Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, First, it was the removal of VAT on machinery. 

Dear Editor, I had hoped that having read my letter in Stabroek News of 2022.05.17 and the omission identified therein, Mr.

Dear Editor, The Council of Legal Education recently marked its fiftieth anniversary and one of its eminent alumnus, attorney-at-law, Oscar Ramjeet, is celebrating it with a beautiful magazine that he researched and has now published online.

Dear Editor, I will be grateful if you can publish my response to the article that appeared in Guyana Times headlined: `Former APNU/AFC officials approved payments for non-existent pump house’.

Dear Editor, As we acknowledge “International Museum Day” Wednesday May 18th 2022, the Buxton/Friendship Museum, Archives & Culture Center (BFMACC) joins all museums around the world in celebrating another milestone of such an important day whose theme is “ The Power of Museums” reflecting on (a), “The power of community building through education.”

Dear Editor, News of an attorney withdrawing from the trial of a city businessman allegedly seen kicking his daughter lying on the ground in a store has caught my attention.

Dear Editor, There is need for a strong third force to serve as a counter balance against bad governance as well as the two established political behemoths.

Dear Editor, The strengthening of the laws governing vehicular homicides and drunk driving is most welcome.

Dear Editor, I was horrified to learn recently that the government has effectively brought the GuySuCo cane variety research programme to an end.

Dear Editor, The following is my response to Mr. Jordan’s letter under the caption `The Constitution of Guyana provides four instances in which spending can be undertaken without prior Parliamentary approval’, as contained in yesterday’s issue of the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, I am responding to the main thesis proposed by Dr Muniram Budhu, Professor Emeritus, in his May 15 letter in SN `Gov’t’s intent to transform education must address several fundamental questions’ regarding using windfall profits from the oil and gas boom to transform education in Guyana. 

Dear Editor, It is a matter of deep concern that officials in positions and who assume office at the change of government, when before the parliamentary oversight body on government spending  are unable to answer questions and provide explanations and clarity to queries. 

Dear Editor, I write to respond to the claims of a May 10 letter published in SN titled `No other country but Guyana has ever received such a low royalty and profit sharing and high cost recovery’ that claims once again that Guyana is a “victim” of a bad deal.   

Dear Editor, “Ian on Sunday” eloquently captured a view on governance noting that small issues, ordinary problems, daily grievances ought not to be neglected.

Dear Editor, It feels like yesterday when it was that Chatterpaul and Haresh left us, but it also feels like a decade awaiting justice for these two sons of our soil.

Dear Editor, The London-based Privy Council, the final Appeal Court of several Caribbean nations and also Guyana’s until it was abolished by the tyrant Forbes Burnham, ruled on Monday that the death penalty is not a violation of the constitution of nations where it is law.

Dear Editor, I think I may be a pioneer! Short sharp letters to the editor making the point in two paras or less.

Dear Editor,  The Evidence (Amendment) Bill 2022, Bill No. 3 of 2022 is a repressive piece of legislation the PPP/C Government has laid in Guyana’s Parliament and is not in keeping with our aspirations for a Democratic state.

Dear Editor, Published in Stabroek News of 2022.05.16, was Anand Goolsarran’s Accountability Watch column, “All financial breaches and other irregularities in government must be thoroughly investigated”.

Dear Editor, The transformational aspects in Dr. Muniram Budhu’s letter in SN May 15, 2022 should be followed up as guide for implementing changes in our secondary and tertiary levels of education.