Opinion

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the news item titled ‘Tax Chief refutes GRA’s reasons for sacking –claims he was asked to do illegal things’ (KN, January 23).

Dear Editor, Another conference on domestic violence, another march in the fight against suicide, another building being promised for abused children, and another study to address some other social problem.

Politikles

As outlined in yesterday’s editorial, the manner in which the APNU+AFC government and GuySuCo communicated the decision to close the Wales Sugar Estate was insensitive to a community that faces the loss of hundreds of jobs and puts families at risk of further penury and disintegration.

Dear Editor, One cannot help but be depressed about the equitable development of our nation when those on both sides of the political spectrum continue to carry on the affairs of our country with the misguided approach that they are right in whatever they are engaged in, while the other side is wrong.

Dear Editor, The call by Bharrat Jagdeo for meetings to address the issue of the proposed closure of the Wales estate that would affect 1600 workers, were one to examine same through the lens of universal principles, is a just call.

Dear Editor, My first letter to Stabroek News was some time in late 1989, when as a 16-year old Sixth Former, I chose to highlight the lack of funding and deplorable condition of my old school.

The announcement of the closure of Wales estate struck like an earthquake.

Dear Editor, Let us say it is a foregone conclusion that sugar production would come to an end at Wales – no more soil preparation and planting of cane; factory would be closed.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the letter published in Stabroek News January 21, edition, under the headline ‘East Mahaicony being asked to fund materials, labour, transportation in order to get connected to GPL’, written by S Chester.

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News edition of Saturday 16, some disgruntled persons co-signed a letter about an issue where they wanted the President to intervene.

Dear Editor, All of a sudden the newspapers are brimming with news about the drought, its effects on rice cultivation and the noble efforts being made by the NDIA and RDCs to help alleviate the shortage of irrigation water.

Dear Editor, I read with great dismay that a child has died as a result of carelessness on our roads.

Dear Editor, Caribbean countries have united in many institutions established for the well-being of the region.

Dear Editor, There is this sideshow, this soap opera distraction, of the pending demise of the General Secretary.

Twenty years ago the historian and politician Conor Cruise O’Brien argued that a key aspect of global security, one that was nearly always overlooked, was the United Nations’s unrelenting search for solutions to insoluble crises.

Dear Editor, The leaders of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) have declared that the Trade Union Recognition and Certification Board was appointed in violation of the Trade Union Recognition Act.

Dear Editor, I am writing to register my concern over the apparent one-sided approach to the provision of housing for a single category of workers without fully consulting the public.

Dear Editor, Retired public officers are required to submit life certificates for their pensions every three months.