Dear Editor,
May I make bold to offer three items of international news, the relevance of which appears to have escaped – so far – the notice of the Guyana press.
- An evident trend away from beet sugar among US candy marketers, leading some major manufacturers to ask the USDA to allow more imports of cane sugar.
- The dismissal of ten thousand ghost workers from the public service payrolls of Tanzania.
- The 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution in China, passing without official mention except to admit some of the negative consequences.
I don’t suppose that those who govern our country read newspapers any more than the general citizenry do, but we may yet hope against hope that a few among the latter could summon the attention of the former.
Yours faithfully,
Gordon Forte
