Opinion

In a blunt statement in response to a column in the Guyana Chronicle by presidential advisor on the environment, Rear Admiral (ret’d) Gary Best, the Director of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative, Per Pharo has set out in stark terms what decisions have to be made by the government here to access monies accrued under the 2009 forest protection partnership.

Dear Editor, Word has come to me from different sources that this country has a serious problem that has remained out of sight and out of mind. 

Dear Editor, Clearly unmoved by fifteen thousand signatories and the heartfelt arguments, pleas and entreaties of hundreds of parents and students at the Government-Parents-Adminis-trators VAT on Education consultation, Cabinet’s subsequent announcement of no review of VAT on education until 2018 has effectively killed any further meaningful discussion on this issue.

Dear Editor, I have noted many advertisements put out by the M&CC regarding public consultations with respect to the garbage situation. 

Dear Editor, I have noted that Alister Charlie, a constituency MP for Region 9 has taken me to task, in the letter columns, for responding to him at the recently held constitutional reform symposium.

A former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education under the PPP/C administration, Mr Hydar Ally, had a letter published in this newspaper on Good Friday.

Dear Editor, Recently I was privileged to be on a study tour to Colombia and Mexico as part of the Government of Guyana’s Sustainable Urban Tran-sport Study (SUTS) for Georgetown, through the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI).

Dear Editor, The recent setting up of a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) “to examine and make recommendations to resolve all issues and    uncertainties surrounding the claims of Amerindian land titling, the individual, joint or communal ownership of lands acquired by freed Africans and on any matters relating to land titling in Guyana” is the latest move by Government that is creating disunity amongst the peoples of this country.

Dear Editor, I respond to an aspect of Orrin Gordon’s letter ‘A very useful plant was given away with nothing coming to the community’ (SN, April 13).

Dear Editor, The debate over VAT on private education is one of the great ironies of our time.

Dear Editor, Recent coverage in the media regarding the preaching and proselytizing of a particular religion in the public schools in Guyana which is a secular state has, among other things, raised one’s awareness about the impropriety of the state and/or its corporations tolerating such activities.

Dear Editor, I would like to extend Easter greetings to all Guyanese.

Dear Editor, I write this letter in support of Swami Aksharananda and in defence of the Guyanese ethos. 

Dear Editor, Over thirteen thousand children will compete for less than a thousand allocated places at the senior secondary schools in the country.

Dear Editor, A total of seventeen locally-based players was selected in a provisional squad of thirty, to pursue training ahead of a friendly international against Martinique on March 28 at the MSC ground, Linden.

For the first time since its establishment in 1957, Guyana’s Bureau of Statistics has moved into its own dedicated building – the former Customs House on Main Street.

Dear Editor, From the number of adversarial encounters being reported as occurring in communities (old and new) across the country, it would appear as if those who supervise are clearly uncertain of their authority (or competence) to intervene and advise the raft of novices floating on top of creaky government entities.