Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, What is really amazing is that protests have been successfully organized against the parking meters affair and VAT on private education but no such efforts have been placed behind the immediate bread and butter issues affecting the entire nation:  the VAT on water and electricity. 

Dear Editor, In the imposition of the notorious student tax, the authorities have manufactured an unfortunate and a convenient divide between private and public schools, giving the impression that private schools are not contributing to the education of the nation and students attending private schools are not Guyana’s children.

Dear Editor, A call is hereby made to the relevant authorities about a busy road intersection which needs road signs urgently and the fixing of large potholes so as to aid road users.

Dear Editor, On Friday, at the University of Guyana (UG), Turkeyen Campus, the Carter Center Guyana will be hosting a symposium on Guyana’s constitutional reform process.

Dear Editor, Right now Guyana is going downhill. The cost of living is going up; all prices have gone up; and some businesses are on the verge of closing down.

Dear Editor, As climate change continues to pose a threat to places, species and people’s livelihoods, almost 500 Guyanese joined WWF Guianas, Guyana Office and its partners on Saturday, March 25th, at the Thomas Lands Parking Lot of the National Park to celebrate the largest environmental event in the world: ‘Earth Hour’, and to shine a light on climate action.

Dear Editor, The new Minister of Health, Volda Lawrence I believe has inherited a mess from both Dr Bheri Ramsaran and Dr George Norton in the health sector generally as well as in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Dear Editor, Guyana’s Jubilee anniversary has come and gone, the excitement is over and we are now well into the next 50 years of the nation’s existence.

Dear Editor, I am a 78-year-old rice farmer of Hague Settlement on the West Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, If my colleagues and I never took a risk before, then leaving Guyana to participate in a voluntary programme in Romania is certainly a big one.

Dear Editor, The recent move by government to impose VAT on private education has caused many people to give their opinions about the administration and we saw a few persons starting to picket at various locations with the aim of trying to get the government to change its position.

Dear Editor, Radio is unstoppable, a wonderful medium indeed. It can have a soothing and therapeutic effect, depending on the nature and quality of the programme.

Dear Editor, I thank your newspaper for sending Kenesha Fraser to Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast, to produce a January 5, 2014 story on the village.

Dear Editor,   The Guyanese American diaspora (from the greater New York area) held a seminar and cultural variety programme on Sunday afternoon in a tribute to the late former Presidents Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan in Richmond Hill, Queens to celebrate his 99th birth anniversary and to memorialize and commemorate the 20th anniversary since his death and 9th anniversary since her death.

Dear Editor, The traditionally reserved Bank of Guyana (the Bank) has found itself increasingly drawn into public statements and appearances over the uncertainty surrounding the foreign exchange market and the deterioration of the exchange rate of the Guyana Dollar.

Dear Editor, Commemorative activities in the country seem, inevitably, to acquire some of the stain and colours of our racial antipathies.

Dear Editor, Without a doubt, the greatest obstacle to an APNU+AFC re-election bid in 2020, is the man who now holds the strategic positions of Leader of the Opposition and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo.

Dear Editor, The country’s wounds will heal I believe, only when Guyana acknowledges the truth of what happened from October 9, 1953 (the date when the Constitution was suspended), to the present.

Dear Editor, The 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 which resulted in the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC) is of special significance to Guyana and other former Caribbean colonies of Britain, France and The Netherlands.

Dear Editor, With reference to the ongoing media debate on the sugar industry, in rural outreach discussions (seminars) with international scholars in Trinidad and Guyana, which are part of the commemoration of the centenary of the abolition of indenture, sugar workers in both societies bitterly complain of their mistreatment by state owned sugar companies and the government.