Opinion

Mandela saying

Dear Editor, On the passing of the great Mandela I would like to remind the politicians in Guyana, both government and opposition, of a short saying by him: “A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”

A question of quality of care

Last week, a four-year-old boy died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where he had been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit after a minor operation to suture his tongue somehow went awry.

Other state enterprises will likely find it difficult to compete with GuySuCo’s holiday generosity

Dear Editor, The timing could not be worse – for the announcement of a most derisible agreement dramatically negotiated between two pre-eminent actors in a theatre known for poorly scripted plays: GuySuCo and GAWU, for the Annual Incentive Award for once more not achieving a reduced sugar production target – at the sweet cost of $375 million, reportedly the equivalent of five days pay.

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