Opinion

Dear Editor, Reference is made to an article which appeared in your newspaper on Nov 11th, 2024, titled `Auditor contracted for third ExxonMobil audit has licence suspended’.

Dear Editor The recent tragic loss of the talented young attorney, Mark Conway, who collapsed while riding in the National Park in Georgetown, should trigger action in his name, to ensure that defibrillators are installed in major public recreation centers and national sports centers; and that the portable ones are available during major sporting events.

Dear Editor, Pension books will soon be distributed to pensioners who will have to go through the musical chairs once more.

Dear Editor, Suppose I tell you, dear Editor, that Guyana is rich but Guyanese are relatively poor.

Dear Editor, As the elected District Leader, and the highest ranking official of Guyanese origin here in Little Guyana, Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City, I have been asked by my Guyanese-American constituents to respectfully request that the Guyana Government disburse the promised GY$100,000 in Richmond Hill, and in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Dear Editor, I loved the cash grant. Psst: didn’t collect, so the past tense (loved) has to do with the announcement made with a clatter of chariots, fanfare of bugles, and then…. 

Dear Editor, Once again, I find myself reading yet another article on the People’s National Congress-Reform (PNCR) gearing up with a “strategic plan” for the upcoming elections.

Dear Editor, Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo during his weekly press conference last Wednesday, October 30, was as comprehensive and incisive as one could be in response to the seemingly inexorable attacks on the administration of the Guyana Police Force, blasting the Opposition parties for their duplicity and accusing them of clutching at straws in a desperate effort to remain relevant.

The October 25 issue of the Stabroek News published a letter written by the Guyana Trades Union Congress’ (GTUC) General Secretary, Lincoln Lewis, following his meeting with the labour movement, the substance of which had to do with the idea of utilizing a section of the Critchlow Labour College’s campus to provide a limited market facility for a  number of vendors and would-be vendors whose trading pursuits were being affected by the encumbering nature of street vending.

Dear Editor, The viability of the export market for Guyana’s liquified natural gas (LNG) has been recently confirmed by a new report from Wood MacKenzie.

Dear Editor, It is necessary that I revisit the proposed construction of this long anticipated twelve storey office complex.

Dear Editor, Desmond Trotman, Charles Corbin and Vincent Alexander (GECOM Commissioners) wrote that “PPP`s capture of GECOM (is continuing unabated).

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your editorial “Mr. Trump and Guyana” (Nov 10).

All over the city, surveillance cameras are being installed atop poles.

Dear Editor, Once upon a time, collecting my Old Age Pension book was quite a pleasant affair.

Dear Editor, I am a senior citizen of this dear land of ours who is being continuously disturbed by the negative manner in which the leading members of the majority party of our government are forever dealing with the suggestions and other contributions of the minority parties, who now form the “Opposition”.

Dear Editor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is scheduled to visit Guyana for two days after attending the Nov 18 and 19th G-20 Summit in neighbouring Brazil.

Dear Editor, I am in the planning stages of gathering authoritative information for my next reference book on Guyana titled “A History of Accounting and Auditing in Guyana: 1854-2024” .

Dear Editor, Allow me to voice my immense admiration for the Government of Guyana and their masterful command of the “supplementary appropriation” – truly the Swiss Army knife of public finance, wielded with skill and dexterity by our leaders to ensure efficiency, expediency, and just the right amount of, shall we say, discretion.