Opinion

Dear Editor, GTT, after about six or seven years since they laid the fiber-optic cables, has finally arrived in La Grange, West Bank Demerara to deliver their promised service of land-line telephones, after the atrocious implementation of the now defunct Fixed Wireless Access telephone system.

Dear Editor, In our three years of suicide prevention activism in Guyana there has and continues to be one recurring denominator: the lack of communication.

Dear Editor, Over the past few months there has been a discernible and justifiable effort by many enquiring into the status of constitutional reform in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Tulsi Gabbard representing the Second Congressional District of Hawaii (HI-02) paid a visit to Richmond Hill last Saturday evening to meet with Guyanese Americans and others to address current national issues including healthcare, foreign relations, and immigration worrying them.

Dear Editor, On June 21, NBC’s the ‘Morning Show’, the announcer was very happy to tell her audience that Tropical Storm Bret was no more, however the USA’s attention would now turn to Tropical Storm Cindy.

Embedded in the house rental for Minister Simona Broomes are two important questions for the government: the basis on which decisions are made on emoluments for its senior officials and having made these decisions, whether it is prepared to be fully transparent about them.

Dear Editor, Rawle Lucas’s commendable effort to unravel the mysteries of the balance of payments (BOP) is useful coming in the wake of recent concerns about pressure on the exchange rate (see SN June 25).

Dear Editor, The Working Peoples Alliance Overseas Associates (WPAOA) in its January 24, press release drew attention to the rejection of the list of candidates for Chairman of Gecom submitted by the Leader of the Opposit-ion based on an interpretation of Article 161 (2) of the Constitution of Guyana that few agree was correct.

The Grade Six Assessment results were announced on Friday, and as in previous years the high-flyers recorded a truly impressive performance.

Dear Editor, I am a recent re-migrant from Canada to Guyana and as such I would like to take advantage of the reduced duties charged on an imported vehicle.

Dear Editor, The first major signal of colossal chicanery on the part of the APNU+AFC administration emerged in a press report in August 2015, that Cabinet had approved increases in salaries for ministers and other office holders by 50%.

Dear Editor, When one listens to Mr Seepaul Narine of GAWU, he or she could only wonder why he and his union have not come to grips with the fact that they must be the most outdated institution of their kind, certainly in the Caribbean, and beyond of course.

Today Canada marks 150 years of Confederation with lavish firework displays, celebrations and concerts.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) wishes to respond to a letter from the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) titled ‘GAWU sees GuySuCo solely as a public sector agency’ (SN, June 30) authored by the corporation’s Senior Communications Officer, Ms Audreyanna Thomas.

Dear Editor, On the 7th June, 2017, Mr Sase Singh, in a letter in Stabroek News, wrote complaining of the seeming bias in the selection of permanent secretaries only one of whom is an apparent East Indian.

Dear Editor, In letters which appeared in the news media on June 21 and 23 respectively, Tony Vieira, a former director of GuySuCo concluded that the corporation was on the skids and rapidly heading into the sunset as its incompetent management have poorly and hastily introduced mechanical harvesters to increase sugar production and productivity with what is left of its reduced cultivation and a dwindling, demoralized workforce.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in yesterday’s edition of the Guyana Chronicle under the caption ‘Rape gang tormenting Bartica teens …probe launched, group urges action’.