Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In its continuing efforts at suicide prevention, The Caribbean Voice launched its community outreach and students’ self-esteem workshop in Demerara in April.

Dear Editor, On Friday 20 May 2016, The Guyana Reparations Committee will hold the main event of its month-long activities for the Caricom International and Regional Youth Reparations Relay and Rally at the Parade Ground (Independence Park) where in 1823 over 200 African Guyanese Freedom Fighters and Martyrs were killed by the British and some of their heads decapitated and placed on poles to be displayed in public at the sea wall for months afterwards as a deterrent.

Dear Editor, A  Canada-West Indies conference was held in the month of July 1966 at the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa, Ontario.

Dear Editor, I understand why we have to beautify our capital city but I simultaneously hear the agonies of the vendors and see their protest not as anti-progress but as a cry for respect and dignity.

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate our cricketers for performing with distinction against all odds including an illegal, incompetent and discriminating regime that has hijacked our cricket for over seven years during which time there has been no elections. 

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express my disgust at the events pertaining to the laying of the Rodney CoI Report in the National Assembly on 12th May 2016.

Dear Editor, It is sad to learn of the killing of Professor Perry Mars who according to media reports died at the hands of bandits at his Prashad Nagar residence.

Dear Editor, This first year has been an extended honeymoon, promises of the moon, and the sometimes superstitious circumstances surrounding the full moon. 

Dear Editor, Today is May 13. Australian and South African teams are scheduled to start a series against the West Indies in Guyana on June 3.There

Dear Editor, President Granger’s three statements on private enterprise are consistent, namely, that “a government job is seductive”, the Chronicle newspaper should revert to private ownership and that private entrepreneurship, not government jobs, is the answer.

Dear Editor, All Guyanese are now aware that Guyana has gangs of dope addicts, no different from any big North-American city.

Dear Editor, When you really come to think about it, Tony Cozier’s voice must have been the best known of any voice in the whole history of the region.

Dear Editor, In the February 16th, 2014 issue of Stabroek News, Evi Paemelaere, from the international Panthera organization (specialized in the protection of wild cats) wrote: “In the land of giants, the jaguar stands strong and proud on the coat of arms and adorns many banners and brochures to attract tourists happy to pay for catching a glimpse of America’s largest cat in Guyana.”

Dear Editor, Minister Patterson has kindly undertaken a review of the lease between the Government of Guyana and Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) which will be instructive.

Dear Editor, In our endeavour to keep the rice industry alive, we have started land preparation for the autumn crop.

Dear Editor, It was with utter shock and consternation that I glanced at the Kaieteur News headline ‘Retired Professor bound, strangled in home’ and learnt it was Professor Pairadeau Mars, known to his friends and colleagues as ‘Perry’.

Dear Editor, A joint work which is the result of friendship, solidarity and genuine integration is about to start; this is the creation of a Development Stimulating Centre for Children, Adolescents and Young People with Special Educational Needs Associated with Disabilities.

Dear Editor, On Friday the 6th May at about 10 pm four Amerindian youths were arrested in Tabatinga, Lethem, and placed in the lock-ups by the Lethem police allegedly for possession of a prohibited substance weighing 5 grammes found in a car they had been in.

Dear Editor, Your edition on Thursday carried a letter which commented on Sattaur Gafoor’s humanity.

Dear Editor, The actions to foster social cohesion cannot be piecemeal.