Letters to the Editor

Bizarre for EPA to hold such a view

Dear Editor, Please tell me that the Environmental Protection Agency was misquoted in the article `EPA exempts two companies from impact studies for quarry licences’ appearing in the Stabroek News of June 8, 2021.

Frank Thomasson
Frank Thomasson

Frank Thomasson – A Tribute to Ian’s Portrait

Dear Editor, Before Ian McDonald played the role of best man at Frank Thomasson’s wedding, little would he have known that I was asked to be chaperon while Frank was courting Carlotta Croal, who at the time was a Senior Information Officer who tutored me in radio broadcast production as a new Information Officer at the Government Information Services, then headed by Arthur Seymour.

Two cases outlined do not pass muster

Dear Editor, I had a chance to examine the ‘evidence of racial discrimination in government hiring practices’ as presented by GHK Lall in a letter in Stabroek News `There could only be one reason behind the dismissal of these two senior Gold Board employees’ (June 6th, 2021) and have found that of the two cases outlined do not pass muster.

Latin America and the Caribbean Region can be their own vaccine powerhouse

Dear Editor, Global policy makers failed to heed warnings that the threat of a pandemic is always present resulting in our current dilemma; the re-emergence of a Coronavirus was predicted after two prior Coronavirus outbreaks (SARS -2003, MERS – 2012) and, given the notorious mutation rate of the influenza virus, an influenza pandemic is always a possibility.

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