Opinion

Dear Editor, On Monday, October 17, 2016 I informed the relevant regulatory and enforcement agencies of the serious degradation being done to the banks of the Potaro and Essequibo Rivers between Tumatumari and Omai as a result of irresponsible gold dredging activities.

Dear Editor, The Forbes Burnham Foundation joins most of the nation and the progressives of the world in paying tribute to El Presidente Fidel Castro, Commandante.

Dear Editor, I recently went to a Republic Bank ATM to make a deposit, and after punching in my transaction request I did not receive an envelope in which to place my cash deposit.

Dear Editor, I have noticed what I believe, were misleading comments and insinuations made by Mr Gobin Harbhajan, in his letter which appeared in the November 18, 2016 Stabroek News (‘It was the PPP which ruined the sugar industry…’). 

Dear Editor, On Wednesday, November 23, 2016, I received a message from GTT at 1.16pm saying “Due to a mobile network system upgrade, customers will be unable to buy data from 6 pm today to 8 pm.

Dear Editor, I viewed the debate in the National Assembly concerning the D’Urban Park and was shocked when I heard the Minister of Public Infrastructure reveal to the nation that the then PPP/C government spent $179M on the D’Urban land.

Dear Editor, Late last week I was privileged to share a session at the Pegasus with the Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) group. 

Dear Editor, It is a sad situation that our young people are faced with under the present APNU+AFC coalition government.

Dear Editor, Barbados will on Wednesday November 30 join Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana in celebrating its golden jubilee as an independent nation, and the 166 square mile country started activities since January to mark the occasion.

Setting aside the recent and apparently ongoing row between the Police Commissioner and his high-ranking subordinate there are quite a few other matters of pressing public concern that have to do with the functioning of the Guyana Police Force.

Dear Editor, I came across a misguided letter in the Stabroek News of November 24, carrying the headline ‘The erroneous definition of broadcasting has not been removed from the Telecommunications Bill’ by Tony Vieira.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education celebrated forty years of nursery education ‒ from September 1976 to September 2016.

Dear Editor, On November 18, a letter from the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr Basil Williams, appeared under the caption ‘President is paying careful attention to his constitutional duty in the appointment of judges.’

Dear Editor, The electorate in Grenada has rejected a referendum to amend the constitution to abolish appeals to the Privy Council and accept the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final court, among six other constitutional amendments.

Dear Editor, Reports in the media about the various sufferings of Guyana’s pensioners continue to jolt one’s conscience; the latest involves the cruel hassles imposed on them by an apparently mindless bureaucracy which insists that they endure a nightmare of days annually just to collect their pension books.

For decades, the Directors of the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) have done yeoman’s working in protecting the health of citizens from unwholesome foods and improper food handling practices.

Dear Editor, Of late, we have been getting conflicting reports from this administration on the status of crime in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I hereby extend deepest sympathy to the people, the Communist Party and the Government of Cuba on the passing of Fidel Castro, the leader of the most significant revolution in our hemisphere.

Dear Editor, I refer to Sunday Stabroek’s report of November 20, featuring the GHRA statement on the Hamilton Green pension bill, which touched on Mr Green’s connection with political repression and the mass exodus of Guyanese, amongst other things.