Year: 2016

Dear Editor, I appreciate sentiments expressed in EB John’s letter, “Kanhai was a great Guyanese – not Indo-Guyanese ? cricketer”, (SN 07-01-15). Mr John was responding to Prof Clem Seecharran’s SN news item, “Rohan Kanhai: Indo-Guyanese Hero Turns 80” (25-12-15). Mr John was correct in stating that when Guyanese like Kanhai and Lloyd played cricket for the country or the WI team, we did not see their ethnicity – we saw them as Guyanese cricketers. Mr John, however, fails to garner that one’s ethnic background is an important frame of…

Dear Editor, With suicide becoming more prevalent in our society, it must be clear that we need to do much more towards its prevention. I now think that, because teenagers form the largest group of victims of this terrible scourge, it is time for all our young people to ask themselves what they can do to stop their fellow teens from even considering it as a solution to any problem they may encounter. It is a fact that every problem, no matter how unsolvable it may appear on the surface,…

Dear Editor, The security and first line of defence of a family are the very members of that family, buffered by the culture and individual and collective consciousness of that unit. In fact, history tells us that as far back as 3000 BC, the head of a family was also the head of the security arrangement in that family and all able-bodied members of the family were its defenders. The same holds good for any organisation: club, business, church, etc. In some countries “Neighbourhood Watch”, comprising residents within laid-out wards,…

Dear Editor, I speak for most Guyanese when I appeal for unity in our beloved country. But if most of us want unity, why is the line on unity not yet mended? At least we need a starting point and I would like to suggest we start from the promises made by APNU/AFC and PPP/C during the last elections. On the campaign trail the current government promised a new start, to turn a new page and move forward. A very progressive and promising message that implied one important and game…

Dear Editor, Minister Khemraj Ramjattan is reported to have stated he is going after former Finance Minister Ashni Singh over the release of some Gy$4.5 billion that was used for various Government projects. The Minister transferred the State funds for public use in his capacity as a Minister without parliamentary approval. In New York, my AFC friends told me that their party’s leadership promised them that criminal charges will be filed against Dr Singh for spending money without parliamentary approval. In fact, right after the APNU/AFC was sworn in last…