Opinion

Dear Editor, As I look around the wreckage that embodies the political landscape, I realize that what was once a motley assemblage of the local lunatic fringe has since expanded into a staggering national phenomenon. 

Dear Editor, This is to correct an erroneous report in the press about the leadership of the Justice for All Party (JFAP).

Dear Editor, Last evening (Sunday 2 December), I had the pleasure of flying to Guyana on American Airlines’ new direct service from Miami.

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing the letter by Ms Phyllis J Jordan `PM overstepped authority on cross dressing ruling – SN 30 Nov, 2018’.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the news report “No-confidence motion should be debated before budget” (SN Nov 20),   the editorial “Another no-confidence motion” (SN Nov 19),  other commentaries and reports that that appeared on  November 16, 17, 23, 28, 29.

Dear Editor, I felt like a Rip Van Winkle when, as I was browsing some past magazines from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development in England, I came across an article titled: “Alarming Rise in Modern Slavery” in the October 2016 issue.

There are things about the findings of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) set up to probe the administration of City Hall that are acutely disturbing though, frankly, not altogether surprising.

Dear Editor, Your Sunday December 2, 2018 edition carries a report in which Public Infrastructure Minister Mr.

Dear Editor, Once more into the breach we keep falling. The evidence leading thereto, so far as compensation management in the public sector is concerned, cumulates to the conclusion that there is too little understanding by the relevant agencies of the basic principles to be observed in the formulation of salary structures, and the application of attendant normal periodic adjustments (increases).

Dear Editor, Dr Jan Mangal, reminds of General Douglas MacArthur. Speaking to soldiers, MacAthur said:  “Duty, Honor, Country —those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

As budgets go, the $300.7b one presented by Finance Minister Winston Jordan last Monday isn’t much different from its predecessors or indeed those of the previous government in their main constructs.

Dear Editor, In March 2016, Guyanese were given an opportunity to vote in the first Local Government Elections (LGE) after a 22-year hiatus.

Dear Editor, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is medicine that can reduce the chance of getting HIV by more than 90% and can reduce the chances even more when combined with condoms.

Dear Editor, LGE (results) are all the rage currently.  Like most fads, this one will fade into vague memory soon enough.

Dear Editor, Please permit me the space in your column to highlight a disease that has agonised the Guyanese political cognition for far too long.

Dear Editor, Georgetown has got a new Mayor in the person of Pandit Ubraj Narine.

Dear Editor, SN’s article of November 27, 2018 on the crumpled negotiations between UG’s Administration and the related Unions, makes for interesting, if not, at least, confusing reading.

In this country, people are rarely surprised by what their politicians say.