Opinion

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to a letter published in the Wednesday February 24, 2016 edition of your newspaper, captioned ‘Officials would not deal with issue of child being beaten by teacher’ which was written by Mr Michael Mc Garrell.

Dear Editor, Most of what Mr Charles Sohan wrote in your edition yesterday [Feb 24] entitled, ‘Turning around a farm-based corporation operating at a loss is unheard of ,’ is so accurate.

Dear Editor, Below is a copy of a letter sent to Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder signed by 67 Wales sugar workers, whose employment status was brought to an end arbitrarily earlier this month.

Dear Editor,   The PPP/C always viewed and used the budget as an economic tool and instrument for managing available resources to meet the needs of our people in communities across our country.

Dear Editor, I would like to seek clarification from Mr Anand Goolsarran on whether the contents of a news article that appeared in the KN on February 23 headlined ‘Audit report…NICIL sells hotel to Roraima Airways for $138M’ correctly reflects the findings of his forensic audit of NICIL, and whether the news article has excluded any other pertinent information used by Mr Goolsarran to draw his conclusion.

Leftist populism continues to lose ground in Latin America. Last Sunday, voters in Bolivia rejected President Evo Morales’ attempt at constitutional reform to allow him to run for a third consecutive presidential term in 2019.

Dear Editor, I was heartened to see the many condemnations of GPL’s disconnection notice in SN of December 30 last year, informing the public of a reconnection fee of $3,200 and the payment of an increased security deposit 6 times the average monthly bill.

Dear Editor, The Walter Rodney CoI confirmed more than our suspicions about Rodney’s assassination and the intellectual authors behind the plot.

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing my letter in relation to the abuse of children in a private school.

Dear Editor, In an SN letter of February 20, Vic Oditt, a former chairman of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and a businessman with varied investment interests stated that gross mismanagement by GuySuCo and specifically its agricultural operations of the Wales Sugar Estate (WSE) has been responsible for operating losses over the years and will result in closure of WSE at the end of 2016.

Dear Editor, I personally love to see patriotic events like the flag-raising ceremony; I believe it revives a sense of commitment to country and for brotherhood/sisterhood.

Dear Editor, Am I naïve in asking why could some of the clean-up in preparation for the 50th anniversary celebrations could not have been done before?

Dear Editor, As my Bajan wife and I watched the pieces of video footage I recorded from the 46th Republic anniversary celebrations, we talked of the nostalgic events of the day.

The fourth phase of a brick (concrete) building being constructed inside the compound of the city prison at Lot 12 Camp Street, is slated for completion at the end of July, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan informed the National Assembly last week during consideration of the budget estimates.

Dear Editor, At about 3 pm on the 22nd of February, I was agitated by the sound of blows being rained down on a screaming child over the road from where I work (location provided).

Dear Editor, Given the fact that there has been no local democratic renewal in Guyana for almost two decades, Guyanese, understandably, have numerous questions about local government.