Dear Editor,
I had planned to visit one of the oldest sugar estate heritage sites here on the Essequibo Coast, with Mr Tota Mangar and Dr James Rose ‒ both are historians ‒ some 15 years ago when both men and I were at the Devonshire Castle Martyrs’ Day wreath-laying ceremony where 5 sugar workers were brutally gunned down in 1879.
Dear Editor
It was noticeable that the AFC arm of the coalition government, whose representative sits on the city council in the form of the Deputy Mayor, who has been vocal on the parking meters and the manner in which this project was rolled out, was not at the meeting between government and city officials recently.
Dear Editor,
There is an emerging view in some quarters and social media, disputable as it may be, that were elections to be held tomorrow in Guyana the APNU+AFC coalition would crumble and fall.
Dear Editor,
On Thursday, February 9, I joined a massive protest at City Hall to oppose the Parking Meter Project which has recently been implemented in Georgetown.
Dear Editor,
The parking meter project lacks an iota of transparency.
Dear Editor,
The parking meter project in the capital city of Georgetown has charges which are too steep and incurs penalties which are too high, especially for working-class Guyanese.
Dear Editor,
From 2000-2005, I attended the Leonora Primary School on the West Coast of Demerara.
Dear Editor,
We are two of thousands of small miners in the mining industry and as such are qualified to comment on matters concerning the industry.
Dear Editor,
I fully support former Speaker Ralph Ramkarran’s suggestion that “There should be a campaign of civil resistance if the meter zone is extended” (SN, Feb 5).
Dear Editor,
The Caribbean Voice notes that a recent editorial on mental health in a local newspaper was significant for what it omitted as much as what was included.
Dear Editor,
Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi speaking in the Lok Sabha during the just concluded 2017 Union budget debate was quoted as saying: “corruption begins with cash, and later with gold then property.”
Dear Editor,
On September 6 last year I wrote a piece in the Stabroek News about the importance of the appointment of judges to the Appellate Circuit Courts in the United States and I was criticized by a few who asked what was the relevance to Guyanese.
Dear Editor,
It has always baffled me why in the twenty-first century influential cricket people, especially in the West Indies, the region that is the chief victim of old-fashioned thinking about the game, could not recognize how invidious distinctions between the long and shorter versions have been inhibiting progress internationally in this sport they claim to love.
Dear Editor,
At the last AFC National Conference on January 28 in Region 3, we saw changes in the entire leadership of the party.
Dear Editor,
More and more the reports are surfacing, and more and more those same verbal reports are corroborated by an accumulating mound of damning records.
Dear Editor,
I am pretty sure that the MAPM is both flabbergasted and amused by Mayor Chase-Green’s contrite invitation to a ‘consultative’ meeting today at 10am.
Dear Editor,
The 21st August 2012 agreement between central government and the Regional Democratic Council, Region 10 was marked with the citizens’ blood and lives and the destruction of properties.
Dear Editor,
The letter published in your issue of February 4, captioned ‘Why have the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union directors not held an AGM?’
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to provide the following statement in response to a letter in the Stabroek News titled ‘No water in Chateau Margot’, dated February 10.
Dear Editor,
The parking meters ignominy is the latest episode in a running narrative of President David Granger’s dull and disappointing leadership of the coalition government, and it does not bode well for Guyana and most Guyanese that this performance is playing right into the come-back plan of the PPP led by the politically restive Bharrat Jagdeo.