Dear Editor, I refer to a story written by an excellent Guyanese journalist on his website on January 28, 2018, captioned “Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into 1000-odd extrajudicial killings to be named….” But when one digs into the story, it appears that the Granger regime is only inquiring into six years? Guyana’s social cohesion bond was not destroyed in six years, it was deliberately interfered with by both sides since 1963 and maybe a year or two before that, if the history books inform me correctly (Read a book by…
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A direct correlation between crime and unemployment in Guyana
Dear Editor, Wherever you go in the country and speak to business people, large and small, you will be told the same thing: business has slowed to a stop. Many small businesses have been closing their doors because of the fall in people’s purchasing power. This is a clear indication that the economy has stagnated and is even in decline. Thousands are losing their jobs daily. The current news reports are mainly focused on the tragedy of the sugar workers, thousands of whom have been sent home even without severance…
Read MoreContradictions and inconsistencies in Govt’s public information policy
Dear Editor, “We expect ExxonMobil will try to rob us as much as they can, so it is now on us to figure out how best we can defeat them. It is a waste of time at this point saying that they can rob us. That is ABC. That is known. Let us start looking for solutions and safeguards. It is useful in this regard to point out the errors made by other countries and how we can be able to do better.” This quote is taken from the lead…
Read More2018 LGE would confirm AFC’s “dead meat” status
Dear Editor, Khemraj Ramjattan had predicted before the 2015 national elections that his political party, the AFC, would become “dead meat” should it team up with PNC/APNU. Well, it subsequently contested the elections under the banner of APNU/AFC, and with active campaigning by the party’s leader, Ramjattan. Having teamed up with APNU, the AFC claimed that it brought in some 11% of the votes; and the AFC leaders and members were given some 40% of parliamentary seats and ministerial positions in the Granger-led government. The AFC faction was given large…
Read More‘Dreamers’ that manage Georgetown City Council responsible for current mess
Dear Editor, Georgetown our capital city was once famously known as the ‘Garden City, because of its sparkling ponds and canals, tree lined avenues and roadways, flowering plants, hedges, lawns, public gardens and cleanliness. Today I think it would be more appropriate for its signature name to be ‘The City of Big Unrealistic Ideas and Plans that never materialize’ thanks to the dreamers that manage City Hall. Whenever they mess up at the Council or something goes wrong in a major way, you always hear them come out and say…
Read MoreAuthor complies letters to younger self in though-provoking book
By Lakhram Bhagirat We quite often think if we could turn back the hands of time, we would do a lot of things differently. For Guyanese author, Soshinie Singh, it is no different. Her recent book, “The Phoenix Letters”, is a compilation of letters she has written to her younger self. These letters are from deep within, as she writes about love, life, laughter, sadness and time. What began as an Instagram project has now matured into two beautiful books, “The Phoenix Letters” and “The Phoenix Letters Return”. Reading the…
Read MoreMediocre, third-rate pack of political cards must be reshuffled for the national good
Dear Editor, Our Constitution and other laws require the appointment of several Constitutional Commissions and various statutory bodies. The nation expects that the responsible authorities and agencies would act promptly in the appointment of suitably qualified persons without racial, political, or any other discrimination in our plural society of multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural composition. The gross negligence of timely actions by the responsible governing authorities is unacceptable, and must be corrected by the authorities to gain lost trust and respect from large sections of the population. A few examples of…
Read MoreDisappointed at growing hypocrisy of PM Nagamootoo
Dear Editor, I am most perturbed and disappointed by the growing hypocrisy of our Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo. I am now a pensioner. I used to be an ardent follower of the politics of my country, and therefore would have heard enough from this man to draw such a conclusion. I have heard him speaking up to the last elections campaign (2015), when he boasted about his frugal lifestyle, his penchant for a lean and clean government, and his dislike for extravagance. I have listened to him speaking about the…
Read MoreBusses, boats and bicycles not good enough; APNU/AFC must do more
Dear Editor, Recently, the President was seen assisting a toddler in the cutting of a ribbon to hand over a bus which is to be used for transportation of school children. While this is a somewhat nice gesture, I can forthwith tell the President of a better way to help the poor; that is: the reinstatement of the G$10,000 grant for each child in school. That gift by the previous PPP/C Administration was more lasting, and was of more economic benefit to the children of this great country. It made…
Read MoreThose in power seem to be in support of sugar industry’s destruction
Dear Editor, What manner of people are we, to see the suffocation of our Guyanese brothers and sisters in the sugar industry as some of our writers and politicians exhale hot air in the form of words like praxis, uneconomical, impractical; and wax philosophical theorems while entire villages, communities and regions are economically choking — symbolically, metaphorically, and literally — with the unjust termination of sugar workers. Two terminated sugar workers have suffocated themselves so far, evidently collapsing under the weight of poverty, enabled by quote/unquote kith and kin, be…
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