Opinion

Dear Editor, September 12, 2016 marked the second death anniversary of Elvin McDavid, the Founding Patron of the Burnham Foundation.

The practice by government officials to make grandiose pronouncements on issues around the time of national or international observances of said issues has been so overdone that it has become expected.

Dear Editor, The Bureau of Statistics acknowledges and appreciates the interest shown by members of the public in the analysis completed to date for the 2012 Population and Housing Census published in Compendiums 1 and 2 via our website.

Dear Editor, I write in response to an outrageous article published in the Guyana Chronicle on September 19, in which the Regional Health Officer declares, “No shortage of essential drugs in Region 5”.

Dear Editor, Editor, it was only a few weeks ago I wrote describing the verbal abuse and harassment meted out to me by police ranks because I refused to cooperate with them in going against procedure.

Dear Editor, I rarely ever agree with Frederick Kissoon but on this particular topic, I fully agree with his analysis. 

Dear Editor, I refer to the report in the Tuesday, September 13 edition of Stabroek News on the casino robbery accused alleging victimization at Timehri Prison.

Dear Editor, I have been keeping abreast of the situation relating to the dragger blocking a channel in the Mazaruni and take this opportunity to acknowledge the apology from the Junior Minister of Public Infrastructure on this matter.

Dear Editor, I must say that personally I have very few grouses in relation to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS); I have had my benefits paid and when my pension became due it was paid pronto with refunds of all overpayments.

Dear Editor, This month marks forty years since my training in human relations and techniques that have application to the scheme of life.

Dear Editor, In Lethem we voted for President David Granger because we felt that he was a righteous man; we liked what he told us at the meetings he had in the region.

The Christian Democratic Party the leading party in the German coalition government, and from our perspective a central actor in the European Union and therefore in wider Europe, has now suffered a third election defeat in regional elections, this time in the capital city Berlin where a right-wing minority party, Alternative for Germany, has made a substantial showing at the polls (14.1% of the votes) on an anti-immigration platform.

Dear Editor, It is a raging police-hunting season, and the GPF cannot remove itself from the unforgiving high glare of the spotlight. 

Dear Editor, Your editorial headlined ‘Vendors’ in the Sunday Stabroek of September 18, has succinctly described the general situation of street vending in the city of Georgetown.

Dear Editor, This is not an attempt to hold scales between the present and the past Attorneys General over the promise of the present one to give life to the Committee of Privileges. 

Dear Editor, Everything happens online these days. A quick search of the internet will deliver thousands of results from universities offering their programmes through an online platform.

Dear Editor, The Golden Grove/Diamond-Herstelling/Little Diamond NDCs should resign immediately and make way for an interim management committee which can manage the affairs of these important villages.