Month: November 2013

Dear Editor, The People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/ C) recently disclosed their intentions to iron out societal issues, with their main focus on matters of indiscipline. Addressing such matters is not always an easy task but it is nevertheless a remarkable step to aid in the decrease in corruption. Too frequently, young boys can be seen idling aimlessly around the streets of the city. This sometimes is seen as the first step towards criminality, particularly since many of these young boys resort to using drugs and engaging themselves in other…

Dear Editor, At an international level, reporters are taking the necessary precautions to keep their sources from becoming causalities in ongoing political wars. Many government sources resort to one on one meetings rather than phone calls and emails. It has been evident in Guyana’s media outlets that some journalists function in fear of what malicious individuals are capable of. Forefront criminal activities associated with those who spend their time chastising the government has given reporters a legitimate reason to fear. Just recently, after exposing anti-government forces, a few reporters proceeded…

Dear Editor, This is in reference to your editorial “India Elections” (November 8). I travel to India regularly (and Indian diaspora societies like Fiji, Mauritius, Trinidad, Durban, et cetera as part of my ongoing studies) and keenly follow its political development in my readings as well is in my conversations with academics and politicians. Everywhere I went, people have been clamouring for political change in India. In conversations, they told me they are fed up with the ruling poor Congress-led UP government over poor governance and massive corruption. The opposition…