Opinion

Dear Editor, I refer to your news article, in the edition of Tuesday, February 21, captioned ‘Region 1 REO booted from PAC hearing over alleged attempt to mislead’, in which my client, Aruca Investments, has been named as a defaulting contractor.

Dear Editor, I would like to fully endorse the contents of Mr Charles Sohan’s letter of February 21, in the Stabroek News ‘Patterson should have reviewed his staff performance for failing to monitor contractors’.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to offer some clarifications to your article captioned ‘Lethem Town Council’s purchases from mayor’s wife under scrutiny over procurement’, published in your Tuesday edition, February 21.

Dear Editor, Plumbing new depths of depravity, the Mayor and her accomplices have decided to double down on their toxic parking meter regimen.

Dear Editor, Now that the State Assets Recovery Bill is about to be passed in the parliament there is a concerted effort by the opposition PPP, the Private Sector Commission and some individuals whose income and wealth are inextricably tied in one way or another, to activities associated with the previous regime.

Dear Editor, The Working Peoples Alliance Overseas Associates (WPAOA) states its equivocal support for the civil disobedience activity occurring in Georgetown against the draconian and burdensome imposition of paid parking meters in the city.

Dear Editor, When the coalition took office there was great expectation among supporters and even non supporters, who recognized a change had come.

Dear Editor, The news that Dave Cameron and Emanuel Nathan have been unopposed for President and Vice President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) raised eyebrows in several quarters because the two were severely criticized by some players, administrators, and fans for their failure to improve the summer game in the region.

Dear Editor, I am reluctant to admit certain things, but in the interests of openness I confess. 

Dear Editor, Developments on the political and social fronts are unfolding and moving at a measured pace.

Dear Editor, Thomas Cuming was the owner of Plantation La Bourgade lying between Church and Lamaha Streets.

On Sunday the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall was the scene of a ferocious competition. 

Dear Editor, Having a discussion with Mr Juan Edghill is like trying to stand on shifting sand.

Dear Editor, Article 26 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) asserts that everyone has the right to education.

Dear Editor, It was reported in the news media on February 17, that due to bad contract management, the East Bank and East Coast Demerara Highway improvement projects funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have cost the government $543M and still counting for unfinished contract work on these road projects.

Dear Editor, Judicial Review is that area of the law which allows for a citizen who is aggrieved by the act or omission of any public officer, including ministers of government, any public authority or any statutory tribunal to challenge the said act or omission on the ground that the act or omission is unlawful/illegal/contrary to some written law, including the Constitution/arbitrary/capricious/discriminatory/in breach of natural justice/ultra vires/in breach of one’s legitimate expectations.

Dear Editor, In the response of Finance Minister Winston Jordan to Stabroek News’s February 17 editorial, he asserts that to mitigate the impact of the ‘Brain Tax’ on working class parents struggling to invest in their children’s education, private schools should absorb it as was done by GTT.

Dear Editor, For some time now Assistant Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine has quietly and effectively been performing the duties of Commissioner of Police.

Dear Editor, Dr Clive Thomas has been writing for decades about the phantom/underground/parallel economy in Guyana, He has been enumerating some fantastic numbers such as those penned in Stabroek News of February 16, captioned ‘SARU defends assets recovery bill -says country was bleeding $313 B per annum.’