Dear Editor,
Our beautiful country is endowed with many resources. While development is ongoing, I am of the firm belief that if more emphasis is placed on agriculture we can become a very viable nation.
Dear Editor,
Since reading Rajendra Bissessar’s letter captioned, `Globalization has meant more inequality’ (SN June 16, 2011) I have been thinking about a response.
Dear Editor,
After reading your article, ‘Jamaican Contractor General corruption fight drew US admiration – cable,’ (June 17), I couldn’t help wondering what the Wikileaks cables on information from the US Embassy in Georgetown to Washington have to say about the fight by any Guyana government official against corruption.
Dear Editor,
Now that it is well known that David Granger is the presidential candidate of the People’s National Congress Reform and is the owner of the Guyana Review, I believe that in all fairness to everyone, the Stabroek News should stop publishing this magazine, at least during this upcoming elections period.
Dear Editor,
The most crucial point in this debate on sugar workers severance pay is that no discussion was held in the National Assembly to find out where this money is coming from to pay severance to the sugar workers, who were left in limbo for more than a year.
Dear Editor,
As our community and I battle to preserve a strip of land that was allocated to us for community purposes some years ago, we face an administration at City Hall that seems to little appreciate the importance of open space and land for our children, cultural activities and recreation.
Dear Editor,The writer is indebted to Mr Milne Seymour whose letter to SN of May 16 (‘Comparing the GTU agreement of 2006 with that of 2011’) provided the information used again below, hopefully, in a more comparative format, inclusive of ready remarks.
Dear Editor,
They say a picture speaks more than a thousand words, so I decided to send a picture of the water that comes through the taps of the residents of Cornelia Ida, West Coast, Demerara.
Dear Editor,
It is clear the opposition political parties, namely the PNCR and AFC with their presidential candidates have no clue about the dynamics of the sugar industry and the important role it plays in Guyana, or else they are just playing ignorant of these realities to dupe unsuspecting individuals during this period.
Dear Editor,
On Friday, May 13 I opened Stabroek News and came face to face with a two-page report about a bin Laden “kill” plan, so I immediately went to the coffee shop and showed the report to five men there.
Dear Editor,
If most of the people of this country were asked whom they would be voting for, the most likely answer would be for the presidential candidates of the two main political parties, the PPP or the PNC.
Dear Editor,
It was heartening to see the youth of the PNCR finally involved in a very vibrant rally last weekend as the party continues on the hot campaign trail for elections 2011.
Dear Editor,
In making his case for an increased financial contribution to the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation President Jagdeo is quoted as saying that “government’s commitment to sugar has nothing to do with the workers being ‘a party support base,’ but rather with the development of the sector which contributes some 16 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product.”