Opinion

Dear Editor, The unusual request for a face-to-face meeting with those interested in selling Guyana’s oil and government officials is inexplicable.

Dear Editor, I had cause to share in this publication a couple of weeks ago, some reports and experiences of what prevails outside the Georgetown Public Hospital.

If it were not for the Foreign Minister’s inexperience and lack of familiarity with border questions, it would be difficult to understand how Takuba Lodge could have pursued the chairmanship of the Group of 77 and China at such potential cost to the interests of this nation.

Dear Editor, I would like to express my utter dissatisfaction with the lack of concern displayed by Digicel to our plight as customers.

Dear Editor, On the cusp of the strong possibility of a change of government in Guyana, the Granger caretaker administration has made a number of unbelievably wrong moves in the international arena.

Dear Editor, It is with considerable concern one reads that US Representative Gregory Meeks may soon be visiting Guyana.

Dear Editor, In November 2019 Digicel advertised its Christmas Shopping Spree.

Dear Editor, Every day, countless cats, dogs and other animals suffer and die at the hands of the very people who are supposed to care for and protect them.

Dear Editor, I was a teacher trained at the Lilian Dewar College of Education for secondary teachers and I must confess I learnt more English grammar from a Latin American text for universities.

Dear Editor, The oil business is a risky one. It is always subject to asset maturity and also geopolitics.

The outcome of the British election portends a political shift within the United Kingdom comparable to the ascendancy of President Trump in the United States.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has announced plans to repair/upgrade roads in several villages and housing scheme across the country.

Dear Editor, In a letter in the Stabroek News of December 8th, Mr Tony Vieira, a former legislator and management executive who has worked in the sugar industry for over 40 years, expressed the view that many tragedies appear to be unfolding at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) as it closes its sugar estates and destroying much of the fields’ infrastructure for other purposes as at Wales for rice cultivation.

Dear Editor, The title says it all. Due to a shortfall of beet sugar in the USA, which was caused by weather and other factors beyond the control of growers in that country, there is now a need to increase the level of cane sugar being imported into the USA by four million tonnes!

Dear Editor, Permit me to query once again why our Guyanese accents (on television and radio) must be sacrificed for the American one.

Dear Editor, With 2019 ending, I arrive at a steely conclusion: the local lunatic fringe is now in total charge. 

Most people in this country have probably never heard of the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, as it is better known.