Opinion

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by former local government Minister Mr Norman Whittaker, captioned, ‘A guide for citizens, local gov’t officers on the budget process for municipalities, NDCs,’ (SN, Oct 21).

Dear Editor, It is injurious to public understanding and to truth-seeking that the terms ‘a militarised state’ and ‘the militarisation of the state’ have been so recklessly thrown into our political discourse. 

Dear Editor, GuySuCo: what to do about it?  What is the best way, the least painless way, to proceed? 

Dear Editor, I grew up in Linden. Many people in Linden have lost a relative or a friend through an accident on the Linden Highway.

Dear Editor, The letter captioned ‘Ministry obligated to adhere to World Bank’s guidelines for selection of consultants’ written by Charles Sohan and published in the Stabroek News of October 31, provides an opportunity for Ground Structures Engineering Consultants (GSEC) to provide clarity on the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) evaluation process.

Dear Editor, I regret to inform you that at last Friday’s AFC press conference (October 28) I inadvertently stated that “ SOCU”  had visited the offices of the Ministry of Public Telecommunications in relation to  investigations into the results of the audit of the NFMU. 

Dear Editor, A letter was published in Stabroek News dated October 28, 2016 under the caption ‘Cabinet meetings must not be held at Camp Ayanganna’.

Dear Editor, The letter of Malika Ramsey, who is also one of Minister of State Joe Harmon’s media/press personnel, shed some insight on the government communication strategy that contributes to negative perceptions and angst among the people, and allows the opposition PPP/C to walk all over the leadership (‘Press release on meeting with ministers came from PNCR headquarters’ SN, October 31, 2016).

Dear Editor, The very fact that so many die needlessly on the roads, and hundreds are seriously injured every year is tantamount to a national scandal.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan is of the view that the media often provide a quality of reporting that comes up short of what is necessary to enhance public enlightenment on many issues that fall under his portfolio.

Dear Editor, The PNCR/APNU/ APNU+AFC’s hue and cry for local government reform over the past two decades can best be described as a call of convenience ultimately aimed at empowering themselves, and certainly not local communities as they would have the Guyanese people believe.

Dear Editor, For the past week Essequibians have been experiencing 12-hour blackouts daily ‒ 6 hours in the morning and 6 hours at night.

Dear Editor, Last week, timber giant Barama Company Ltd, announced that it will be closing its forestry operations, which will result in five hundred persons being dismissed.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Speaker, Dr Barton U A Scotland, staff and artistes who took part in the ‘Afternoon of Reflection and Celebration of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary’ – they deserve our praise.

Dear Editor, Carvil Duncan has filed legal proceedings in the High Court challenging the actions by the executive to remove him from office as Chairman and a member of the Public Service Commission, a member of the Judicial Service Commission and a member of the Police Service Commission.

Dear Editor, President David Granger in his recent address to the National Assembly, redirected the nation‘s attention to the mismanagement of the country by the PPP/C administration, pointing to the financial, economic and social problems his government inherited, as major reasons why the coalition government has been unable to deliver more benefits to the citizens of Guyana.

Dear Editor, We elected President Granger because he promised us that he’d make our communities safer.

Dear Editor, The next time the Guyana Chronicle tries to discredit a Government Press Secretary or a Government Communications Officer, it might be wise for them to be accurate by at least attempting to print the entire story.

Dear Editor, I read and listened with great care to the pronouncements by David Ramnarine DSM, Commissioner of Police acting on the vexed question of granting of bail.