Opinion

Dear Editor, We have before us a revenue stream diversification question as it pertains to economic stability and risk mitigation.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter written in your newspaper on September 8, 2017 by Robin Singh captioned ‘Umpire’s behaviour was completely misguided’.

Dear Editor, We have read with great interest the article in last Sunday’s Kaieteur News concerning the efforts of Canadian based Guyanese in partnership with international groups to bid for contracts in Guyana.

Dear Editor, September 11 marked seventeen years since that fateful day when over two thousand persons perished following the destruction of the World Trade Center at the hands of terrorists.

Dear Editor, The Guyanese economy has now lost its ability to grow at 5%. 

Dear Editor, Of late the nation has heard a lot of noise about “serious deficiencies” in the Guyana Police Force.

Dear Editor, If there is anything that Guyanese have learnt over our brief post-independence period, it is that economic policies very often have a prolonged impact, and policy reversals can be extremely painful and socially destructive. 

“In time to come,” to borrow the title from Crazy’s masterpiece calypso, West Indian cricket fans will look back at the events that took place last week – 3rd-9th September, 2017 ‒ at the MCC at Lord’s and their feelings will run the gamut from hope to utter disgust.

Dear Editor, I think that enough has been said by women in direct response to Minister Keith Scott’s proposal that women security guards who are single mothers be facilitated to stop working at night if they so choose.

Dear Editor, The reason advanced by the government for its non-disclosure of the contract with the petroleum giant, ExxonMobil, is that there is a legal prohibition against such disclosure.

Dear Editor, Your reporting in yesterday’s page 15 of SN (‘New party not solution to country’s problems –Ramkarran’) quoted a passage from my Sunday column (‘A bleak prognosis?’)

Dear Editor, This letter follows a public angry outburst by a contractor and the revelation that contractors with more than 25 million in capital projects, have not been directed to their project sites to commence work as at September 2, 2017, more than one month after the contracts have been signed.

Dear Editor, Since discontinuing the garbage collection services of its two main disposal agents in Georgetown, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has obtained the services of a number of small contractors.

Dear Editor, I write to draw the attention of your readers to an active nuisance that has been created by the KFC fast food franchise outlet at Vlissengcn Road and Eping Avenue, Bel Air Park.

Dear Editor, Three years ago, at a public forum at the new Hope Secondary School, I expressed the view that GuySuCo would not survive another four years.

Dear Editor,  Owing to non-management workers employed with Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc (BMGGI) losing confidence in the representation provided by the National Association of Agricultural Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), which is the present bargaining agent for the said workers, they requested to be represented by the People United and General Workers Union (PU&GWU).

Dear Editor, There seems to be a misconception by the magistracy and prosecutors to the effect that once a magistrate finds a defendant guilty and sentences him, the magistrate is functus officio and cannot grant bail pending an appeal that was filed by the convicted person.

Dear Editor, I read in the Stabroek News dated Thursday, September 7, 2017 an article bearing the caption, ‘Koker breaks away at Met-en-Meerzorg’.

Dear Editor, On my second vacation trip to Trinidad, a Trinidadian asked me what I thought of Trinidad.