Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I have been following with keen interest arguments for and against the closure of the Wales sugar factory.

Dear Editor, I want to thank the Chairman of GuySuCo, Prof Clive Thomas for his timely statement now placed on the public record.

Dear Editor, It was always predictable that the attempt of some Caricom leaders to engender radical changes in the formidable WICB would peter out, as only a few of those moderately popular leaders were keenly interested in the arcane subject of cricket governance, and whatever interest there was, emanated almost solely from the circumstance that the team had been losing for so long.

Dear Editor, We are overseas-based Guyanese who want to return home with our family and encourage investors to support development in Guyana, but the authorities are making it difficult for me in seeking justice.

Dear Editor, It would be very useful for GT&T to advise me on the way forward in relation to my landline service which has remained ‘dead’ for more than three months now.

Dear Editor, It is incumbent on me to raise my voice with Mr Albert Cumberbatch, ‘What is in the fogging spray?’(SN,

Dear Editor, The late US president, Harry Truman once said that he wanted to find a one-armed economist who could advise him, rather than confuse him.

Dear Editor, Team Benschop welcomes the decades’ long overdue restoration of the historic Kitty Market structure.

Dear Editor, I hereby offer my sincerest apologies for the tone of my letter in SN captioned ‘All forms of corporal punishment should not be abolished,’ dated January 26, in which I expressed great disappointment in President David Granger’s views concerning ending corporal punishment in the school and the home.

Dear Editor, Prior to the 2015 national and regional elections, the APNU+AFC politicians clamoured relentlessly for accountability and transparency, especially in public procurement.

Dear Editor, On Monday, January 25 a GAWU functionary came to our factory at Enmore and held a meeting asking for solidarity with the Wales sugar workers.

Dear Editor, I was involved in an accident with my motorcycle on the job as a rice extension officer.

Dear Editor, For decades I have been advocating racial harmony in the country of my birth, but my pleas were ignored both by the PPP and PNC administrations and it seems as if the new APNU+AFC government might not be different.

Dear Editor, I seem to have obtained a pen pal in the person of Rajendra Parmanand, again I have to say that he is presuming facts which are not in evidence in his letter ‘The industry still needs all hands on deck’ in the Stabroek News of February 6.

Dear Editor, Even using the Chief Statistician’s own measures create serious doubt about the claimed GDP growth rate for 2015.

Dear Editor, We live in a globalized world. If Guyana no longer has the comparative advantage in sugar production, it has no choice but to find alternative crops to produce.

Dear Editor, I make reference to a letter from Tony Vieira captioned ‘It is not true that there are no plans for the relief of Wales workers’ that was carried in your February 3 edition.

Dear Editor, I agree with attorney at law Jonas Coddett that outstanding female lawyers should be considered for membership of the inner bar and should not be sidelined because of their gender.

Dear Editor, It was so refreshing to see that there are still among us people who are willing to express views with candour like Audreyanna Thomas, GHK Lall, Pastor Wendell Jeffrey and a few others.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Finance/ Commissioner General (ag) of the GRA should put in place appropriate measures to require that every holder of a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) certificate file tax returns on or before 30th April each year.