Opinion

Dear Editor, Former President Bharrat Jagdeo is widely reported in the press as telling sugar workers in Berbice in the past week that any government he leads will make generous payments to those who were retrenched if the PPP wins general elections in 2020.

Dear Editor, Guyanese have for the most part been left at the mercy of private sector businesses, some of whom can at best be described as economic pirates. 

Dear Editor, The Mayor and City Council wishes to encourage all citizens to pay attention to all items, particularly foods and beverages they are purchasing during this festive season.

Last Saturday night a large crowd gathered at the Demerara Park, which is actually a parking lot during the day for the Banks DIH head office, located across the street.

Dear Editor, To find a great modern-day leader with a life full of integrity is nearly impossible, but President Granger definitely fits the bill.

Dear Editor, Workers/citizens have to hold the politicians accountable for lying to them, taking them for granted, and treating their business with contempt. 

Dear Editor, Mr Justice Patterson’s statements and those of the Attorney General, Mr Basil Williams, in today’s Stabroek News evoke even greater controversy.

Dear Editor, I refer to Bishop Juan Edghill’s letter to the editor published on Dec 14th in the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, I must profusely thank well-known attorney-at-law Mr Mursalene Bacchus for his kind and compassionate gesture to offer his services pro bono in an ongoing uphill battle to free a cow calf improperly and illegally impounded at the No 51 Police Station.

Dear Editor, It has been reported that Leader of the Opposition PPP/C Bharrat Jagdeo has promised retrenched sugar workers a monthly stipend if re-elected in the 2020 General Election (‘If re-elected PPP/C Gov’t will give retrenched sugar workers monthly sum until they find jobs’, Sunday Stabroek, December 17).

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your editorial ‘Unparliamentary events’ (Dec 17).

Dear Editor, I find it prejudicial and judgemental to attach a label to those persons who speak up when they feel that a particular ethnic or social group is being treated unfairly.

Dear Editor, The citizens of Guyana have endured long a bitter undemocratic rule (1968-1992) under the People’s National Congress.

Dear Editor, Since May 21, 2015 when President David Granger with Comrades Joe Harmon and Raphael Trotman took a helicopter ride to the ExxonMobil oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean (Stabroek Block) to be embraced, Rastafari in Guyana have been monitoring the APNU+AFC government, winner of the election on May 16, 2015, on all aspects (or non-aspects) of oil and gas production and administration in Guyana by ExxonMobil.

Dear Editor, The Mayor and City Council has designated special areas for vendors during this festive season.

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine has issued a somewhat convoluted media release making reference to, among other things, the peculiarity of two plainclothes policemen, in turn, surreptitiously occupying positions at the media desk in the Parliament during a sitting of the National Assembly.

Dear Editor, I am indeed pleased to read the news report published in the December 16 edition of your newspaper headlined ‘Police were wrong to enter Parliament Chamber,’ attributed to acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine.

Dear Editor, I thought I would take some broad strokes at a review of the things that enlightened or disturbed during 2017.