Opinion

Dear Editor, First off let me correct Mr Dereck Chin, the Government did not build my road, we took a dam, and build it into what it is now, at a cost of over $400,000,000 of our own money, this includes, sidewalk, drainage, and street lighting along with bus shed.

Dear Editor, In the article titled, GRA finding major breaches of tax concession pacts’ Commissioner- General Godfrey Statia is quoted as saying, “I have no friends when it comes to collection of taxes and no one dare call to ask me favours.

Dear Editor, I see quite a bit of attention being given to solar power in our news media specifically to our rural areas as possible sources of primary power for hinterland villages such as Mabaruma.

Dear Editor, Philosophically, I have a problem with some people being given preferential treatment over others, especially when it comes to health care delivery.

Dear Editor, Another breach, another flooding,  millions in losses and disruption of  lives to residents, another blame game in full force and the regional authority is entirely blameless.

Dear Editor, An hypothesis: if my good friend Dr. Steve Surujbally was still Chairman of GECOM and had cast his vote for Vishnu Persaud would the PPP have expected any other political party to trumpet “racial bias”?

Dear Editor,  It is very sad that I am being forced to defend my integrity against attempts to vilify me in the public domain. 

Dear Editor, On June 16, 2018 the SN published a letter headlined `Enforcement of law on transporting long piles will affect construction industry’ in which the author complained about the police harassing truckers who were transporting long wooden piles from the interior to the coast.

It appears that one of Town Clerk Royston King’s difficulties as Head of the Georgetown Municipality’s administration is his lack of understanding of how much the image of his administration depends on the goodwill of the citizenry, a circumstance that is decidedly surprising given the fact that  he had served as the City’s Public Relations Officer immediately prior to being elevated to Town Clerk and would therefore have come to his current job with some understanding of the virtues of image-management.

Dear Editor, I welcome the recent revolution in the sport arena of Guyana and hope it catches on.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC administration has to be very, very careful what it does and what messages it wants transmitted to society.

Dear Editor, Meritocracy in Guyana and at Gecom depends on the season and who is asked; it can be one slippery serpent. 

Dear Editor, For heaven`s sake, let us acknowledge that the eighty-over rule is based on nothing but tradition, and that by changing it to a sixty-over rule, more excitement will be added to 5-day cricket (the longest form of the game) without losing anything, and equally important, reducing the temptation  to infringe the rules against ball tampering.

Dear Editor,  It was disappointing to see some constituencies have not had their projects approved for whatever reason, in the city constituency projects, which is to be rolled out soon.

One of the innovations of constitutional reform, the sectoral committees of Parliament can undoubtedly help to richen the engagement between the people and the legislature.

Dear Editor, With allegations against the employment practice of GECOM raised, the issue of race has surfaced again.

Dear Editor, Justice (Ret’d) James Patterson has made my point, emphatically, about the perverse ethnic and political domination, and lack of diversity and racial exclusion in the make-up and hiring practices of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), in his considered – but irrational –  decision to reject the top ranked candidate, Vishnu Persaud, for the post of Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) of GECOM.

Dear Editor, In a previous letter I indicated that in 2013, on the eve of GECOM`s consideration of Mr.