Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Suicide is a major public health problem in Guyana, but not much attention is placed on this social issue to lower, if not eradicate, it altogether.

Dear Editor, In a recently concluded doctoral dissertation, I explored issues surrounding poverty, injustices and theology.

Dear Editor, Following on my letter on the drag race accident in an East Coast community, I had hoped this letter would not have to be written. 

Dear Editor, The group of Guyana’s categories of Health Workers include: Trained Nurse/ Midwife; Nurse; Nurse Assistant and Nurse Aide amongst others, who are supervised by more professional health personnel, both male and female.

Dear Editor, Human-caused climate change coupled with the natural El Nino dry weather phenomenon and aided and abetted by people deliberately setting grass and forest fires have brought us to this current state of destructive and polluting wildfires raging across our country.

Dear Editor, Over the past few months, I had cause to use the pontoon crossing at Kurupukari a few times and almost every time there were delays which prevented me crossing on schedule.

Dear Editor, Not a single Guyanese for, or against any democratically elected government of the day, nor even the ‘politically undecided’ should consider the threat by Vene-zuela to use force to seize a large chuck of Guyanese territory to be unreal or unimagined… It is real!

Dear Editor, Stabroek News (SN) editorial of April 8, 2024, posited that the carbon content per barrel of crude oil is 0.43 metric tons and concluded that the President Ali administration is single-mindedly focused on extraction and infrastructure.

Dear Editor, No one should differ with our former PM Nagamootoo’s yearning for greater national unity, greater civility, and mutual respect amongst us Guyanese; at all times and very much so at times of change of Government in our country, and in this instance the change of Government in August 2020.

Dear Editor, In response to the recent letter critiquing Guyana’s readiness as a tourist destination, I offer a perspective rooted in extensive global travel experience and a deep affection for Guyana’s unique charm.

Dear Editor, I have argued before and still insist that our Integrity Commission is both badly mis-purposed (as most of its statutory functions are redundant and unnecessary) and a crass violator of privacy and comfort rights of public officials and their families.

Dear Editor, If ever there was a more hackneyed statement by politicians about our agriculture it is the oft-times reference to Guyana as the potential food basket of the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, Exxon has yet to share what the estimated cost is to clean up an oil spill in the worst case scenario.

Dear Editor, Food security is a fundamental human right that every person deserves to have access to.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to letter captioned “The PPP/C kept their promise to reopen sugar estates” by Parshotam Ramnauth that was carried in SN on April 5.

Dear Editor, Former President, Donald Ramotar in his letter in SN April 8 “Most GuySuCo letter writers have engaged in blame shifting” in reference to the new Skeldon Factory stated, in part, that “by 2015 most of the problems were resolved by GuySuCo’s workers and management” is plainly wrong.

Dear Editor, In reference to former President Donald Ramotar’s trivializing missive, “Most GuySuCo letter writers have engaged in blame-shifting,” SN, Monday, April 08, I agree with him 100 percent, with this qualification: The blame starts with former President Bharrat Jagdeo and his nephew-in-law, former Agriculture Minis-ter Robert Persaud, and expanded over time to include Ramotar when he was PPP General Secretary.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) notes with serious concern a full page article in today’s (April 8, 2024) edition of the Guyana Times Newspaper on page 13, “Spraying Bath canals with weedicide for overgrowth destroys millions in crops”, alleging that GuySuCo is responsible for the damage caused.

Dear Editor, I write to register my strongest disapproval of your reportage of Moses Nagamootoo’s book launch; there was a marked absence of fact-checking or analysis.

Dear Editor, A letter writer suggested that homeowners should be offered grants to transition to solar power rather than remain on the GPL grid that cannot meet capacity.