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,
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.
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.”
Dear Editor,
Wesley Kirton is the latest of many Guyanese – individuals and entities, at home and abroad ‒ who have called for a national conversation on suicide.
Dear Editor,
I am not an engineer; I have served as a construction supervisor commonly known as a Clerk of Works, and I have worked in most of the newly established housing schemes around the country, from Linden to Tuschen to Belfield on the East Coast.
Dear Editor,
The residents of Kwakwani are indeed happy and proud that our school basketball team returned home victorious after the recently concluded National Schools Basketball Championship.