Opinion

Late last week, City Hall, through Town Clerk Royston King, announced that this year’s Independence flag-raising ceremony was billed for the Stabroek Market Square and that preparing the venue for this august event would cost some $100 million and take two weeks.

Dear Editor, May 5 has arrived to offer us the opportunity to commemorate one of the most significant events in the constitution of our nation.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s oil discovery has attracted droves of foreigners, from near and far, even as the country grapples with concepts of local content – presumably for the current generation – and Sovereign Wealth Fund for succeeding generations of Guyanese.

Dear Editor, The Melanie Office of the National Insurance Scheme is total stress.

Dear Editor, Today the European Union joins with Guyana and the rest of the world in celebrating World Press Freedom Day.

Dear Editor, The undersigned was most joyful when I saw my President, our President, His Excellency, Brigadier David Arthur Granger meet the Queen of England.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has noted the contents of the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) column titled `PPP and GAWU’s scare tactics must be challenged’ which appeared in the April 30, 2017 Kaieteur News.

Dear Editor, There is a TV ad by the popular Slim Jet company which was aired yesterday morning on NTN Ch 18 Cable 69.The

Older folks will probably remember that title from the blockbuster comedy from the 1960s.

Dear Editor, Regardless of  political affiliation, it is important for us to have a civil, honest and inclusive conversation about the future of Guysuco and Guyana’s economy.

Dear Editor, Two years into its administration, the government of today has succeeded in disappointing many, including its own. 

Dear Editor, Hail up to President David Granger and our entire APNU+AFC Political Administration…specifically Hon.

Dear Editor, The issue of Barbers and Cosmetologists operating on the streets of the City has once again surfaced. 

Dear Editor, Guyana will have no choice but to restrict the import of some goods to protect the foreign reserves as the local $ slides to historic lows against the US dollar. 

Even allowing for the fact that the Com-mission of Inquiry (COI) into the state of education in Guyana required a good deal of investigatory leg work (and a good deal of contemplation and analysis, as well) that would have taken the Commissioners into the various remote corners of the country, it took too long (a year or thereabouts) before we finally arrived at the juncture of a preliminary report on the findings of the undertaking.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News recently reported on the government awarding contracts to upgrade the Maza-runi Penal Settlement (28th April 2017).