Opinion

Dear Editor, I thank your newspaper for sending Kenesha Fraser to Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast, to produce a January 5, 2014 story on the village.

Last week, the Government Analyst Food & Drugs Department (GA/FDD) dispatched a letter to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to prohibit a named US-based company from facilitating transactions pertaining to the importation of consignments of foods into Guyana on the grounds that the said company had been involved in arrangements allowing for imports that do not meet the requirements of the country’s Food and Drugs Act.

Dear Editor,   The Guyanese American diaspora (from the greater New York area) held a seminar and cultural variety programme on Sunday afternoon in a tribute to the late former Presidents Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan in Richmond Hill, Queens to celebrate his 99th birth anniversary and to memorialize and commemorate the 20th anniversary since his death and 9th anniversary since her death.

Dear Editor, The traditionally reserved Bank of Guyana (the Bank) has found itself increasingly drawn into public statements and appearances over the uncertainty surrounding the foreign exchange market and the deterioration of the exchange rate of the Guyana Dollar.

Dear Editor, Commemorative activities in the country seem, inevitably, to acquire some of the stain and colours of our racial antipathies.

Dear Editor, Without a doubt, the greatest obstacle to an APNU+AFC re-election bid in 2020, is the man who now holds the strategic positions of Leader of the Opposition and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo.

Dear Editor, The country’s wounds will heal I believe, only when Guyana acknowledges the truth of what happened from October 9, 1953 (the date when the Constitution was suspended), to the present.

Dear Editor, The 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 which resulted in the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC) is of special significance to Guyana and other former Caribbean colonies of Britain, France and The Netherlands.

Dear Editor, With reference to the ongoing media debate on the sugar industry, in rural outreach discussions (seminars) with international scholars in Trinidad and Guyana, which are part of the commemoration of the centenary of the abolition of indenture, sugar workers in both societies bitterly complain of their mistreatment by state owned sugar companies and the government.

Dear Editor, The Commonwealth Secretariat has this year emphasized peace as a major focus in its observance of World Commonwealth Day.

Dear Editor, Marine Le Pen, National Front candidate in the upcoming French presidential elections, discussed with President Putin in Moscow the prospects of cooperation with Russia in counter-terrorism, culture, energy and trade, and breaking Cold War stereotypes.

Following the furore over the $605m emergency purchase for the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), the Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence has provided further clarification on her role in the process.

Affairs at City Hall are becoming increasingly bizarre. Who would have thought that following the local government elections last year, when the citizenry was looking forward to a new era of transparency, accountability and rationality in the management of their capital, it would become a byword for exactly the opposite?

Dear Editor, The current discussion on the sugar industry vis-à-vis the bauxite industry being conducted by the PPP/C is deserving of context.

Dear Editor, We are constantly reminded by the central bank through the media that there is no shortage of foreign currency in the country and that the spread between the buying and selling rates should be no more than $3, yet the public is bombarded daily by contrary scenarios when they approach the cambios and banks.

Dear Editor, By now, Article 161(2) of the Constitution of Guyana must be one of the most familiar provisions of that document where the populace is concerned.

Dear Editor, The actions of the Town Clerk, whereby he contrived to have the council defy specific instructions from the Minister of Communities, who has ministerial responsibility for M&CC, in relation to the suspension of the parking meters by-laws is insubordination and is grounds for disciplinary action.