Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, A contract for the construction of a Pump Station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, Region #3, was awarded to Tepui Group Inc.

Dear Editor, Tepui Group Inc., was the tenth highest bidder and the sixteenth-lowest for the construction of a pump station at Pouderoyen; One Hundred and Twenty-Four Million Nine Hundred and Fifty-Nine Thousand higher than the lowest bidder ($124,959,000) to be exact and yet, were inexplicably awarded the contract.

Dear Editor, The silence from the Private Sector Commission (PSC), the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI) and the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association Ltd.

Dear Editor, One continues to wonder about how autocratic this “Democracy” can be.

Dear Editor, I note in SN and KN that Opposition MP, David Patterson, has written to the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to investigate the GY$865 million contract award for a pump station.

Dear Editor, After fifteen rounds of voting and in less than a year, US Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been booted in an unprecedented revolt, even supported by that side of the House he struck a deal with to avoid a government shutdown.

Dear Editor, October 5 marks 31 years since the restoration of democratic rule to Guyana after twenty-eight years of PNC dictatorial rule.

Dear Editor, I begin by quoting from pp 667 of Cheddi Jagan’s ‘The West on Trial’ epilogue 3: “We do not share the view that politics in Guyana is cast in rigid racial/ethnic compartments and that allegiances would never change.

Dear Editor, President Ali’s announcement of housing loans for teachers is a good strategy in an overall teacher retention plan, in addition to honouring all Collective Bargaining agreements with the teachers’ union.

Dear Editor, It is not easy for a Guyanese born before the turn of the millennium to be objective in the context of race in relation to politics in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Demerara Bank in Diamond is the only bank of the three that are adjacent and in close proximity to the other, and which encashes the  monthly NIS pension of the aged.

Dear Editor, In one of his Tuesday’s articles, GHK Lall notified us that he plans to piggyback on SN’s Cost-of-Living Series “to continue taking the pain of the poor in Guyana and give it prominence before political leaders who avert their eyes, and harden their hearts.”

Dear Editor, With every passing year the significance of October 5th 1992 will recede more and more into the limbo of our country’s political history.

Dear Editor, The teachers have spoken loud and clear! Give us increases in allowances, preferably tax free.

Dear Editor, On the 3 October 1899, 124 years ago, on an autumn morning in Paris, some of the world’s most distinguished jurists listened to a description of the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela.

Dear Editor, Respectfully, the reference in your Sunday editorial that ‘[I]n 2016 the ICJ ruled China’s claims in contravention of the International Convention on the Law of the Sea’, and the repeated reference that China ‘can dismiss a decision by the World Court’, which is the forum from which all Guyana currently awaits a decision in our territorial controversy, is erroneous.

Dear Editor, We are grateful if you can publish our grave concerns affecting all NIS pensioners.

Dear Editor, We born, we grow up, we work to pay taxes then we get old and are put out to pasture, literally.

Dear Editor, You can talk until the cows come home but if you do not have unity as a people, others wouldn’t respect you.

Dear Editor, The cost-of-living is unconscionable; it is driving poor Guyanese into deliriums and hallucinations.