Opinion

Dear Editor, This letter is a response to the death of Karen Shondell Reid of Sheet Anchor, East Canje, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), and her offspring.

Dear Editor, It was fowl play that prompted some overdue thinking. 

Dear Editor, Guyana and UG have lost a man with much vision, drive, ambition (and a nice selection of bow ties) with Ivelaw Griffith demitting office and leaving anew for the New World.

What President Granger had to say on Thursday on the environment and, in particular, the protection of the rivers of this country is most welcome.

Dear Editor, Please allow me the opportunity to respond to a letter in your newspaper headlined, ‘Move by GLSC for hydrographic surveying has political, strategic implications’ (SN: 8/6/2019).

Dear Editor, Please allow Power Producers and Distributors Inc (PPDI) to respond to statements attributed to its operations and maintenance in your letters’ column on the 8th June, 2019.

Dear Editor, $4.3 billion being spent for registration when less costly methods may exist for ensuring all Guyanese eligible to vote can do so, is in my opinion, a wanton waste of Guyana’s finances.

Dear Editor, Too many citizens, its graduates and their colleagues, current and prospective students, of the University of Guyana, must wonder at the turbulence in which it appears to be caught, when, even from a distance, we hear the drumbeats of a fundamental controversy, of discontent, about its management style and outcomes.

The US travel advisory for Guyana, which was issued at the end of last month, was given extensive coverage in the media for reasons which are not too far to seek.

Dear Editor, A mind becomes better when it reads Antonio Gramsci.

Dear Editor, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashleigh E. Jackson penned a letter on 06-Jun-2019 in SN where he stated that Jan Mangal (author of this letter) made unwarranted assumptions and arrived at foregone conclusions.

Dear Editor, I would like to make some observations with respect to the stretch of road from the McDoom gas station to the arch at the end of Agricola.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Public Infrastructure Hon. David Patterson took to social media (Facebook) to vent his frustration about the positioning of the Vreed-en-Hoop to Kingston submarine cable; Patterson identified this positioning as a poor political decision by the PPP and as the culprit for this round of power shortages.

Dear Editor, A matter which appears technical on the surface and pales into significance compared to headline grabbing news such as crime, corruption in high places and challenges in the budding oil and gas sector has gratefully, caught the attention of a section of the media.

Dear Editor, In 2004 Guyana produced 325,000 tonnes of sugar. At that time Booker Tate was running our industry on a management contract, then Robert Persaud became Minister of Agriculture in 2006 and shortly thereafter he terminated the Booker Tate contract in 2009.

Dear Editor, Reference is being made to Frederick Kissoon’s letter `UG unions have a moral obligation to debunk Lewis’s statement on my involvement’ (SN 7th June 2019).

Dear Editor, In a recent news report by Newsroom, Chairman of the GPL, Rawle Lucas, in reference to the blackouts, stated, “This is one child we must kill, I know people don’t like to murder but that one we have to end”.

In April 1989, university students in Beijing used the funeral of Hu Yaobang, a general secretary of China’s Communist Party (CCP), as a rallying point for protests against the government’s obsessive control of their lives.