitutional change to realise devolution of power to the masses ignore the constitution makes provision for this.

Dear Editor, With the permission of SN’s editorial team, I am writing to preempt its weekly Cost-of-Living series that comes out on Mondays.

In quite blunt language, the acting vice-president of operations at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Therese Turner-Jones has cited the ineffectiveness of Bank programmes in Trinidad and Tobago where there isn’t an overarching national plan which is insulated from changes in government.

Dear Editor, What a first week of the new school year: schools rebuilt; new schools constructed and commissioned; pit latrines to a school without basic facility – working toilet; lamentations about the new laboratory at a secondary school; some schools affected by electrical issues.

Dear Editor, The fact that so much media space, time and resources are devoted to inflation speak in one voice, which is that most Guyanese wage a daily battle to put food on the table.

Dear Editor, “The lack of proficiency in [mathematics and English] is not just an academic issue but one that could have long-term socio-economic consequences”; the words of Dr Wayne Wesley, Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Examinations Council, reported in the Barbados Nation newspaper of August 21.

Dear Editor, Do I have to do everything around here?  Why should I be teaching stubborn Guyanese local life? 

Exactly what Caricom heads of government will be doing at their next meeting discussing the CXC Mathematics performance this year is not something which is altogether comprehensible.

Dear Editor, I write today regarding the dark side to the construction of highways and bridges, which has often had an entrenched racial segregation motive, especially in the United States, where these infrastructures became physical barriers separating white and minority neighbourhoods.

Dear Editor, While meetings which facilitate discussions surrounding US Exim ‘Bank’s support towards Guyana’s transformational Gas-to-Energy project’ continue but before ExxonMobil completes the approximately US$1B pipeline would the Environmental Protection Agency kindly inform whether the contractual obligations in the Environmental Permit 2021528-NGPLE have been upheld.

Dear Editor, Guyana is poised for continued impressive growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), promising measurable benefits for all Guyanese.