Opinion

The Freemasons Hall in Company Path, Georgetown, the largest and oldest of the buildings owned by Freemasons in general in the city and possibly the country, is in a disreputable state.

Dear Editor, I am in New York on business and so what I write here is from memory and not from my notes which are on my desktop computer in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Given that the feasibility study for the new Demerara River Bridge is not readily available to the Guyanese public or the engineering community, even before we attempt to solve the complex financial questions of tolls and subsidies and financing arrangements for the construction of the bridge, it would be useful if the Ministry of Public Infrastructure could address the following technical questions, so that we perhaps can all be assured that a “3-lane bridge (3LB) with a movable section” is indeed the best technical solution.

Dear Editor, I was amazed that the day after I wrote in the media about human resource management professionals needing to adapt their approaches to staff training/learning/development in keeping with readily available ‘tech-savvy’ methodologies, SN carried a sad report in its issue of September 15 titled: ‘UG Sociology students forced to stand during 3 hour lecture due to limited seating’.

Dear Editor, I would like to extend my condolences to President David Granger and family on the passing of his brother Frank.

Dear Editor, Hardly a week passes without this government finding itself in the throes of a scandal.

Dear Editor, A Ministry of Education report of November 6, 2008 revealed that, up to 2007, 13,844 students had dropped out of the primary school system, representing 4% of the national population.

Dear Editor, Over the past few days I have watched in disappointment, as our society has become enthralled in this racial slur debacle, which stemmed from leaked private conversations which a young woman was having with her friends.

Ethnic violence in Myanmar has now displaced more than 400,000 members of the Rohingya minority and the ongoing military crackdown on the group has been described by UN High Commissioner Zeid Raʼad al-Hussein as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”

Dear Editor, The Guyanese people, I am sure are ripe with some excitement and welcome the news of a new Demerara Harbour Bridge.

Dear Editor, A recent public statement on behalf of the Government of Guyana by Minister Trotman, the minister responsible for the natural resources sector in relation to the issuance of new oil and gas exploration and production licences was that “whether we go openly and publicly with international bids, or whether we have quiet and private discussions, will be determined by the national interest,” should have all Guyanese deeply worried about being able to receive its due share of oil and gas wealth.

Dear Editor, In the end we conclude that the political party is essentially another cultural product.

Dear Editor, I read a letter by Audreyanna Thomas in your respected newspaper, captioned ‘Police should stop disgracing the uniform they wear’.

Dear Editor, It has happened again: officials making impositions on communities without consultations (‘NDC raises objection over relocation of Lombard Street squatters to Mocha’ KN, Sept 13).

Dear Editor, With the help of our print media I have been highlighting the need for our Human Resource Management (HRM) practitioners to eschew tendencies to ‘cut and paste’ imitative approaches to learning and development in the workplace.

Dear Editor, The role of the opposition is to question the government and hold them accountable to the people.

Dear Editor, I have a landline phone with the internet.  Since June 2017 our phone has stopped working.

Dear Editor, Please let me add my two cents to the growing criticism of GTT’s telephone and internet service.