Dear Editor, Please permit me to offer a response to a letter by Tony Vieira in the Stabroek News edition of October 22, 2023, with the caption, “Opposition needs far bigger subvention from budget to effectively do its job”.
Sincerely, Recently our Minister of Public Works was in the media boasting of the completion of a number of concrete bridges along the stretch of road from Kurupukari to Lethem.
Dear Editor, Finally, Vice President Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo and Leader of the Opposition Mr.
Dear Editor, We have all heard the words “Winner take all” used to describe Guyana’s political system.
Dear Editor, We have yet another ‘intelligent’ adult, a former Minister of Government (see SN letter, October 21, 2023), joining the ‘better-for-having-been-beaten brigade’ in support of violence against children.
Dear Editor, It took some time in coming, but ‘better late than never.’
Dear Editor, President Ali has intervened and asked NIS to “close” files by the end of the year.
Dear Editor, Earlier this week, I ran into a true-blue Jaganite old acquaintance from the seventies, who bemoaned that our political discourse is again dominated by “race talk”.
Dear Editor, It is a damning indictment of the PNC administrations 1980-1992 that the Deputy Auditor General for 21 of those months, Anand Goolsarran can explain the absence of audited accounts by simply saying “The fact is that the Government did not submit draft financial statements to the Auditor General.
Dear Editor, Corporal punishment in our schools in Guyana goes back to the earliest days of formal education where it was, for the most part, acceptable in the homes as well as the schools; where there was a correlation of the efforts of parents and educators to discipline students; when teachers enjoyed enormous respect in the community and parents supported them unquestionably and when there was hardly ever any dissent against the use of corporal punishment in schools.
Dear Editor, The Sunday Stabroek editorial of October 8, 2023, titled “Diaspora politics,” evinced willfully ignorant and malicious propaganda from the autocratic PPP ethnocracy and its racist enablers.
Dear Editor, Statistics from the World Bank Group showed that one billion people experience some form of disability.
Dear Editor, Darts for some is not a sport, but a game, yet the interest in darts have grown significantly, not only in Guyana, but the rest of the world, especially in the UK.
Dear Editor, Please allow me on behalf of the members of the University of Guyana Economics Society to express great appreciation to the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry for facilitating the attendance of students of the Economics Society at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) annual regional capital market conference held on October 3 and October 4, at the Pegasus Hotel and Conference Center.
Dear Editor, Nobody believes or accepts the explanation offered for the troop buildup and military exercise at our border about curbing illegal mining on its lands.
Dear Editor, Every Guyanese patriot ought to be concerned about the increased mobilization of the Venezuelan military not far from our western border.
Dear Editor, President Ali and Cabinet Ministers Juan Edghill, Zulfikar Mustapha, Charles Ramson Jr.,
Dear Editor, To ring-fence or not to ring-fence, is now more than the question.
Dear Editor, The recent comments by the head of Exxon Guyana are true, but what he has not mentioned is the time value of money.
Dear Editor, Before workers can gain access to their salaries NIS contributions are deducted, we have no choice in the matter.
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