Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) wishes to respond to a letter from the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) which appeared in the April 1 issue of the Guyana Chronicle by the company’s Senior Communication Officer, Ms Audreyanna Thomas.

Dear Editor, On March 28, I was fortunate to be ushered into a forum (Conference on Oil and Gas) where the brightest minds and knowledge of science and technology were on display.

Dear Editor, After reading the letter by Rajendra Bissessar (‘Michael Carrington’s marijuana bill should be looked at again’ SN, March 20), it made me feel good to see that there are others who are seriously concerned about the ludicrous things going on within the scheme of things.

Dear Editor,   I would like to congratulate DDL for having their rum certified as the Geographical Indicator “Demerara Rum”. 

Dear Editor, Constitutional reform takes centre stage again.  By now it is undeniable that constitutional reform is more than necessary; it is obligatory and of vital importance because of the sweep and potential to make a difference in the future of this place. 

Dear Editor,   The decision on the part of the government to impose VAT on private education seems premised on the notion that those who send their children to private rather than public schools are financially sound and should therefore make an additional contribution to government coffers. 

Dear Editor, After twenty-three years of the PPP, I thought a change of government was necessary. 

Dear Editor, The plan to raise tuition fees at the University of Guyana by a whopping 35% is a part of the shameful project to neo-liberalize the university.

  Dear Editor, The Pakistanis are beating the West Indians with leg spin, while the best left-hand batsman Darren Bravo is banned because he said Mr Cameron acted stupidly when the latter did do something stupid; and the other left-hander in good form, Jonathan Carter, is kept on the bench.

Dear Editor, Please allow me a response to the letter of Mr Ralph Ramkarran, Stabroek News, 2nd April, 2017, captioned `Hall was almost full’.

Dear Editor, Before the Harbour Bridge was built for the Georgetown‒Vreed-en-Hoop crossing, there was a ferry crossing which stopped after 8-9 pm sometimes, and on Saturdays at 12 midnight.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Inc wishes to furnish a further response to Mr Seepaul Narine’s letter that was published in the Stabroek News on March 24 titled ‘Injustices to sugar workers are being perpetrated anew’.

Dear Editor, Since 2009 instructions were given to speedboat owners providing a passenger service at various locations throughout Guyana that sheds should be on their boats before they would be permitted to operate.

Dear Editor, I am very sad to learn of the passing of Ms Carmen Jarvis under whose chairmanship I served as a member of the Commit-tee of the National Library.

Dear Editor, The expectation that sugar workers would organize protest action equivalent to the magnitude and sustainability of the parking meter protest response is very doubtful (‘PPC/C will support,  but not lead sugar workers ‘ protest  -Jagdeo’ SN, March 30).

Dear Editor, The Carter Center must be commended for the convening of a Symposium on constitutional reform at the Turkeyen campus.

Dear Editor, The move to ban the importation of used tyres is wrong.

Dear Editor, Your front page photograph in your Saturday edition of a ‘section’ of the audience at Friday evening’s symposium on the constitutional reform process, showed only a small ‘section’ of the audience and almost all of the few empty seats.

Dear Editor, The Russian Foreign Ministry posted on its Facebook page for April Fools’ Day the following farcical Russian Embassy answering machine message: “You have reached the Russian Embassy.

Dear Editor, At different times during any day, and in many places, I observe a tableau unfold in slow motion.