Opinion

Dear Editor, Whenever one is faced with an explanation of what is going on at the Georgetown Municipality, the choice is always between incompetence, corruption and conspiracy.

Dear Editor, With the exception of Mr Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, no leader of the government in Guyana has ever focused specific attention on the importance of teachers, and the necessity for a salary to meet needs and offer a quality life.

Dear Editor, I observe with mixed emotions, the sentiments expressed by retired Justice James Patterson, the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), as reported in the press recently.

Dear Editor, You know that feeling you get when you’ve been rooted in one place for a very long time?

Dear Editor, I would usually welcome and embrace any call by anyone, from any place, at any time, to remove prejudice from the midst of thinking, visions, and practices. 

Dear Editor, With  information recently coming to the fore, some as a result of the long overdue and recently launched Commission of Inquiry into the operations of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown, I believe that the need has become even more critical for the recently reconstituted Integrity Commission to turn its attention to the policymakers and administrative officials of the Georgetown Municipality, if it is to improve public confidence in the integrity of persons holding senior positions at City Hall.

Best practices in modern governance require careful scrutiny of the private interests of elected officials – particularly ministers – to ensure that there is no actual conflict, or even an appearance of one, if, indeed, the government in question intends to maintain the highest standards of probity.

Dear Editor, It has become very difficult, if not impossible, to see cricket on TV in Canada anymore.

Dear Editor, Reference is being made to Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman’s comments in articles, “Gov’t looking at ‘replacement’ for Rusal – Trotman” and “Local Rusal workers in limbo” (SN: 3rd October and 24th September 2018, respectively).

Dear Editor, At a press conference on Friday, October 5, 2018, Guyana Elections Commission Chairman, Justice (Ret’d) James Patterson, seems to have adopted the tactic of making unsubstantiated charges about ‘racial conflict’, and efforts to stymie the holding of Local Government Elections (LGE) at the level of the Commission itself, and external to it.

Dear Editor, In response to a Letter to the Editor, published in the Stabroek News of Thursday, October 4, 2018 and headlined, ‘GPL should honour promises made to Buxton residents’, the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL Inc.)

Dear Editor, Some people enter your life very quietly and over time, their presence becomes a part of your daily life.

Dear Editor, As a citizen, I face the disappointment of, I guess, other citizens in trying to obtain a simple phone battery.

Perhaps what strikes people most about the current government is its apparent lack of capacity for planning.

Dear Editor, The October 4th edition of the Stabroek News reported that President David Granger told attendees at a meeting held at the Corriverton Primary School on October 3rd, “…that his government had no choice but to close sugar estates…”.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to an article published in the Stabroek News, October 3, 2018 edition, headlined “Too much time being wasted on prepping criminal case files – SOCU adviser tells investigators, prosecutors.”

Dear Editor, If a lawyer or anyone from the PUC is reading this letter, please advise me how I can sue GTT for harassment.

Dear Editor, Whilst purchasing tickets for the circus, I observed the ticket sellers having a hard time making change with Guyana’s currency, thus the line moved very slowly and many people vented their anger.