Opinion

Dear Editor, It is my firm belief that it is important for everyone to be aware of the fact that agriculture is currently the world’s leading employer and plays a vital role in the livelihood of 40% of its population.

Dear Editor, On 30 December 2019, Stabroek News reported on a decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice in which the Court opened the way for the parents of a fisherman who died in 2002 by Barama’s negligence to obtain $6.85 million with interest from Barama.

Dear Editor, As March 02, 2020 draws near, we can rest assured that Guyana as we know it will never be the same again.

Dear Editor, I refer to the headline article titled, `Ali maintains he’s no Jagdeo puppet’ (SN December 31).

Dear Editor, In her letter, `Not a ‘misunderstanding of caste’ but how to manage ideology’ (SN 22/12/2019), in her usual cavalier and contemptuous style, Professor Kean Gibson claims that the Hindu belief of reincarnation is the cause for suicide among Hindus.

Dear Editor, As we look to this New Year of 2020, all of us are understandably wondering how our year- delayed elections would turn out, and how much of a boon would the recent commencement of the production of crude petroleum far off our shores, bring us. 

Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) notes with concern, indeed anger, an article published in the Guyana Times newspaper of December 28th, 2019, headlined ‘Guyana’s Govt service most corrupt in the Caribbean – IDB’.

Twenty years ago today, at the stroke of midnight, the turn of the century, world leaders braced themselves for the start of potential chaos within their borders.

Dear Editor, The report titled “ Wait No More: Citizens, Red Tape, and Digital Government” confirms that corruption under the APNU+AFC government is rampant and second to none in the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, Linden is drained by about 20 major or minor creeks, all of which flow into the Demerara River.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a letter in your newspaper dated December 30, 2019: `Child Care and Protection Agency needs institutional strengthening.’

Dear Editor, He has been High Commissioner in London for just three years.

Dear Editor, Weeks after, and mother and father were still in tears, in sympathy with their tearful daughter who had been one of the students that only heard of the abusive wound inflicted by a group of school-mates on one other at her East Coast primary school.

Dear Editor, History will confirm that in the four years and five months of his rule in Guyana, Mr.

Even the most far-seeing of soothsayers might have been disinclined to risk their reputations on venturing a prediction on the condition in which Guyana would find itself going into the third decade of the twenty first century.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank Stabroek News for the investigative report published on December 15th, 2019 titled `Single dad, advocate claim system not set up to support men.’

Dear Editor, Here are my New Year resolutions for my country and its residents: A prompt cessation to the vehicular homicides.

Dear Editor, Now that the election fever is spreading, and politicians are blowing a lot of hot air about how they will develop  the country, flaunting that IMF figure of a 84% growth rate, I might say this to them:   Be careful about bamboozling the common mind by quoting GDP and growth rates and making them sound synonymous with development.