Opinion

Dear Editor, I strongly believe that the Alliance For Change running independently at the upcoming local government elections is a great decision and Linden only stands to benefit.

Although the world has experienced much worse, recent events involving inclement weather conditions have caused much consternation, particularly last Friday’s earthquake and tsunami in eastern Indonesia.

Dear Editor, On my recent visit to the Police Headquarters in Brickdam where I was pursuing the enforcement of a warrant, I was very surprised to see the lack of infrastructural investment in the police’s facilities.

Dear Editor, The recent hubbub that has surfaced about the contentious leasing of a Sussex Street Wharf by the ‘King of the City’ to a shipping company whilst the municipality is not the bona fide owner of that property, speaks to the exploitation, duplicity and bullyism that occurs on a daily basis at City Hall, and is the mere tip of the iceberg of many such improprieties that exist within that institution.

Dear Editor, For the past two weeks, rice farmers from the upper Hague settlement rice cultivation area have been making demands for drainage of their rice fields through our main irrigation canal, which has been a disadvantageous request to those of us at the lower end of the settlement because the irrigation canal passes through the entire settlement from south to north.

Dear Editor, As part of its Crime Prevention Strategy, the Guyana Police Force is hereby releasing to the general public, crime prevention tips.

Dear Editor, I am disgusted and angered by the recent replacement of the head teacher of South Amelia’s Ward Nursery School in Linden.

Last Friday, just eight days after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) voted to reinstate the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), the Canadian newspaper, The Toronto Star, broke a story that the most famous doping incident in Olympic history, the Ben Johnson scandal, appears to have been constructed around a series of questionable laboratory procedures.

Dear Editor, I again have to remind the public, the authorities and the persons pretending to function in the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority that since a legal challenge essentially addresses the legality of the Broadcast Authority and is sub judice in the Guyana Court of Appeal, unless it is heard, there can be no functioning Broadcast Authority.

Dear Editor, Having read the letters of George N. Cave (SN 30th September and 1st October, 2018) the opportunity is being taken to attend to the germane issue of whether the Minister of Social Protection can appoint a chairperson to the Guyana Teachers’ Union and Ministry of Education’s arbitration panel.

Dear Editor, Over the past week, people have been asking me some very interesting questions; some persons are of the view that I seem to be taking a strong position on matters and they are asking questions such as, where am I getting my motivation from?

Last Friday, the Guyana Chronicle reported that Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin had indicated that his Ministry was “in the advance(d) stages” of preparation for the introduction of the Small Business Procurement Programme, the provision under the 2004 Small Business Act for small businesses to access 20 per cent of state contracts.

Dear Editor, More than once I’ve written about local produce, mainly vegetables and fruits, being laced with toxic chemicals and before the timeframe for these chemicals to finish their processes expires, they are available on the markets.

Dear Editor, I note the editorial captioned, “Arbitral chairperson” in the September 30th edition of the Sunday Stabroek.

Dear Editor, I am writing to raise concerns regarding a very distasteful situation in the Ministry of Education and the Department of Education, Region 5 Now that senior promotions have been finalised, there is a messy situation involving the Number 8 Secondary School.

Dear Editor, Now that the PNC has had a chance to declare their results from their Congress, the confirmed results were astonishing. 

The chaos in the sugar sector under the APNU+AFC government might have been easily dismissed were it not for the fact that it has upturned the lives of thousands of former GuySuCo employees and the future of many more hangs in the balance.