Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Several articles have been written recently about our increasingly endangered wildlife and the need for enforcement.

Correction In last week’s editorial it was incorrectly stated that the oil exploration vessel which was forced from our waters by the Venezuelans was called the Anadarko.

Dear Editor, Until this nation is prepared to have open and frank conversations on race in the quest for equality and national development, the self-serving and opportunistic in our midst will continue to manipulate our differences to the detriment of all.

Dear Editor, The Demerara Cricket Board fiasco is presently engaging the attention of the court.

Dear Editor, Is there a magic potion or miracle cure or, as we say in Guyana, an ‘obeah’ that can be used to cure our ailing sugar industry?

Dear Editor, I commend Mr Wayne Forde, President of Fruta Conquerors for publicly stating in your newspaper on April 3 that he is not in support of a no-confidence motion against the President of the GFF, Mr Matthias.

Dear Editor, Ever since Cheddi Jagan died in 1997 many in the PPP, and recently in the PNC, have oftentimes alluded to the Jagan legacy without defining what that legacy is.

Dear Editor, Once again there has been outrage, and rightly so by some concerned voices over the manner in which the 14-year-old boy Andy met his death.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday evening, April 9, I was in the upper flat of the GCC, Bourda, to hear Reds Perreira share his memories of cricket in Guyana in the old days, particularly the 1950s.

Dear Editor, A resolution to amalgamate the Guyana Legion and the Ex-GDF Association was welcomed with great applause and excitement. 

Dear Editor, I read with great interest a letter written by my old New Amsterdam friend, Morty Codett which  appeared in Wednesday’s  issue of the Stabroek News (April 9) under the caption ‘Why no women Senior Counsel?’

Dear Editor, In the face of threats by the PPP to turn any denial of the government’s $6 billion subsidy for the sugar industry into a racist act against the predominantly East Indian sugar workers, the joint parliamentary opposition voted for the subsidy.

Dear Editor, I have been visiting the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground (ARCCG) on a regular basis, including playing cricket matches there.

 Dear Editor, The recent announcement by Presidential Advisor Gail Teixeira that the government is seriously thinking of establishing a local law school in light of the recent decision taken by the Council of Legal Education to no longer grant twenty-five LLB students from the University of Guyana places in the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad is a step in the right direction.

Dear Editor, Only in Guyana would its citizens be at the mercy of criminals, as in the case of Rajendra Singh.

Dear Editor, Despite the huge amount of the budget allocated to the Ministry of Education, female education will not improve because Guyana continues to be a male dominated society where women are not seen as equal partners with their male counterparts.

Dear Editor, There is a typical case here in the Rupununi of misplaced priorities by the PPP government.

Dear Editor, Your newspaper has been active in informing Guyanese readers about the situation in Ukraine.

Dear Editor, I see that a great storm of dust has been raised regarding Minister of Education Priya Manickchand’s unfortunate behaviour in Parliament and her arrogant refusal to apologise to MP Jaipaul Sharma.

Dear Editor, In a previous letter, ‘Racial constructs are man-made’ (SN, April 1), I wrote this: “Politicians do not come right out and tell us to hate our fellow Guyanese; they imply things, they use innuendo and manipulative rhetoric; they try to make us afraid of others.”