Opinion

The northern Colombia city of Cartagena de Indias, the location of the 6th Summit of the Americas, and once a major slave-trading port and subsequently the home of large numbers of people of African descent, would certainly have been of interest to leaders of Caribbean states attending the conference.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Mr Dimitri Allicock, to his great credit, has circulated an e-mail which draws public attention to the fact that within two weeks the City of Georgetown should be observing the 200th anniversary of its name change.

Dear Editor, I believe Mr Ram did not do a comprehensive analysis prior to determining that the shares sold by the government were undervalued (Business Page, April 15).

Dear Editor, I note the letter from Mr Raj Singh (“a concerned parent/educator”) in the Sunday Stabroek of April 15 captioned: ‘Sunday Stabroek Grade Six Practice Test Papers were an abomination.‘

Dear Editor, The Minister for Natural Resources and the Environment has published a few extra data on mis-management of purpleheart timber in the article ‘Purpleheart not being unsustainably managed – Persaud’ (Stabroek News, April 16, 2012). 

Dear Editor, KN of April 13, 2012, under the caption, ‘Brazilian company to develop ethanol plant at Albion Estate,‘ reported as follows: “Critical to such a venture is a successful sugar industry and the Agriculture Minister is optimistic about the future of GuySuCo, since according to him, the company is successfully confronting the challenges it is currently facing.”

Politikles

What is now clear about events in Syria is that the government of Bashar al Assad may have already come to terms with the inevitability of its demise.

Dear Editor, The government has announced a six hundred dollars increase on the old age pension from May this year and probably that has prompted Banks DIH to increase their prices at the food outlets, in some cases by one hundred per cent.

Dear Editor, Reasoning and writing as a West Indian academic, I believe to my brittle bones that the crisis of West Indies cricket performance is first and foremost a crisis of political governance and intellectual disenchantment. 

Dear Editor, There is this saying, ‘If one wants to know how humane a nation is, examine how it treats its vulnerable groups, especially the disabled, children and the elderly.‘

Dear Editor, For thirty years I have studied the reasons for failure of a high proportion of “Development” projects in Guyanese Amerindian areas.

Dear Editor, In all the furore and noise surrounding CJ Chang and his ruling in the Greene case, let us not lose sight of two things: a.

Dear Editor, In his excellent letter of April 5, (‘The Greene case is a manifestation of a socio-cultural phenomenon‘) Abu Bakr wrote, “the point that remains is that ‘rape’ in all of its definitions, is facilitated and covered up by a certain way of life, certain values, liberties and the ambient immorality.

Dear Editor, There are continuing calls for across-the-board pay increases. One cannot deny the need and wisdom for pay to at least keep pace with contextual changes in, for example, inflation, cost-of-living, productivity and profitability.

With World Press Freedom Day approaching on May 3rd, the collective mind of the press will be focused on the restraints that continue to be in place on the media and the government’s own approach to openness.

Dear Editor, Look at the speed that police cars travel when they accompany a minster‘s car.

Dear Editor, Reform of the electricity supply in Linden was recognized as necessary, and was promulgated in mid-1976 by the then Prime Minister, Linden F S Burnham.