Opinion

Dear Editor, Sandra Adams was a champion in her own right.

Dear Editor, In an article which appeared in the news media on Dec 29, it was reported that the Minister of Public Infra-structure (MPI), David Patterson, told reporters at his end-of-year press conference that a multi-disciplinary team has been meeting with ExxonMobil to review identifiable onshore sites for the storage and distribution of natural gas expected to be produced as a by-product from oil fields being developed off Guyana’s Atlantic Coast.

Dear Editor, I beg to differ with Christopher Ram in his negative depiction of the Stability of Agreement clause in the Petroleum Agreement as “[s]trangling future governments” (Part 29 of his ‘The road to first oil’ series).

Dear Editor, Reading about road fatalities and seeing someone actually lying dead in the street are two different experiences.

Dear Editor, One of the failures of the coalition government has been the continuation of the Jagdeo/PPP policy of the police condoning rum abuse and noise nuisance.

Dear Editor, The much heralded local government elections were touted to be the changing point for residents in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, and the dawn of a new beginning.

Dear Editor, During the festive season I hosted family from the Rupununi, including three kids.

Dear Editor, In the present political climate in Guyana it is very difficult, if not impossible, to claim objectivity when assessing the performance of either the government or the opposition.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article in last Sunday’s edition of the Kaieteur News under the caption ‘More than a week later…Rape accused yet to be charged despite DPP’s recommendation’.

Dear Editor, Shortly after President Brig David A Granger became President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, to the surprise of many he announced that his vision was to establish a Public Service College to produce professional and unbribable public servants.

Dear Editor, In the first instance up to today no one, repeat, no one, has said anything to me.

Dear Editor, Strict racial voting dominates Guyana’s modern era politics; each of two substantially large racial groups voting for its ethnic leader at the head of two ethnic parties.

Dear Editor, This month marks the 68 years since the formation of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

Last Saturday, 30th December, one of Canada’s largest and most prestigious newspapers, the Montreal French-language publication La Presse, rolled out its final print weekend edition (Canadian weekend newspapers have traditionally been sold on Saturdays), in the 133 year history of the newspaper.

Dear Editor, We in the GPSU have every reason to look forward to the New Year.

Dear Editor, It was reported in the Stabroek News that the Marriott Hotel had placed twenty  signs on a strip of sandy beach on the foreshore north of its property and designated it, “Private Property and that access without permission is prohibited.”

Dear Editor, In ‘The PPP no longer represents the interests of its supporters’ (SN, Dec 28), Craig Sylvester unjustifiably slandered my name without offering any evidence to buttress his claims.

Dear Editor, It is 2018 and the future is now.  The foils and coils that have surrounded oil will fade into well-remembered toils of the past.