Opinion

Dear Editor, As the rational mind tries to understand the tactics of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) in the context of the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo), it is to say the least worrying that the corporation has found itself in a business arrangement with a partner that has a totally different agenda.

Dear Editor, The conceptualization of the parking meter project is not known to the people.

Dear Editor, We the public have been told a lot about why there has been non-interference in the affairs of the Georgetown municipality, especially when it comes to the parking meter issues.

Dear Editor, Those who would have been attended by, and at the same time, have attended to the vagaries of the physical (and indeed mental) health of our ‘patient’ society, must at times be concerned as to whether the relevant decision-makers have been informed with sufficiently precise analyses to arrive at conclusions regarding the fault lines perceived in the public sector, and therefore to formulate equally precise solutions.

Dear Editor, The prejudiced, deeply polarized politics of Guyana has its genesis in our country’s political history, starting from the time the PPP was split in 1955 and resulting in the creation of the PNC.

Dear Editor, I would like to express thanks to Minister Catherine Hughes; Avinash Singh of GTT ‒ the technician who came by ‒ and the other person he was working along with.

Dear Editor, Let me say that Tacuma Ogunseye has stood the test of time, and has left footprints in the sands of time, as one would say.

As the potential firestorm continues to brew over the city of Georgetown on the parking meters, the debate rages on, tempers flare, meetings are held, discussions take place, and eventually the dust will settle and the matter will be resolved one way or another.

Dear Editor, Recently I visited the newly created Unity Park in Essequibo and I was impressed.

Dear Editor, The previous version of Schedule I to the Value-Added Tax Act zero-rated “a supply of education services and educational materials” and provided definitions for both terms.

Dear Editor, Since the Granger administration came to office, its economic policies have led to the systematic weakening of the system of respect for private property.

Dear Editor, On the eve of the second anniversary of the uniting of APNU and the AFC to remove the PPP from office, it is appropriate to speak of the AFC.

Dear Editor I read with keen interest a letter in SN dated February 11, under the caption, ‘Following management reforms the police force now is different from the one which Conway served.’

Dear Editor, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Region Ten Regional Chairman Renis Morian’s reactions to my view that this government has done nothing to honour and implement the 21st August, 2012 Agreement prove my point that they are playing a form of Machiavellian politics with the well-being of the people of Linden/Region 10.

Dear Editor, I had planned to visit one of the oldest sugar estate heritage sites here on the Essequibo Coast, with Mr Tota  Mangar and Dr James Rose ‒ both are historians ‒ some 15 years ago when both men and I were at the  Devonshire Castle Martyrs’ Day wreath-laying  ceremony where 5 sugar workers were brutally gunned down in 1879.

Dear Editor It was noticeable that the AFC arm of the coalition government, whose representative sits on the city council in the form of the Deputy Mayor, who has been vocal on the parking meters and the manner in which this project was rolled out, was not at the meeting between government and city officials recently.

Dear Editor, There is an emerging view in some quarters and social media, disputable as it may be, that were elections to be held tomorrow in Guyana the APNU+AFC coalition would crumble and fall.

Dear Editor,   On Thursday, February 9, I joined a massive protest at City Hall to oppose the Parking Meter Project which has recently been implemented in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, The parking meter project lacks an iota of transparency. 

It is probably not surprising that quite a few commentators on the unfolding parking meter saga have alluded to the role which public protest has played in the evolution of the issue.