Opinion

Dear Editor, One of the most entertaining and exhilarating shows in Guyana occurs every afternoon between 4-6 pm on the Mahaica River, Supply, Mahaica.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources wishes to give clarifications  on the enforcement exercises currently under execution at Marudi Mountain and Tassawini.

Dear Editor, Just what nonsense is going on at UG? They now have a vice chancellor with vision and a permanent bow tie!

Dear Editor, I refer to the article titled, `M&CC, City Chamber seal cooperation pact’ (SN May 4). 

Dear Editor, May 5th marked the 181st anniversary of Indian Arrival Day (IAD) in Guyana.

Given its inauspicious beginnings in Jamaica and numerous questions over the scope of its works, it is meet that both the government and the opposition have agreed that the US$150m expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri be audited.

Dear Editor, I write on behalf of a fellow villager, who has worked from 1997 to 2014 at a State institution but is now being denied a National Insurance Scheme (NIS) pension because a revised contribution statement shows her having a shortfall of two contributions or the equivalent of $1,000 dollars in earnings (contribution statements attached).

Dear Editor, I was moved to write after reading a touching letter from Ms Romayne Atkinson, “a 37-year-old mother of two boys (ages seven and three)” and a “kidney failure patient on haemodialysis” (KN: 26/04/2019).

Dear Editor, There has been so much written in the public domain over the last month on the planned GFC restructuring that I hesitated for some time before writing this letter.

Dear Editor, We the undersigned hereby write this letter of support for Vice Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith as he deals with personal, misleading and scurrilous attacks of his stewardship of the University of Guyana.

Dear Editor, May 5 has been designated Arrival Day to recognise and celebrate the contributions made by our ancestors, particularly Indians, Portuguese and Chinese, to our national development.

President David Granger has finally appointed a new Minister of Foreign Affairs, after Mr Carl Greenidge was required to resign because he held dual citizenship.

Dear Editor, No doubt many Guyanese are now aware of the recent damage wrought by fires at Waikin Ranch.

Dear Editor, Sir Shridath Ramphal, Rashleigh Jackson, Rudolph Insanally, are a few of the predecessor Foreign Ministers who must have been unheard of when the decision was made to appoint a total ingénue to a position whose earlier incumbencies would have been as highly respected, if not more so, as the recently demitted Carl Greenidge.

Dear Editor, I saw a letter in yesterday’s Stabroek News titled, `I consented to a vascular bypass at the back of the knee and woke up to a whole leg amputated.’

Dear Editor, May 5, (Indian) Arrival Day is special to me.

Dear Editor, Several developments, both locally and internationally, have taken place within the recent past which could have implications for the wellbeing of the Guyanese people.

Thomas Jefferson memorably said that “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”