Opinion

Dear Editor, The Government truly deserves to be commended for its decision to remove university fees from January 2025, in keeping with the PPP/C manifesto promise and also as is mandated by Guyana’s Constitution.

Dear Editor, With your permission, permit me to explain how total revenue, total cost, and profits are identified in the Guyana oil business, and in particular Liza One.

Dear Editor, This is only the second time in my life that I am spending a night in jail.

Dear Editor The incessant clamor for Shared Governance and/or Power Sharing by opposition forces seeking input and control over governmental functions is a disservice to Guyanese.

Dear Editor,  Recently His Excellency announced interventions that would attempt to address some of the miseries of contributors that have been plaguing the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), but would these satisfy the other complaints experienced by contributors? In

Dear Editor, Every student knows that he/she would only be eligible for an NIS pension at age 60, unless of course there are exceptional related circumstances.

Dear Editor, Can Guyanese ever agree on something again?  What hopes exist that there ever again will be some degree of consensus on anything at the political level? 

No Guyanese who is even vaguely abreast of the currents that are the basis of critical discourse in our country would have missed (if they had read it) the poignancy of the Stabroek News’ editorial ‘Indefensible’ published in its Thursday October 17 issue, the central theme of which – in the opinion of this writer –  is the seeming astonishing indifference of the powers that be to what is now widely felt to be the deeply alarming distancing by the Guyana Police Force from the tenets of its Service and Protection motto.

Dear Editor, The reconciled matrix of Guy $100,000 from the $200,000 axiom now for all over 18 instead of per family is still, sadly, shrouded in mystery.

Dear Editor, The name of Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus has been echoing around Guyana for the last few months and his legal saga recently gained new life both before the courts and on social media.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the headline: Guyana has avoided the ‘middle-income trap’ – World Bank report, SN, October 19, 2024.

Dear Editor, In recent weeks, the government of Guyana has announced multi-billion-dollar contracts aimed at upgrading the road and drainage infrastructure in Regions Four and Six.

Dear Editor, In the English alphabet, after letter L as in Leonora, is M as in money, followed by N as in noise.

Dear Editor, Was the PPP/C unaware of ‘sanctity of contract’ when it promised in its manifesto to engage the oil and gas companies in re-negotiation?

Anytime a senior member of the police force is facing allegations of the type that have beset Assistant Commissioner of Police, Calvin Brutus, the country has a major problem on its hands as it relates to law enforcement.

Dear Editor,  The October 11th Stabroek News Editorial quite rightly states that Culture should not be combined with Youth and Sports. President

Dear Editor, Reference a letter from Mr. Vishnu Bisram published in the newspaper 17th October 2024 captioned “Announce that the 1980 constitution was born out of fraud thus making it illegal” apparently it was in reference to an editorial by SN “Ramkarran and CRC” (Sep 22)  which was also in reference to an earlier letter from Ralph Ramkarran.

Dear Editor, Before he sat down to write; ‘No one will deny Janet Jagan’s role but she should not be exculpated from responsibility for the problems we inherited,’ published in S/N 6.10.24.