Dear Editor, This letter is in response to that from Mr Tony Vieira published on December 5, captioned ‘The sugar industry will not recover with this board and management.’
Dear Editor, For the longest while, the new state-of-the-art ambulance that was given to the Kwakwani community is parked in the compound of the Ituni Hospital.
Dear Editor, I am surprised at the extent of coverage awarded to the unnamed Ministry of Finance spokesperson in the article ‘Gov’t denies withholding budgeted funds from public servants’ published in the Stabroek News of December 7.
Dear Editor, The world of Guyana is immovably upside down, and never ceases to amaze.
Dear Editor, I refer to a news item (SN 7 Dec 2013) based on a press release by the Georgetown Solid Waste Management Programme (GSWMP), regarding a proposed awareness television series called “What A Shame”, which referred to “a theme song” being created by Dave Martins for the project.
Dear Editor, I was sad to learn of McDonald Bailey’s death in Trinidad last week at the age of 92.
Dear Editor, Perhaps the best homage that can be paid to Nelson Mandela (Madiba) is the one paid by Albert Einstein to Mahatma Gandhi: “Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this even in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.”
Dear Editor, Nelson Mandela was an enigma: a courageous, humble and kind man who had a vision to make South Africa a rainbow nation.
Dear Editor, I thought that it might be useful to follow up on Tony Vieira’s suggestion that GuySuCo should develop an Other Crops Division.
Gifted with an historic one-seat majority following the November 28, 2011 general elections, the opposition must now do some soul-searching on whether they have managed to employ that advantage for the betterment of the people.
Dear Editor, Your most trenchant editorial under the caption ‘Political pawn’ (Sunday Stabroek December 1) should be required essential reading for the President, each member of the cabinet, each minister and every member of the parliamentary opposition all of whom are asked to appreciate that it concerns the state and fate of Georgetown, the capital city of the Republic of Guyana.
Dear Editor, Guyana should be made aware of the more than commensurate role it played in the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and in the liberation and democratisation of South Africa.
Dear Editor, I write as a follow up to Mr EB John’s letter of December 2, in which he asked the question, “Why Skeldon was at all necessary?”
Dear Editor, I am proposing out of respect for, and to honour one of the greatest men of our times, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to clean and tidy the entire avenue named in his honour.
Dear Editor, Several months ago I got a call from a visiting Guyanese/Canadian businessman.
Dear Editor, The world has lost a genuine statesman and leader in the passing of Nelson Mandela.
Even by the undemanding standards of this country, what happened on Wednesday was exceptional.
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Dear Editor, What to write? How to begin to dare essay the embrace of a legend in his own time, and our times?
Dear Editor, Allow me to reflect on the life of the great Nelson Mandela by quoting from his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.
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