Opinion

Sooner, hopefully rather than later, government and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) will sit down together again to see through the satisfactory settlement of what has become the difficult issue of settling on a mutually agreed offer to teachers in relation to their salaries, allowances and other conditions of service given a universal acceptance of the reality that there is a gap,  a considerable one, between the service that teachers give to this nation and the extent of the material reward that they receive. 

Dear Editor, The University of Guyana takes this opportunity to respond to the article by Freddie Kissoon, titled `Dr Mark Kirton is livid, confused and wants to know what’s going on’, carried in the Kaieteur News on August 29, 2018.

Dear Editor, The Council of Legal Education (CLE) which is responsible for managing professional legal education in the Caribbean is set to meet in Guyana from September 6 – 8,  2018.  

Dear Editor, At his recently held press conference, President Granger blithely claimed that the Carter Formula for the Chairman of GECOM has outlived its efficacy and should be replaced by some amorphous, ‘I don’t know what’ ‘You guess what’ ‘ who knows what’ body.

Dear Editor, Full credit must go to the teachers and their union for finally standing up to this oppressive Granger regime. 

Dear Editor,  I refer to Dr. Mark Devonish’s letter published in the Stabroek News on Saturday, 25th August, 2018.

Dear Editor, Antigua and Barbuda, and Grenada are to hold referenda on the same day – November 6 – to decide whether or not to accept the Caribbean Court of Appeal (CCJ) as their final court.

Dear Editor, I believe Guyanese musicians are missing an opportunity teeming with potential to catapult Guyanese music and musicians onto the regional and international stage and establish a money making industry for themselves and Guyana.

Dear Editor,  It seems we have become so inured to inefficiencies in Guyana that the current erratic DSL internet service in Georgetown is simply accepted as “normal”. Even

Dear Editor, In responding to the striking teachers’ demands for salary increases, Junior Minister of Social Protection, Keith Scott said the teachers are “selfish and uncaring” (yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek).

Dear Editor, It was heart-wrenching to hear of yet another accident on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

President Granger’s statement on Friday at his third press conference since taking office three years ago that the government is now seeking to mobilise funds to make a better pay offer to teachers is cause for great concern. 

Dear Editor I seek space in your newspaper to publicly articulate my concerns related to the decision by the University of Guyana (UG) to award honorary doctoral degrees at its convocation later this year.

Dear Editor, I respond to a critique of my views on the WPA by Tacuma Ogunseye in the Stabroek News edition of August 31.

Dear Editor, I have been reading in the news media about the audit of ExxonMobil’s US$460 million/$900 million pre-contract costs.

Dear Editor, The WPA attack on Jaipaul Sharma is unacceptable. The WPA is being petty and partisan.

Dear Editor, It is well known that nepotism, cronyism and favouritism have had adverse effects on an organization’s atmosphere wherever it exists, and at the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown it is no different.

Dear Editor, One night last week she was speaking to a Guardian audience of 950 and received a standing ovation; the next night to an audience of 50 at the Guyana High Commission in London.