Opinion

Dear Editor, When will someone in authority realize that there is a critical need for a Commission of Inquiry to be held into the workings of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown? 

Dear Editor, There are slippages in this society that must be arrested as matter of urgency.

Dear Editor, “Hear ye, hear ye!” It hath been decreed by the Queen and King of the City that henceforth in August, 2018 there shall be a City Week celebration costing nineteen million dollars.

Dear Editor, There is an increasing meaner edge to life these days; a palpable grimness. 

Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix has failed on four occasions this year to appear before the parliamentary Sectoral Committee for Foreign Relations when requested to do so.

Dear Editor, The IMF stated that mistakes were made in the setting up of contracts which would allow for benefits to Guyana.

Dear Editor, The learned authors of Erskine May, Parliamentary Practice, 12th Edition posit thus: “The chief characteristics attaching to the office of Speaker in the House of Com-mons are authority and impartiality….

Dear Editor, Legal historians will tell us that in the British Colony of then British Guiana, on the 21st August 1843 there was an etymological change from “Town” to “City”: Georgetown the Town became George-town the City.

Dear Editor, I see Dr Mark Bynoe has returned to continue his contribution to nation building.

Dear Editor, Words are not enough to express gratitude to Sister Admirabilis Browne who has passed on to her heavenly abode.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News July 24, 2016 article, titled `Dr.

Dear Editor, The following is a response to enquiries about pensionable age as recommended by the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service.

Earlier this week Apple became a trillion dollar company, an estimate close to the combined value of America’s ‘big four’ banks, and the single highest valuation for a company in history.

Dear Editor, Sometime ago I heard in the news that the oldest bread was discovered in Jordan.

Dear Editor, The literature on the Resource Curse, summarised by Frederick van der Pleog of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies in his article “Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing,” is clear that resource rich countries do not all experience strong growth and enhanced development. 

Dear Editor, Before the African Culture and Development Association (ACDA), there was the League of Coloured Peoples (LCP), who incidentally organised their first exhibition of art and craft (much like Wednesday 1st August) at what was then the British Guiana Cricket Club Ground, east of Queen’s College on Thomas Road – space on which ACDA is accommodated.

Dear Editor, I refer to headlines lately about the release, to planned infrastructural projects in Guyana, of Norwegian money allocated some years ago.

Dear Editor, Permit me to bring to the attention of readers the good news that the Guyana United Artists (GUA) has been selected as a recipient of the 2018 Guyana Cultural Association of New York award.