Opinion

Dear Editor, As a pensioner, I’m writing to draw attention to a change which the management of GuySuCo has made in the payment method for its pensioners which is causing us very serious inconvenience and worse than inconvenience.

Dear Editor, As we get older, particularly if, it seems, we were members of The Penumbrians or of the Y’s Men’s Club, we sometimes over-reach. 

Dear Editor, The list of persons dying in road accidents due to the parking of vehicles on both sides of the Corentyne Highway continues to escalate while persons in authority display the tendency to be deaf, dumb and blind to this avoidable carnage of our citizens.

Dear Editor, Charity will always be flooded when the rain falls because vendors and businessmen have been allowed by the Charity/Urasara NDC to occupy the drainage trenches to sell their goods.

Dear Editor, The proud claims and the confidence that goes with them, are there in the public domain. 

Dear Editor, While overseas, I read with interest the efforts made by Minister Raphael Trotman and Major General (Ret’d) Joseph Singh at mediation in the Marudi Mountain mining issue.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to share my thoughts on the actions of the Government of Guyana to convert the ExxonMobil signing bonus into US and Canadian Treasury Bonds.

Dear Editor, Not all those who shout “dialectics, dialectics,” shall enter into the kingdom of philosophy.

Dear Editor, Every year on the 19th of April the Indigenous people of Brazil celebrate Dia do Índio (in  English it means Indian Day).

At a recent hearing of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), members learnt, or rather were officially informed, that Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) has a significant staff deficit and that the 204 vacancies included teachers, nurses and doctors.

Dear Editor, The establishment of the National Toshaos Council under the PPP/C Government ushered in a new era where no longer was accessibility and dialogue with Amerindian leaders a limiting factor in the government’s determined efforts to engage our Amerindian people and their elected leaders on development issues.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources is unequivocal in our position that the safety, health and general wellbeing of our workers is our top priority.

Dear Editor, A Teaching Service Commission vacancy notice appeared in the April 8 edition of the  Sunday Stabroek.

Dear Editor, I could recall that a letter writer, Mr Imtiaz Bacchus, questioned the health issues of a GWI well located in the cemetery at Fyrish Village which provides drinking water for thousands of residents in the surrounding areas.

Dear Editor, The Guyana government has been receiving severe criticism from Guyanese and non-Guyanese alike for the terms and conditions of the agreement executed with Exxon.

Dear Editor, Someone called me at 6.43 on Tuesday last and pointed me to a column titled, ‘I find the GHK Lalls of this world reprehensible’ (KN, April 17). 

Dear Editor, Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan during his press conference on Friday, April 13, announced that the economy expanded by only 2.1 per cent, the lowest growth rate in recent times.

Dear Editor, I am totally disturbed by news reports that ranks of the Guyana Police Force in New Amsterdam refused to take seriously a rape report by a 58-year-old Berbice woman and humiliated the victim at the police station.