Opinion

Dear Editor, Having been exposed again that they had no intention of paying the more than 4000 sugar workers who were terminated their legally guaranteed severance this month as promised, President Granger had the self-proclaimed ‘champion’ of the sugar workers read a message in Parliament that APNU+AFC will provide a 50% severance payment by the end of the month.

Dear Editor, Upon acquiring a piece of land some ten years ago in Section A of the Grove/Diamond New Scheme, I assumed that by paying an additional sum for that frontal ‘residential’ area, I would be entitled to a basic convenience such as a passable road.

Dear Editor, It was widely reported that the PPP sent 17 of its members of parliament to the first People of Indian Origin (PIO) Parliamentarian Conference in New Delhi, India.

Dear Editor, While being in possession of a valid lease to do farming in a specific portion of land in the Essequibo Island area, there was never a problem until it reached the stage of reaping plantains cultivated by me at the location.

On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 Justice Navindra Singh handed down a sentence of 16 years imprisonment to Sylvester Bristol, called ‘Rambo,’ for the killing of female taxi driver Savitri Gangadeen Parma, after Bristol pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter even though originally charged with the capital offence of murder.

Dear Editor, I recently learnt of the transfer of one of Essequibo Islands/West Demerara’s best medical practitioners, both at the administrative level and in terms of attending to patients, to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Dear Editor, I have noticed that the government mentioned that it is still to make a final decision on the closure of more estates.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) wishes to make it very clear that the non-payment of the 2017 tax refund to workers employed at the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) has absolutely nothing to do with their submission of tax returns.

Dear Editor Reports in the print and electronic media stated that on December 30, 2017 Lance Corporal 17310 Williams, Constables 23777 Blake, 23630 Prince and 20980 Hunte while on roadblock duty at Whim Public Road, Corentyne detained Deputy Superintendent Motie Dookie and a minibus driver for what they perceived to be the police officer and driver knowingly concerned in dealing with thirty cases of Johnny Walker whisky with intent to defraud the revenue of the duties thereof.

Dear Editor, My very educated and learned friend Zamal usually shares some great, well-constructed pieces with me.

Dear Editor, I welcome the call by Mr Rickford Burke for ‘The youth population … [to] form a new political movement’ (SN, Jan 10) to break the stranglehold of our politics by the two dominant parties.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) is very concerned and perplexed by what it deems as a strange decision of the Guyana Police Force not to allow the union to use a noisy instrument during its march from the High Bridge of Rose Hall Canje along the public road to the Canje junction along the No 2 public road and back to the High Bridge on January 9.

Dear Editor, On Monday 8th, 2018, My wife went to collect my pension book at the Social Protection office at Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast.

Around October last year, marine and underwater photographer Caroline Power, who is  based in Honduras, published a series of photographs and videos on her Facebook page, of large swathes of garbage, mostly plastics, floating on the Caribbean Sea near Roatán, one of Honduras’s Caribbean Bay Islands.

Dear Editor, The Linden Town Council voted overwhelmingly for Ms Arrindell and Mr Bethune to serve as mayor and deputy mayor, respectively, for the final year of council’s term.  

Dear Editor, Guyana now has to leap forward to modern development and transition from a primitive politics to political maturity.

Dear Editor, I take my hat off to Isabelle de Caires, a true daughter of David, on her piece in SN, Jan 9, entitled: ‘Are we all asleep at the wheel?’