Opinion

Dear Editor, Oil was discovered in Guyana in 2015. It is expected to start flowing in 2020.

Dear Editor, I wish to seek clarity from the relevant authority responsible for the Better Hope/LBI Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) once more.

Dear Editor, In law enforcement, the only real power comes from the strength of the system. 

Every year, without fail, a matter of days before the new academic year begins, teams of builders can be seen frantically trying to remedy and repair school houses defective in one way or another, for the start of classes.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the West Indies cricket team for a magnificent win over England at Headingly.

Dear Editor, A chorus representing a broad spectrum of individuals grows larger and louder with each passing day, which believes that incarcerating citizens, especially those from poor communities, for possessing or using small amounts of marijuana is unjust, unproductive and unwise.

Dear Editor, We have allowed the culture of carelessness to settle in.

Dear Editor, It is always productive to have proper debate on issues affecting our economic development, especially the current state of the sugar industry.

Dear Editor, I seldom use these columns but am happy – and anxious – to pen a most, brief response to Mr Oncar Ramroop’s interesting clarification in your Sunday 3rd September 2017 edition (`Former Guyana National Co-operative Bank building is privately owned’).

Dear Editor, Lands purchased by Afro-Guyanese after emancipation were under attack by the then colonial state because they provided the freed slave with living space and potential independence.

Dear Editor, There are many sad stories daily in our country.

Dear Editor, I take time out to congratulate Dr George Norton on his ascension to the office of Minister responsible for Culture, Youth and Sport.

Dear Editor, Why should public officers be eligible for duty-free vehicles every three years and not every five years?

Dear Editor, I take this opportunity to salute our Amerindian brothers and sisters on the occasion of Amerindian Heritage Month.

Dear Editor, My friend and senior professional colleague, Mr EB John, has been doing yeoman service in pointing out deficiencies, flaws and anachronisms in various aspects of human resource management, including the improprieties in the categorization/classification of jobs within the public/ civil services of Guyana; his latest appeared copiously in various issues of the local media last week.

In October 2015, with Guatemala wracked by decades of poor governance, the aftermath of death squads and corruption, comedian and political neophyte Jimmy Morales won an astounding 70% of the vote in the final round of the presidential election.

Dear Editor, My company, Ramroop’s Investments Inc, is the owner of the property, via transport, located at Lots 1 & 2 Lombard & Cornhill Streets that formerly housed the Head Office of the now defunct Guyana National Cooperative Bank.

Three weeks ago David Jessop in his Sunday column wrote about the resuscitation of railways in some parts of the Caribbean.