Opinion

Dear Editor, The December 04, Stabroek News in an article concerning the protest actions by sugar workers on December 03 referred to a conversation with an official of the sugar company.

Dear Editor, On Monday, Apache Corporation’s share price plummeted after the company released a “vague” update on the results of its exploration well in Block 58 offshore Suriname.

Dear Editor, The information provided in this document resulted from research originally done by Ras Moses and Jonathan Adams of the Guyana Reparations Committee.

Dear Editor, While the technical and strategizing administrators continue to agonize on crafting workable solutions to the sustainability of the sugar industry, the mentors and strategists of the sugar union leadership are contriving to rub salt in the extant economic and financial wounds of the industry.

Dear Editor, A recent article published on December 3rd in the Washington Post by Francisco Toro titled `What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families?

Earlier this week, it was reported that four men were freed of rape charges, three of whom were accused of raping children, because their accusers could not be located.

Dear Editor, The admission by Minister Raphael Trotman in a Kaieteur Radio interview that Guyana should have got a “way better deal” than the one he negotiated with Exxon for the lucrative Stabroek Block is cold comfort as we come to realise that the Granger Administration has caused Guyana to lose tens of billions of United States Dollars through incompetence.

Dear Editor, What is reported in Stabroek News of December 3, 2019 as a ‘Diplomatic Shake–up’ might well be seen by other informed parties as more of a ‘Shake-Down’ that is inexplicably and unfortunately timed.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a letter published by Stabroek News on the 3rd November, 2019 under the headline ‘Georgetown and its environs will continue to experience yearly flooding as more of its drainage channels become clogged’.

Dear Editor, As we observe 16 days of activism for the elimination of violence against women we must be cognizant of the fact that women and girls living with a disability are at a high risk of becoming victims of non-partner sexual violence.

Dear Editor, “Soca in the Parking Lot.”  I heard with great trepidation of plans to host a “Guyana Carnival” event at MovieTowne on Sunday 8th December. 

Dear Editor, On my route home, coming from the airport, I passed the seawall along the Turkeyen area and was taken aback by the deplorable state of the coconut trees planted along the banks of the seawall.

Dear Editor, I wish to present a few short observations about previous offerings on the naming affair, re the Guyana Archives.

Dear Editor, As the rollicking Christmas Season comes, I thought I would herald its arrival in patriotic style. 

A picture is worth a thousand words, according to the old adage, and this was certainly most applicable to the image which greeted West Indian cricket fans last weekend as they perused the summary of last week’s victory in the one-off Test against Afghanistan. 

Dear Editor, Many have noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appears to be in disarray and are puzzled by the political motive behind staff changes especially since general elections are due in less than three months.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD) joins the United Nations (UN), members of the international and regional disability communities and Guyanese living with disabilities to observe International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD)  today, Tuesday 3rd December 2019.