One of Corbin’s greatest legacies will be that of a reformer
Dear Editor, Today, the United States Region of the People’s National Congress Reform (USRPNCR), pays special tribute to the former General Secretary and Leader of the PNC/Reform, Hon.
Letters To The Editor
Mr Rohee’s letter overlooked many other Guyanese and international figures in the October 5th story
Dear Editor, I write to respectfully reject the position advanced by Mr. Clement Rohee in his recent letter, dated October 8, 2026, and captioned “Cheddi Jagan was the central figure in the October 5th story.”
Robert Corbin demonstrated it is possible for political leaders to evolve
Dear Editor, Robert Corbin, who passed on October 4th, the day before the anniversary of the return of free and fair elections in Guyana in 1992, played an outsized role as a leader of the PNC in politics before and after that date.
Pristine T&HD wharf is evidence of farce MV Barima inquiry faces
Dear Editor, I said it early, didn’t I? The PPP Government had to prove me and some other Guyanese right, didn’t it?
Nobel Prize for Judge Pillay honours entire human rights movement
Dear Editor, Please allow me, through the good offices of Kiskadee Watch, to congratulate Judge Navi Pillay, former international judge and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – and my friend – on her richly deserved award of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Families of the MV Barima victims are owed an inquiry they can believe in
Dear Editor, The daughter of a missing MV Barima passenger told the Commission of Inquiry that she has no confidence in the probe.
I support the concerns of Meadowbrook Gardens residents
Dear Editor, In an article published Friday October 9, 2026 in Kiskadee Watch titled “Meadowbrook Gardens residents demand suspension of GPL’s transmission line work”, this group of residents has expressed a concern which we the residents of Lodge housing scheme, share.
President’s speech on debt burden was a dud
Dear Editor, The President’s response on the debt burden Guyana is currently saddled with reminds me of my boyhood days when we would shake the carbon in a can and then apply some fire for it to explode.
Gov’t should be aware that doing business with Colombia comes with risks
Dear Editor, The recent announcement that the Ministry under embattled Minister Edghill’s responsibility is considering working with the Guyana-Colombian Chamber of Commerce to potentially carry out a number of key infrastructural projects raises significant concerns.
We need to truly aim to see ourselves as One Guyana
Dear Editor, “One People One Space One Destiny”. This caught my attention as I listened to the address of the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
350 GuySuCo Head Office employees facing relocation
Dear Editor, It is time for us, as Guyanese, to seriously examine whether the interests and welfare of ordinary citizens remain at the centre of the decisions being made by those entrusted with leadership.
The first half of the Cheddi Jagan October story
Dear Editor, In response to Clement Rohee’s, “Cheddi Jagan was the central figure in the October 5th story,” (KW, October 8, 2026), I would like to remind Rohee that October 5th was actually the second half of the ‘Cheddi Jagan October story’, and were it not for the first half, there would have been no need for a second half.
What Guyanese want to know is how the billion barrels of oil improved their lives and how the next billion will
Dear Editor, The announcement of Guyana’s billionth barrel of oil produced is being touted as a milestone.
Can BK Group do the job and preserve MV Barima?
Dear Editor, I extend personal congratulations to the BK Group for nabbing that $1.034 billion MV Barima salvage award.
Guyana should move aggressively to acquire these decommissioned Point Lisas nitrogen assets
Dear Editor, The recent report on Kiskadee Watch detailing Canadian fertilizer giant Nutrien’s decision to indefinitely shutter its nitrogen operations in Trinidad, placing more than 300 skilled jobs on the line, is a sobering reminder of the shifting energy landscape in the Caribbean.
Cheddi Jagan was the central figure in the October 5th story
Dear Editor, From October 5, 1992, and the present, many Guyanese are only vaguely familiar with the story about October 5,1992, its antecedents and that it was Cheddi Jagan who was the central figure at the time and up to his passing as President in March 1997.
An important record of nationalisation has been restored
Dear Editor, A nation’s institutional memory is important. In the 1970’s a wave of nationalisation swept across Guyana.
What goes for Guyanese peasant must also go for the PPP aristocracy.
Dear Editor, Interested in accountability? There’s a guarantee. Excellency Ali delivered that commitment six years ago.
Mahatma Gandhi’s role in ending indentureship
Dear Editor, Nearly a hundred and ten years (March/May 1917) after the end of recruitment of indentured labourers from India and nearly 106 years after the abolition of indentureship in British colonies, the contribution of Mahatma Gandhi to the campaign against that dehumanizing system remains an important chapter in the history of India and the making of the Indian diaspora that is spread across the globe. The
Special independent prosecutor must be appointed in case of Deputy Commissioner of Police Karimbaksh
Dear Editor, Men in positions of power across the spectrum in Guyana, including those with ministerial positions, or exercising leadership roles in political parties including the political party in Government have to take responsibility and action for their continuing and appalling, disgusting, abusive and criminal behaviour towards women who they work with, or who work for them, who they live with, have relationships with, marry and or have families with.