Dear Editor, In a Sunday Stabroek article of June 20, captioned ‘Government looking seriously at ethanol from molasses project,’ President Jagdeo delivering the feature address at the Low Carbon Conference was reported as expressing the need for the planning and standardization of projects executed in Guyana and implied that in their absence engineers seemed to be performing their work in a helter-skelter fashion.
Dear Editor, We have seen the Guyana country narrative report in the US Department of State’s 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report, which places Guyana yet again on the Tier 2 Watch List, and which has as one of the recommendations to Guyana: “ensure trafficking-specific shelter and care is offered to identified victims of trafficking.”
Dear Editor, I sat reading Mr Dave Martins’ contribution in the SN of 21.6.10 captioned ‘A scenic bonanza in waiting.’
Dear Editor, The recent reports, which suggest that the opposition political parties are open to forming a coalition to contest the 2011 elections, are welcome news.
Dear Editor, The body count on our roadways continues to grow astronomically.
Dear Editor, Political parties are there to form governments. Parties therefore cannot and must not relinquish their role to civil society since politics is not civil society’s leading role, unless they are organised into a grassroots mass movement.
Dear Editor, It would be remiss of me to bottle up my delight at how, within the past week, both print and electronic media have suddenly zoomed in on the critical services Food for the Poor (Guyana) Inc, in collaboration with the Roetheli Lil’ Red foundation of Kansas, Missouri, have been making accessible to the poor of our country.
Dear Editor, I could only take one taxi at a time so I chose the one driven by a young man not older than twenty-one.
Dear Editor, On Tuesday, June 15, I was at the passport office with a friend who was applying for a new passport.
Dear Editor, Some time ago, the powers that be promulgated that all taxis/hire cars in Guyana would have to be yellow in colour by a certain date.
Dear Editor, Those who would have read SN’s recent editorial (Saturday, June 19) on the celebration of Wilson Harris as a Guyanese writer, should read again.
Dear Editor, The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) takes cognizance of a Kaieteur News article titled ‘Gov’t contracts… Measures mulled to sanction consultants, engineers – performance bonds not ruled out,’ dated Thursday, June 17, 2010 which mentions contracts that were awarded to BK International to strengthen the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) following the 2005 floods on the coast.
Dear Editor, As expected, the recent victory of the People’s Partnership in Trinidad has created a flurry of activities in Guyana regardless of the fact that the two situations are fundamentally different.
Dear Editor, Some new insight on foreign policy in Georgetown has been presented in the editorial headed ‘lran,’ which states that, “President Jagdeo’s famously ad-hoc foreign policy just turned out even more random than usual” (Sunday Stabroek, June 13).
Dear Editor, Music is the universal language and has been in existence for a very long time.
Dear Editor The Forest Products Association (FPA) notes that the US State Department 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report erroneously claims that approximately 984 children were removed from exploitative labour in Guyana between 2005 to 2009.
Dear Editor, I consider the reaction of the Honourable Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green to inquiries for details of his trip to China to be bordering on hypocrisy.
Dear Editor, Sasenarine Singh’s June 18, 2010 letter titled ‘The presidential candidate of a Guyana People’s Partnership would have to be someone not tainted by the PPP or PNC’ was refreshing, but it is not without question. That
Dear Editor, The United States State Department has once again issued a report scathingly critical of the Government of Guyana’s approach to the social phenomenon of trafficking in persons.
Dear Editor, I am a born Essequibian. I am over 60 years old, and recently read of the problems with the Supenaam ferry stelling.
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