Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, This country is having an interesting and necessary debate on sugar and the future of sugar in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Anyone who believes that sugar has a future, in terms of impacting Guyana’s social and economic strata (as in the past), is experiencing denial, and is refusing to accept reality because it is too painful.

Dear Editor, Listening to the invited addresses and various comments from the floor at last Friday evening’s Moray House session on the Wales estate closure, has prompted me to now share with the general public a perspective from my own intimate knowledge of the industry going back to the early sixties.

Dear Editor, The calls for care and caution put by the Leader of the Opposition (LOP) as the coalition government proceeds as announced, with the negotiations with Guyana Wind Farm Inc (GWFI) are well justified.

Dear Editor, After reading about the murder of yet another Chinese national in a robbery attempt, I felt compelled to write.

Dear Editor, Government should not have initiated or announced plans to close the Wales Estate before it had a viable alternative economic plan(s) for ensuring that any attempt to close the estate would not result in pervasive unemployment and economic ruin in the affected communities.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank the Parliament of Guyana and its sponsors for carrying live coverage of the sessions in the National Assembly.

Dear Editor, On Thursday 6th February, 2016 a visit was made to Region 2 by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, Minister of State Joseph Harmon and the Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix and of course other senior ministry officials.

Dear Editor, The auto dealers of Guyana would like to co-operate and work with the government’s vision of a green and clean Guyana.

Dear Editor, There are too many school-based assignments which are being prepared by students and hurriedly submitted to meet deadlines set by CXC.

Dear Editor, Is there an explanation for why there is a vast difference in the educational standards of my two grandsons (born a week apart).

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.