Dear Editor,
As the judiciary continues to haemorrhage because of judicial vacancies, and the consequent sloth which afflicts the machinery of justice continues to magnify, Attorney General Basil Williams continues his campaign in the press to defend and justify the President abdicating his responsibility to appoint persons as and to promote judges recommended by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), as mandated by the constitution.
Dear Editor,
The pronouncement by the Finance Minister in his budget speech that the Income Tax Act will be revised to authorize the GRA to “garnish” funds from bank accounts held by taxpayers who have outstanding tax arrears has caused great anxiety and concern both to the business community as well as the ordinary citizen.
Dear Editor,
I turned up at the New Amsterdam Hospital Dental Clinic, taking time off from my work to have a filling done, only to be told that there was no dental chair and I would “have to check back next month.”
Dear Editor,
I read Laurie Greenidge’s Nov 25th letter in the Stabroek News captioned ‘Neighbour burns garbage under my bedroom window’ with outrage after learning of such bellicose residents in his community.
Dear Editor,
Since 2015 certain interventions at the national level have brought to the local environment a climate which one wit claimed (or declaimed) as ‘veteranism’.
Dear Editor,
I am constrained to respond to Tony Vieira for the last time on this issue (out of necessity) so that the public is not unwittingly misled (‘Craig’s letter contained numerous areas of misinformation’ SN, Nov 30).
Dear Editor,
Allen Stanford, the man who spent tens of millions of dollars to promote the shorter version of cricket in the Caribbean, has lost his final bid to be released from prison after he was convicted and jailed for a ponzi scheme in which he fleeced hundreds of millions of dollars from investors.
In October 2016, the Commonwealth Secretariat released its second Global Youth Development Index, mere days after the Guyana Government passed its National Youth Policy in Parliament, a policy which was said to, inter alia, “[encourage] leadership, participation and representation.”
Dear Editor,
I wish to draw attention to the structure of our society and the massive social injustices and abuses meted out to the masses, here referring to the working class and so-called hustlers who, either are disqualified from regular jobs for lack of appropriate educational attainment, or else are unable to accept the ridiculous low-paid wages and salaries in the formal economy, ie, government and private businesses.
Dear Editor,
I refer to the letter from Attorney General Basil Williams in your edition of November 30 (‘The President cannot be compelled by the JSC’) in response to my recent article (‘On the warpath against the Constitution’, SN, Novermber 20).
Dear Editor,
The Working Peoples Alliance Overseas Associates (WPAOA) fully endorse Dr David Hinds’ call for a public statement from Dr Rupert Roopnaraine on his affiliation and involvement with the controversial Homestretch Development Inc.
