Opinion

Dear Editor, The absence of authority creates the inability for one to exercise the power of his office; this is where I find myself as a councillor after eight months at the Georgetown Mayor and City Council.

Dear Editor, First in regard to truth and the budget: There is a saying that the first casualty of war is truth, but we need the longer version to understand the motives for some of the exchanges on the budget.

Dear Editor, On December 11th this year, it will be seven years since we lost our dear friend and sister Dr Desrey Caesar-Fox in a terrible and unnecessary road accident. 

Dear Editor, The frequency of suicide in Guyana, and mainly among the fairly young, is as frightening as it is painful.

Dear Editor, I usually refrain from responding to the letters of Tacuma Ogunseye since I was advised that he is on the payroll of a government that brought forth this anti-working class 2017 Budget.

Dear Editor, Whenever I read newspaper articles or letters to the editor accusing the late great Fidel Castro of being a dictator and of carrying out political executions, Shakespeare’s immortal words come to my mind: “Oh Judgment!

Dear Editor, I usually refrain from responding to the letters of Tacuma Ogunseye since I was advised that he is on the payroll of a government that brought forth this anti-working class 2017 Budget.

South Sudan is heading towards a catastrophe. Its worsening civil unrest, which has been rapidly deteriorating since a coup attempt last December, has effectively ended the 2015 peace deal that stopped a two-year civil war between rival government factions.

As the budget presentations and debates gather steam, the eyes of the public are once more focused inexorably on the antics and elucidations of those who seek to represent us in that most august of houses ‒ the National Assembly.

Dear Editor, About two months ago, Dr Alain Kaloyeros, the president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, the university neighbouring mine in upstate New York, resigned amid charges of corruption.

Dear Editor, I received a phone call from Toshao Doreen Jacobus of St Denys mission, Tapakuma, last Sunday to say that the long drought which started three weeks ago has taken its toll on 35 acres of the women’s group farm which were cultivated months ago.

Dear Editor, A working definition of propaganda is the spreading of information or rumour for the purpose of helping or injuring a cause.

Dear Editor, At least we are seeing one thing at work in the letters from Mr Craig. 

Dear Editor, Budget 2017 will result in retarded economic growth and the social decline of our nation.

Dear Editor, I read with interest a letter by Jeumayne Dummett entitled ‘Government’s PR needs a complete revamp’ (SN, December 8) in which he proposes that the APNU+AFC government should up its game to get its message across by better PR.

Dear Editor, As the 2017 budget street level debate rages, the private sector has weighed in repeatedly with a succession of dirges and angled self-serving critiques. 

Dear Editor, England is scheduled to play three one day matches against the West Indies beginning in Antigua on March 3, 2017.

Dear Editor, Could 98.1 (‘Hot’) FM  end the horror to the listeners and return VOA Music Mix to the airwaves in the early morning hours?