Opinion

Rice record

Amid the political stalemate, rampant crime, the squalor of the city and the dire state of the sugar industry the news about rice output has provided welcome relief.

Petting zoo excellent idea

Dear Editor, In your SN edition Nov 01/13 I read Commissioner of the Protected Areas Commission, Damian Fernandes is planning to have a petting Zoo in the compound of the National Zoo and that most of the animals housed will be rescued animals.

Great Garbage Game

We are coming up to the Christmas season and the central government has decided in its wisdom to inflict on the city another of its periodic garbage crises, this time primarily in the Bourda and Stabroek Markets areas where citizens purchase their food (among many other commodities). 

We call on CARICOM governments to defend Caribbean people in the Dominican Republic in the face of this assault on their very lives

Dear Editor In late September 2013,  the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic made a ruling to deny citizenship to thousands of children, women and men of Haitian origin, many of  whose parents were brought to work in the Dominican Republic’s sugar industry,  and who would have been registered as Dominican.

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