Opinion

Dear Editor, Who said Guyanese literature was dead? It was alive and well at the London High Commission on Monday, November 21, when two of our star poets, Grace Nichols and John Agard, came to share their work about Guyana and their life in the UK with the diaspora.

Dear Editor, It will be intriguing how the Trump era unfolds. 

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Social Protection workers and Mr Ricardo Banwarie in particular must be commended for the expeditious action taken to rectify a mistake which prevented several old age pensioners in Region 2 from receiving their money earlier for this month but who can do so now.

Reacting to information that a section of the Queen’s College agricultural lands located within the school compound was to be utilized to facilitate the construction of a multi-complex canteen, students staged a protest on Tuesday through Thursday last to oppose the decision.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, November 22, I visited the National Stadium as I usually do when Nationals are held there, to give independent photographic coverage to promote Guyana to the world.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to an article published in the Stabroek News on Tuesday November 21, 2016, headlined ‘PPP concerned over non-placement of Cuba-trained doctors.’

Dear Editor, When I was asked to become a member of the board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA), I was mandated to undo any irregularity which I found in Broadcast Act 17 of 2011, which was put there by Bharrat Jagdeo, especially when it had to do with the illegal issuance of radio and other licences.

Dear Editor, The decision to pay Hamilton Green a pension for services between 1985 and 1992 equivalent to what the current Prime Minister would earn on retirement, is discriminatory when compared to the pittance of 50% on the minimum public service scale paid to those pensioners who gave over 33 years of faithful service within the public service, inclusive of the same period.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to point out that the Bill laid in the National Assembly on November 21 is to pay a pension to Hamilton Green specifically, not to former prime ministers generally.

Dear Editor, I want to suggest that the National Communications Network (NCN) announcers take over the reading of the daily weather report. 

Dear Editor, It speaks volumes of Guyana’s sport department when a sport administrator has to attempt a hundred mile walk in order to raise funds for his association to send a team abroad.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter of the Guyana Medical Council (GMC) published in SN (Nov 22) in response to my last Friday column in which I asserted a previous position that many of the Cuban trained Guyanese doctors are not competent.

Dear Editor, I refer to an article published in the Guyana Times of Sunday, November 13, captioned, ‘Govt’s crime-fighting failures defy logic, commonsense  -Jagdeo …says Army should have been deployed earlier.’

Dear Editor, The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG) wishes to express sincere thanks to Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud and Superintendent Singh for the recovery of a passport seized unjustifiably since 2013 by a passport officer when the person in whose name the passport was issued went to renew it for the fourth time.

Dear Editor, On the issue of the pension and benefits for Mr Hamilton Green, I wish to point out that Mr Green was the Prime Minister of Guyana, and he served that office for a number of years to the best of his ability.

Dear Editor, A man has extended his fence in front of my house and land at Lima Dam, Essequibo, where I go in and out of my yard.

Dear Editor, When events and developments on the political front are looked at, it seems that almost every day the President surrenders willingly a sliver of precious goodwill.