Opinion

Dear Editor, The Sunday Stabroek and the Kaieteur News of yesterday put Messrs.

Dear Editor, It is now 3.23 am in the morning, Saturday, January 21st, and I cannot sleep.

Dear Editor, Every resident of Alaska receives an annual cash dividend called the Permanent Fund Dividend, from the Sovereign Wealth Fund of the state oil revenues. 

Dear Editor, I refer to the news item titled, `No corruption in scholarship awards to ministers –Granger’ (SN January 22). 

Dear Editor, Comments like those offered by the Minister of Finance in his 2017 Budget with respect to the progress on the reforms in the judicial system have to be rejected on all fronts.

Dear Editor, About a month ago, I was party to an interesting discussion with some gentlemen regarding the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

Dear Editor, Guyana which gained political independence more than 50 years ago and produced more outstanding legal scholars than any country in the region, was operating on outdated, obsolete, and antiquated Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) for more than six decades, while countries in the region are functioning on modern and effective rules and procedures.

Dear Editor, One notes the debate in the press about the process for selection of a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission.

Dear Editor, I commend Samuel J Goolsarran for his letter ‘Political dialogue between the leaders of the PPP and PNC should be promoted as high priority’ (SN, January 21) in which the gentleman lays the groundwork for consensus politics.

Political coalitions which succeed in unseating incumbents develop for any number of reasons and their acceding to office is particularly dependent on the mood of the populace at that point and the circumstances in the country as a whole.

Dear Editor, A fire on Robb Street this past week has really brought home a number of many important and dangerous issues which need to be addressed immediately by the authorities.

Law and medicine were the two professions to which traditionally young Guyanese aspired, and things haven’t changed much, although nowadays more students appear to be attracted to law than to medicine for a variety of reasons.

Dear Editor, I observed a letter to the editor appearing in the Kaieteur News edition of Saturday, January 21,  under the caption, ‘The double standard of Anil Nandlall’ purportedly written by Carl Witherspoon.

Dear Editor, I read of a taxi driver, known to me for a long time, shot during a recent robbery while he was transporting a customer. 

Dear Editor, Exactly one month has elapsed since the Leader of the Opposition submitted a list of six names to the President for the appointment of a Chairman of Gecom.

Dear Editor, Pedal cyclists and even motor cyclists ride on our roads at night without lights, whether headlights, tail lights or reflectors.

Dear Editor, The construction of new roads and the maintenance of existing ones seem to be a colossal problem throughout the length and breadth of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Your Friday, January 20, 2017, lead story, ‘I am going to choose somebody who is fit to be a judge,’ attributed to President David Granger on the appointment of the next Gecom Chairman, should come across as a stance taken by a strong and decisive leader.