From GPL blusterer to Wales gas-to-energy bamboozler
Dear Editor, A solid editorial on Thursday “GPL and presidential bluster” (KW, Sept 17-26). Probing, comprehensive, revealing.
Letters To The Editor
If there is any sense of justice these three men should be released immediately
Dear Editor, At the risk of being tedious I cannot help expressing disgust at the way Captain Price of the MV Barima, Roberts and Granderson employees of the Transport and Harbours Department have been held for murder.
Guyana should focus on expanding trade with the EU and Canada
Dear Editor, As Canada strengthens its partnership with the European Union, we too as a nation must also pursue a similar strategy to diversify and strengthen our trade partnerships.
Opposition members should show up at these meetings with the President and report back to the people
Dear Editor, A quick perusal of the core definition of parliamentary sectoral committees – of which many exist in countries that were once colonies – shows it is to help the legislature manage its workloads and hold the government accountable in specific policy areas.
Fanciful statement by President on food production
Dear Editor, In a recent interview His Excellency President Irfaan Ali stated that he wanted Guyana to be the most powerful food producer in the world in 10 to 20 years.
India had opportunity to be permanent member of UN Security Council
Dear Editor, I write to provide some historical background and give clarity to comments in a missive captioned, “Setting the record straight on Guyana’s position on the Chinese seat at the UN” (Kiskadee Watch September 13) by Hamilton Green on Guyana’s position of replacing Taiwan with China with the Permanent Seat on the UN Security Council.
President Ali does not seem to understand the difference between renegotiation and contract sanctity
Dear Editor, President Ali’s recent interview on Al-Jazeera was embarrassing. He does not seem to understand the difference between renegotiation and sanctity of contract.
Absence of shared agenda, supporting documentation cannot reasonably excuse opposition boycott
Dear Editor, At some point, political opposition stopped being principled scrutiny and became obstruction for obstruction’s sake.
Reliable energy abundance for Guyanese has been caught in geopolitical crossfire of world’s superpowers
Dear Editor, The following statement has become a national anthem: Guyana stands today as the world’s most dynamic emerging petrostate.
Guyana’s extraordinary oil wealth presents an extraordinary responsibility
Dear Editor, Guyana has arrived at a defining moment in its history. The country is becoming extraordinarily wealthy from its natural resources, while its people remain politically and ethnically divided and increasingly confronted with decisions that will determine who benefits from that wealth and how it is used.
If President Ali is powerless to clinch a better oil deal he should be decent enough leave office
Dear Editor, President Ali had a moment of insight visit. The Exxon contract is bad (“Ali again agrees Exxon contract was bad, but still rules out rejigging” -KW, Sept 14-2026).
Gov’t must make supplementary cash grant of $170,000 to each Guyanese aged eighteen and over
Dear Editor, The Mid-Year Report dated August 28 (?) contains a figure that deserves attention. In paragraph 3.64, the Minister responsible for Finance projects petroleum deposits into the Natural Resource Fund of US$6,497.6 million for 2026.
APNU MPs prepared to meet with President but there must be clear agenda, meaningful exchanges
Dear Editor, As the APNU Members of Parliament serving on the Foreign Relations and Economic Services Committees, we have no difficulty participating in a properly planned and organised meeting with the President aimed at advancing the interests of the Guyanese people.
Guyana must ensure that its labour market remains competitive while protecting workers from exploitation
Dear Editor, As a public communications analyst and a citizen who has lived outside of Guyana for more than twenty years, I believe we need to have a serious national conversation about the labour crisis currently developing in Guyana.
Clear from Al Jazeera interview that President needs to better understand our current situation, capabilities
Dear Editor, In our President’s recent interview with Al Jazeera, he stated that he wanted Guyana to be “the most powerful food producer in the world” in 10 to 20 years.
Killing at Triumph resulted from loud music, drinking at Chinese supermarket
Dear Editor, A young man was shot and killed by a security guard on Saturday night, in front of the Smiling Supermarket on Triumph Line top.
Gov’t has to own and fix its failures
Dear Editor, The Government must stop treating every critic as an enemy and every national failure as someone else’s fault.
Social and community development shouldn’t become so closely tied to one corporation
Dear Editor, Is ExxonMobil Guyana increasingly becoming perceived not simply as ExxonMobil operating in Guyana, but as “ExxonMobil & Guyana”?
The Houthis have risen and Trump is in a vise
Dear Editor, U.S. President Donald Trump planned well, convinced he had the right plot. The outcomes have not bowed to his will, as he had imagined.
President’s trip to this war-torn region was ill-advised
Dear Editor, The recent visit to Qatar by the President and First Lady did make our country vulnerable.