Opinion

Dear Editor, I just finished looking at the power point presentation of the Profile of Guyana- China Timber Industry Economic and Trading Cooperation Park, which was alluded to in your news item, ‘Bai Shan Lin holds 960,000 hectares of forest’ (May 5).

Dear Editor, GPL is pulling wool over the eyes of their customers and telling then it is high-tech contact lenses.

Dear Editor, President Jacob Zuma and the ANC-led South African Government’s decision to name Forbes Burnham as a recipient of The Order of the Companions of O R Tambo award, South Africa’s highest award for foreign nationals, has proven to be a terrible miscalculation.

Dear Editor, One of the main reasons that the current budget means something to me, is the questionable manner in which former president Jagdeo’s administration, and now President Ramotar’s regime have been showing media bias, and more particularly, apparent favouritism in the granting of licences for radio stations and cable channels to operate in Guyana.

Dear Editor, In the wake of the brief exchange between yours truly and Mr Khemraj Ramjattan on the issue of the AFC’s support of the Sports and Arts Fund, I am happy to announce that the party has re-engaged me in advising where I can and I am qualified to do so.

President Obama visited Mexico and Costa Rica last week, and in Costa Rica had a meeting with the leaders of Central America, indicating the emerging priorities of his second term as far as that geopolitical arena is concerned.

Dear Editor, Arrival Day which was observed on May 5 is a good time to reflect on the difficult road we have traversed as a people and the challenges that lie ahead as we strive to forge a peaceful and cohesive society.

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your daily publication to comment on a report entitled ‘No short-term solution to the overtopping of the seawall  -say engineers’ appearing in the Sunday Stabroek of May 5.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in the Stabroek News of May 5, captioned ‘Scouring of foreshore from the earlier overtopping and severe wind caused the latest overtopping of the sea defences.’

Dear Editor, Through your columns, Editor, I would like to ask the Minister for Natural Resources and the Environment for clarification after his evasive responses to your reporter about the expansionist Bai Shan Lin (BSL) in our forest sector (‘Bai Shan Lin holds 960,000 hectares of forest,’ Sunday Stabroek May 5). 

Dear Editor, Stabroek News of Saturday, May 4, in a news item quoted Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the PNCR and Chairman of APNU Mr David Granger as saying that “Burnham was not responsible for the murder of Walter Rodney.”

Dear Editor, The campaign to deny Guyana’s late President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham South Africa’s Order of the Companions of O R Tambo Award, is deserving of exposure. 

Dear Editor, Stella Ramsaroop writes in Stabroek News weekly preaching to the Guyanese public what they should or should not do. 

It took almost ten years since the passage of the Small Business Act in the National Assembly in 2004 for us to come as close as we now appear to be to the allocation of meaningful financial resources to the development of the small business sector.

Dear Editor, I am a teacher in need of your help.

Dear Editor, As a dog lover, I understand Mr Calvin Benjamin’s grief over the loss (hopefully temporary) of his beloved pooch, ‘Pal.’

Dear Editor, Good seed paddy is essential for productive agriculture. There is a shortage of basic seed paddy at the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Anna Regina, for rice farmers in Region Two.

Dear Editor, There’s a saying: “nothing happens nothing said,” but this is far from the story I’m about to talk about.

Dear Editor, The government’s plans to encourage economic growth through direct taxpayer investment in infrastructure are unconvincing, and will lead to higher costs for consumers and bigger financial burdens on the taxpayers.