Opinion

Dear Editor, The following is a statement made by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, quoted in a Stabroek News article of November 19, 2016.

Dear Editor, I write this letter to you in my personal capacity as a citizen of Georgetown, a councillor, and in response to an article carried in yesterday’s Stabroek News (February 3) entitled ‘City council moves for judge’s ruling on Bel Air playground to be set aside.’

Dear Editor, The media has reported from the recent UG Turkeyen and Tain Talks ‘Education and Freedom: Education Reform and Socio-Economic Development in Guyana’.

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News is wrong in its contention that the government is obligated to pay for oil spills caused by ExxonMobil’s operations (‘Contract reveals… Guyana foot bill for litigation brought against ExxonMobil’ KN, Jan 30)).

On Tuesday of last week United Nations Secretary General António Guterres selected the International Court of Justice as the means to a solution to the controversy which had arisen as a consequence of Venezuela’s contention that the 1899 Arbitral Award was null and void.

Dear Editor, I have noted the statements by the Prime Minister Nagamootoo in the Guyana Chronicle with some amusement, where he expresses solidarity and mounts, in his view, a defence of older comrades and leaders of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) – comrades he claims are the ones who former President Bharrat Jagdeo wants to push out of the party.

Dear Editor, The government has announced a Commission of Inquiry into the Lindo Creek massacre, with more to come. 

Dear Editor, It would seem that the modus operandi of living in Guyana is utterly inept public service providers.

Dear Editor, When the PM addressed the retrenched sugar workers in Region Six, he told them that each worker would be given one acre of land to cultivate cash crops, coconuts, citrus, etc, after receiving half of their severance pay for their service.

Dear Editor, Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) has completed 100 per cent of its 2017 projects, with the full support of the local organs, according to Regional Executive Officer (REO) Denis Jaikaran.

A recent book by US senator Ben Sasse laments the decline of adult role models in American life.

Dear Editor, It is my sincere hope that the team of lawyers who will be representing the country’s border case against Venezuela at the ICJ in the near future does not let key dates slip by as was demonstrated in the Dipcon fiasco that cost the Nation millions of dollars, which would have been handy today for the sugar worker severance.

Dear Editor, The Indian Action Committee (IAC) has noted government’s announcement of a series of inquiries into past incidents that have been described as crime spree killings.

Dear Editor, There is a lot in a name and we need to get names right.

Dear Editor, The main objective of the Rupununi Mining Association is to conduct our operations in an environmentally friendly way.

Dear Editor, I do strongly believe that the severed sugar workers must be given subsidized water and electricity due to the tremendous hardships they and their families have been facing.

Dear Editor, I am overjoyed that Mr Maurice Arjoon has been finally vindicated in court.