Opinion

Dear Editor, The parking meter project in the capital city of Georgetown has charges which are too steep and incurs penalties which are too high, especially for working-class Guyanese.

Dear Editor, From 2000-2005, I attended the Leonora Primary School on the West Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, We are two of thousands of small miners in the mining industry and as such are qualified to comment on matters concerning the industry.

Dear Editor, I fully support former Speaker Ralph Ramkarran’s suggestion that “There should be a campaign of civil resistance if the meter zone is extended” (SN, Feb 5). 

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Voice notes that a recent editorial on mental health in a local newspaper was significant for what it omitted as much as what was included.

Dear Editor, Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi speaking in the Lok Sabha during the just concluded 2017 Union budget debate was quoted as saying: “corruption begins with cash, and later with gold then property.”

Dear Editor, On September 6 last year I wrote a piece in the Stabroek News about the importance of the appointment of judges to the Appellate Circuit Courts in the United States and I was criticized by a few who asked what was the relevance to Guyanese.

Dear Editor, It has always baffled me why in the twenty-first century influential cricket people, especially in the West Indies, the region that is the chief victim of old-fashioned thinking about the game, could not recognize how invidious distinctions between the long and shorter versions have been inhibiting progress internationally in this sport they claim to love.

Dear Editor, At the last AFC National Conference on January 28 in Region 3, we saw changes in the entire leadership of the party. 

Dear Editor, More and more the reports are surfacing, and more and more those same verbal reports are corroborated by an accumulating mound of damning records. 

Dear Editor, I am pretty sure that the MAPM is both flabbergasted and amused by Mayor Chase-Green’s contrite invitation to a ‘consultative’ meeting today at 10am.

On February 8th, the Office of the Prime Minister announced the arrival of a team of constitutional experts from the United Nations System for what was described as a constitutional reform needs assessment mission.

Dear Editor, The 21st August 2012 agreement between central government and the Regional Democratic Council, Region 10 was marked with the citizens’ blood and lives and the destruction of properties.

Dear Editor, The letter published in your issue of February 4, captioned ‘Why have the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union directors not held an AGM?’

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to provide the following statement in response to a letter in the Stabroek News titled ‘No water in Chateau Margot’, dated February 10.

Dear Editor, The parking meters ignominy is the latest episode in a running narrative of President David Granger’s dull and disappointing leadership of the coalition government, and it does not bode well for Guyana and most Guyanese that this performance is playing right into the come-back plan of the PPP led by the politically restive Bharrat Jagdeo.

The protest against parking meters has changed the political landscape in odd ways.