Opinion

Dear Editor, The adverse public reaction to news that the Minister of Finance is presenting a Bill to give a pension, benefits and other facilities to Hamilton Green that is set to cost the state some $16 million annually was expected. 

Dear Editor, The Public Relations Officer of the city council has written to the press about consultations done to determine the priorities for the Georgetown municipality and about pervasive criticisms levelled “every time the Georgetown Municipality seeks to employ a new revenue earning venture”.

Dear Editor, Now that the AFC has announced the party’s national conference will be in January 2017, it leaves many to ponder as to its accuracy. 

Dear Editor, In Guyana corruption is a good word to start a conversation with or even better to initiate an argument.

Dear Editor, There are more delays in Guyana’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) REDD+ Readiness project since there seems to be little or no movement in the implementation of this project by the IDB in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources.

One can appreciate the sense of frustration felt by the Georgetown City Council’s Public Relations Officer Debra Lewis over what, by her own admission in her letter to SN of November 19, is the customary “widespread criticism” inflicted upon the municipality every time it “seeks to employ a new revenue earning venture.” 

Dear Editor, Today I step forward to advocate that some processes and situations be changed from what is known and practised. 

Dear Editor, John Q Tilson, a lecturer in Parliamentary Law at Yale Law School, a former Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives and a former Majority Leader of the US House of Representatives in his text, A manual of Parliamentary Procedure, (1948), describing the personage of one who presides over a Parliament, wrote thus: “The presiding officer of a parliamentary assembly is an institution growing out of human efforts directed toward self-government and is typical of a democratic republic.

Dear Editor, On December 14th 2015 you published a letter that expressed the opinion of many of the Rastafari in Georgetown on the renaming of streets in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, We’re a nation where we always talk about being patriotic and call for the show of love to one’s country this ‘Dear Land of Guyana’, but miss every real opportunity that presents itself to express this.

Dear Editor, Like their predecessors, some members of the governing APNU+AFC have sought the reins of power for the perks.

Dear Editor, Everyone is familiar with the great divide, heated and stormy, of the peoples in this land. 

Dear Editor, I have travelled this entire nation and I note with interest that from Essequibo to Berbice we have more sellers than buyers.

On November 15, 2016, Parliament Office distributed the Order Paper for today’s session of Parliament which contained the hitherto unknown bill for a pension for former Prime Minister Hamilton Green and a range of other benefits.

Dear Editor, The results are in, and the so-called “unthinkable” has happened.

Dear Editor Bill No 17 of 2015 is intended to remove the sentence of 3 to 5 years in prison for a joint of cannabis or a small quantity for personal use; it has nothing to do with legalizing cannabis.

Dear Editor, I am from the Indigenous village of Chenapau, the only Indigenous village on the Upper Potaro River and close to the Kaieteur Falls.

Georgetown is one little democratic experiment that seems to have gone off the rails already.