Opinion

Dear Editor, This letter seeks to draw increased attention to the developmental costs, both biological and economic, of some infectious diseases, including malaria, and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).

There are not many ways for a small country to project itself in a world of something like 195 independent states, especially when, in addition, the economic and military heavyweights have commandeered so much of the public space.

Dear Editor, I recently returned from a week-long visit to Cuba during which I held discussions with a number of government agencies, the Chamber of Commerce and the United States Embassy.

Dear Editor, Natural resources are high on the agenda to develop the country and propel the economy.

Dear Editor, I hereby convey my sincere congratulations to Justice of Appeal, Madame Justice Yonnette Cummings-Edwards, who was recently appointed to act in the office of the Chief Justice of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Guyana can once more become the food basket of the Caribbean given our endowment of extensive and rich agricultural lands.

Dear Editor, My letter to the editor wondering whether there was a 10 year plan to end WI cricket (SN, Dec 18), had not even appeared when Mark Nicholas published on cricinfo an article entitled, ‘Is it time for the West Indies nations to go it alone?’

Dear Editor, There is a drastic drop in the standard of cricket by the official West Indies team.

Before the Apollo 8 mission captured Earth’s first self-portrait in December 1968, there was little sense of our collective fragility and interdependence.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Macro-economic indicators provide good information on the health of a country’s economy.

Dear Editor, Please allow me the opportunity to clarify a few issues raised by Mr Anthony Pantlitz (‘Why does the EU want us to get rid of capital punishment so badly?’

Dear Editor, As a former employee of the Guyana Sugar Corporation, I have been following with keen interest the imbroglio between the state corporation and the main union, GAWU, relating to the former’s refusal to negotiate a pay increase for 2015 and its insistence on awarding approximately 2½ days’ pay as the annual production bonus for 2015.

Dear Editor, In the interest of ensuring clarity, it is required that further attention be directed to the Guyana Trades Union Congress’ (GTUC) position that while the year-end bonus to public servants was welcome, it failed to adhere to Article 147 of the Guyana Constitution and Section 23 (1) of the Trade Union Recognition Act.

Dear Editor, Is there a 10 year plan to end WI participation as a unit in international cricket?

Dear Editor, In the last six months, and contrary to my better instincts, I have had occasion to peer at the new opposition in action, especially its esteemed leader.

As reported yesterday, the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, on Wednesday, ruled on a border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

Dear Editor, A resident of New York has an unusual economic development plan to harness what he says is one of Albany’s most abundant renewable resources: political corruption.

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Dear Editor, In the article captioned ‘Deplorable conditions and poor care at the Drop-in Centre’ (SN, December 14) your reporter erroneously wrote that the Drop-in Centre was started in 1999 in a building “aback of the Sacred Heart Church.”