Letters to the Editor

From GWI’s standpoint there is no water problem at Diamond Isolation Facility

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to respond to reports of “Repeated disruption of …water supply” at the Diamond Isolation Unit, as is being reported by the Stabroek News in a May 17 article entitled “COVID-19 patients fear poor conditions at Diamond Isolation Unit delaying recovery” and a May 25 article entitled “Doctors attempt to kick down door at Diamond Isolation Facility”.

Independence Day at Westminster Abbey

Dear Editor, While all Guyana watched twenty-year-old, Second Lieutenant (2Lt) Desmond Roberts of the Guyana Defence Force raise the Golden Arrow Head at the historic flag raising ceremony ushering in Guyana’s Independence fifty-four years ago on May 26, 1966, at the National Park in Georgetown, Guyana, not many people knew that twenty-year-old, Officer Cadet Fairbairn Liverpool, of the Guyana Defence Force had a similar distinction of carrying the Golden Arrow Head down the Aisle at Westminster Abbey and present it from the altar to the diaspora in London, England to a fanfare of trumpets on the same day.

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