Year: 2015

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News reported that “China ready to work with Guyana on renewable energy, infrastructure” (Friday, November 6, 2015). This is very good news which came out of a meeting held between the Chinese Ambassador Zhang Limin, President David Granger, Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge, Governance Minister Raphael Trotman and Minister of State Joseph Harmon. The Chinese Ambassador says his Government will be working closely with Guyana in the areas of renewable energy and infrastructural development. But the Granger Government needs to seriously take note of the generosity…

Dear Editor, It was disturbing to learn, according to a report in the November 4, 2015 edition of Stabroek News, that GuySuCo’s CEO advised that the Corporation failed to produce about 6000 tonnes sugar arising from the sugar workers three-day protest action. The goodly gentleman, who has worked for many years in sugar, could not have been truthful as he is fully well aware that the disclosure is misleading. The three-day strike was from Sunday to Tuesday. It is a known fact that even in the best of times, turnout…

Dear Editor, Minister Ramjattan has so far rolled out three “master plans” for fighting crime that was totally useless and scientifically baseless. First he started with the now unpopular “2AM curfew” where he said that it would have reduced crime, road accidents, domestic violence and generate a better workforce all at once. From his perspective this was his silver bullet on the crime fighting front. As we can see now, the Minster had never provided any data to back up his position and in an ironic twist, he is now…

Dear Editor, I am hoping that the Guyana Teachers Union soon sees it fit to support the call from various sections of our society for the total ban of corporal punishment in our schools. For many years as a teacher and headmaster in schools in four regions of Guyana, I was a part of the system in which the cane was accepted as the most effective instrument of penalty for transgressions by students. This was so because teachers saw it as the fastest and most accessible method, which was tolerated…

Dear Editor, They say “time longer than twine” so it had to happen sooner than later. I have lived to see the Kaieteur News itself admit that its circulation has dropped so low that it has resorted to giving it away free. It has been doing this to the vendors all across the country on the down low, but it is clear that this has not stopped the bleeding. On Tuesday, it had to admit in muted headlines, “Rubis rewarding customers with free copy of Kaieteur News”. Seems that KN…