Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The sum of $12M was approved in the 2013 national budget for an ambulance for the Mahdia Hospital, Region No.

Dear Editor, In a few weeks’ time Guyana’s major rainy season is expected to commence but the drainage systems in the city and along the coastland lack basic preparation (clean inland graded drains and outfall channels, drainage pumps in working order at critical locations, etc) all necessary to meet the impending challenges of heavy downpours with resulting widespread flooding.

Dear Editor, For those interested there will be a total eclipse of the Moon very early Tuesday morning April 15, 2014.

Dear Editor,   I am going to a wedding at the Riu in Jamaica. 

Dear Editor, It is now 1.30 am on the 5th April, and I pen this epistle to share with your readers information regarding the loud music noise that is currently emanating from a loud and incoherent boom-box here in Chateau Margot.

Dear Editor, On Friday, April 11, I visited Zeelugt Village on the East Bank of Essequibo and whilst socializing with a few friends, I learnt of another suicide.

Dear Editor, David Hinds sees himself as Black, Guyanese and Caribbean (KN April 8). 

Dear Editor, Our problems can’t be fixed if vindictive politics continue to get the better of us.

Dear Editor, I read every day of minibus operators who behave in a vulgar manner on the roads or in the parks of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a letter published in the Stabroek News on Friday April 11, 2014, entitled, ‘The Ministry of Education should put more emphasis on girls’ education,’ in which the writers questioned the ministry’s ability to competently address – through policies and programmes – the empowerment  of females within the education system.

Dear Editor, Several articles have been written recently about our increasingly endangered wildlife and the need for enforcement.

Correction In last week’s editorial it was incorrectly stated that the oil exploration vessel which was forced from our waters by the Venezuelans was called the Anadarko.

Dear Editor, Until this nation is prepared to have open and frank conversations on race in the quest for equality and national development, the self-serving and opportunistic in our midst will continue to manipulate our differences to the detriment of all.

Dear Editor, The Demerara Cricket Board fiasco is presently engaging the attention of the court.

Dear Editor, Is there a magic potion or miracle cure or, as we say in Guyana, an ‘obeah’ that can be used to cure our ailing sugar industry?

Dear Editor, I commend Mr Wayne Forde, President of Fruta Conquerors for publicly stating in your newspaper on April 3 that he is not in support of a no-confidence motion against the President of the GFF, Mr Matthias.

Dear Editor, Ever since Cheddi Jagan died in 1997 many in the PPP, and recently in the PNC, have oftentimes alluded to the Jagan legacy without defining what that legacy is.

Dear Editor, Once again there has been outrage, and rightly so by some concerned voices over the manner in which the 14-year-old boy Andy met his death.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday evening, April 9, I was in the upper flat of the GCC, Bourda, to hear Reds Perreira share his memories of cricket in Guyana in the old days, particularly the 1950s.

Dear Editor, A resolution to amalgamate the Guyana Legion and the Ex-GDF Association was welcomed with great applause and excitement.