Opinion

In a letter in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News headlined `The Guyana Cancer Society demand is inconsiderate’,  letter writer Trevor Charles erroneously referred to the Guyana Cancer Society (GCS) instead of the Cancer Institute of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Guyana Cancer Society’s Executive Board Members, Board Members, Advisory Board Members and our current membership are concerned about a letter published in yesterday’s issue of the Stabroek News that erroneously mentioned the Guyana Cancer Society (Editor’s note: This has been corrected in the note above.)

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article “Let’s be Clear: Corporal Punishment is Violence and a Clear Violation of the Rights of Children, In the Diaspora, 22 July 2024.”

Dear Editor, The following letter is a work of fiction, crafted to highlight the importance of holding a plebiscite on the matter of genuine constitutional reforms.

Dear Editor, On Monday evening my family went to P F Chang, a recently opened restaurant on High Street, Georgetown. 

          “Ease the pounding of my heart          By the quieting of my mind.

Dear Editor, President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is contesting elections in that country due to be held on the 28th of this month, that is, this coming Sunday, for a third time in office.

Dear Editor, A loud voice went still on Saturday July 20th. 

Dear Editor, Reference is made to missive of Mr. Tony Vieira outlining the failure of Skeldon sugar factory (July 20).

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is in crisis, inside a vicious circle of corruption and more from which it seems impossible to escape.

Leaving aside – for the moment – the just ended seventy-odd days of industrial action by state-employed teachers, which eventually gave way to discourses between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union on the matter of teachers’ emoluments, there had been much earlier indications that large ‘chunks’ of our education system that had to do with the condition of ‘good order’ that is indispensable to an amenable teaching/learning environment had, across a wide swathe of the state-run education system, deteriorated.  

Dear Editor, Through a family friend who had cancer surgery and needs radiation therapy I was made aware of the fact that the Cancer Institute of Guyana, in order for the radiotherapy to commence, demands full payment.

Dear Editor, Back in May 2022, the World Health Organisation, via the World Report on Vision, estimated that without urgent action, the number of people who are blind could triple by 2050.

Dear Editor, The current Traffic Chief seems to have accepted the role of barking with no bite.

Dear Editor, President Joe Biden should go gracefully to pasture. If he is as is today, there is no telling how he will be a year from now. 

Dear Editor, I wish to join with others in expressing my deepest condolences to the relatives and friends of the late Ramon Gaskin popularly known as ‘Rambo’ because of his courage to speak his mind and stand up for what he believed in.

In a Project Syndicate column in the July 19 edition of Stabroek News, the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB’s) Chief Economist Eric Parrado addressed  what he called political short-termism in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) where policymaking and planning are not consistent between different administrations.