Opinion

Dear Editor, The National Forest Action Plan proposed for 2018 reads well as an academic document.

Dear Editor, There have been at least two recent complaints about excessive vibrations to buildings caused by pile-driving on adjacent lots.

Dear Editor, In what appears to be a carefully thought-out plan, Councillors were surprised by the way the draft M&CC Budget for the fiscal year 2018 was passed by the Councillors who remained at the Extra-ordinary Statutory Meeting of the council on Wednesday 7th March 2018, to discuss and decide on this 133 page document.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Chronicle’s decision to stop the independent columns of Professor and patriot Dr David Hinds and trade union expert and patriot Lincoln Lewis is a stinging slap in the face of Guyana’s democracy.

Dear Editor, Since May, 2017, when the Minister of Finance reported that only 20% of the country’s Public Sector Improvement Programme (PSIP) had been completed, I started to do an analysis, though not as in-depth as I would have liked to, of what might be some of the fundamental problems for this lower than expected delivery.

Even in a global community where the international relations agenda is teeming with other issues of pressing importance – the Syrian crisis and its related superpower confrontation; the resurfacing geo-political tensions in the Middle East; political instability linked to regime change in Africa; the protracted crisis confronting the Maduro administration in Venezuela; and Russia’s fast-eroding relationship with the West –  no current global development comes close to matching the recent dramatic turn of events than relations between the United States and North Korea.

Dear Editor, Despite the establishment of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) in 2016, Guyana’s procurement process is still infested with prejudice, inequality, unfairness, discrimination, nepotism and racism and, even worse, there is no proper mechanism to deal with appeals and complaints.

Dear Editor, I attribute much of the incompetence and poor customer relations that some companies perpetuate, to ignorance, hefty or inadequate salaries and mismanagement or unsuitable staff, resulting in an inability to provide the services or goods offered.

Dear Editor, During his last cabinet press briefing Minister Harmon mentioned that the three tiers of government must work together in order for it to be successful in serving the people.

Dear Editor, The people of inner Bagotville have over the past three weeks experienced what one may call the insensitivity of the administration of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.

Dear Editor, I am always looking for a positive story to write about Guyana; stories about ordinary citizens doing extraordinary things.

Dear Editor, ExxonMobil’s Kimberly Brasington, Senior Director, Public & Government Affairs, recently made several comments to the media and at public/private gatherings in Guyana that give the impression to Guyanese of being condescending and pompous.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a missive captioned ‘GuySuCo can be saved’ (SN, Mar 9) where former President Donald Ramotar argues that the sugar industry can be saved and closed estates reopened.

Dear Editor, Interpretative convenience is not a recognized method of constitutional interpretation.

Dear Editor, Please allow me some space to highlight a major injustice by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).

Dear Editor, Three states in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will hold general elections to elect new governments within weeks.

In the Guyana Football Federation Inc (GFF) column in Saturday’s Guyana Chronicle in recognition of International Women’s Day,  GFF President, Wayne Forde set out what his organisation is doing for gender parity.

Dear Editor, Grow plantain and make plantain chips? While growing plantain and making plantain chips will replace imported plantain chips saving a little foreign currency, it will not replace the foreign currency lost through the “downsizing” of Guyana’s sugar industry.