Dear Editor,
Thank you for publishing the many missives and news reports that keep us well informed and updated on Venezuela’s claim to legitimate territory that belongs to Guyana. Articles (commentaries) have proliferated in your (and other) media on the subject in recent months; the controversy has been making news over the last seven years. As a result of these news items and letters or epistles, the public (as well as the world) has gotten a better understanding of the history of the border issue and how it was initially resolved. Your reportage and editorials have helped readers to understand how as well why the conflict raised its ugly head to now reappear in the world court. The public too can now make an informed, unbiased decision about which country has a legitimate and rightful claim to Essequibo. The contemporary availability of so much information in your media about the evolution of the border dispute and its expected resolution at the ICJ is a far cry from the early 1980s. There was a paucity of information.
But now one can write MA thesis and PhD dissertation on the border conflict with the amount of literature on the subject in the public domain. Today, the public today has access to several MA research papers (thesis) as well as books on the dispute in addition to the original arbitration judgment. They are very informative and well written. These publications have been summarized and or paraphrased in your paper in several articles by excellent writers making for easier comprehension of the border controversy. These writings should be collected and collated by the Foreign Affairs Ministry and packaged— made quickly available to individuals or organizations and our CARICOM partners to present our case. Thank you for carrying these articles without which the nation would have been poorer in knowledge of the Venezuela border dispute. Your patriotism and nationalism are saluted.
Yours truly,
Dr. Vishnu Bisram
