Opinion

Dear Editor, On Saturday night I was still relishing the West Indies T20 win against India, when it dawned on me that in some ways, history had repeated itself. 

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The cringe-worthy apology of the Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton on Friday over the bond scandal demonstrates the APNU+AFC government’s complete unwillingness to hold its senior officials accountable and to take condign action.

Dear Editor, It has always bothered me how governments tend to become most stingy when it comes to paying workers a living wage. 

Dear Editor, Thanks to Livestream many of us in the diaspora get the opportunity to watch parliamentary proceedings live.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC government’s final offer on wages and salaries increases for public servants for 2016 is disappointing and leaves much to be desired.

Dear Editor, In a recent conversation with a young relative, she lamented to me that she, a qualified teacher, was looking to return to the profession but was having much difficulty.

Dear Editor, I refer to your headline in the Friday August 26 edition of the Stabroek News: ‘Parking meters company recruiting staff -though city still to act on damning findings about contract.’

Dear Editor, Former West Indies and Guyana star batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul who has been sidelined by the selectors is now training to be a cricket coach.

The government has found itself in a few scandals since coming into office, but none has been more corrosive to its image than the drug bond contract.

Dear Editor, In my estimation, cartoonist Paul Harris, in stepping into the large shoes of his father before him, Hawley Harris, has ably carried on the lofty standards of acute perception of events and remarkable extrapolation that were set for him –that is, until I saw his rendition last Monday, poking fun at something as highly regarded over the years as the National Art Gallery.

Dear Editor, The Acting Commissioner of Police is responding to a letter in the Stabroek News edition of Thursday, August 25, 2016, under the caption ‘Why do police close the road for Waterworld events denying access to Perseverance residents?’

Dear Editor, I hope against hope that the Vice-Chancellor gets his request for much increased funding agreed by government.

Dear Editor, The nation continues to reel from the shock generated by the $12.5 million per month rental of a storage bond at Sussex Street, Charlestown, Georgetown by the Ministry of Public Health for a fixed term of 3 years.

Dear Editor, I refer to the editorial titled ‘Vigilantism’ (SN, August 26). 

Dear Editor, I saw a photo of the PPP picketing the High Court in Stabroek News of August 24, demanding the expedition of the elections petition, because they claimed the poll was fraudulent and they won the elections.

The long-awaited treaty that may finally end Colombia’s 50-year civil conflict is a study in perseverance.

Dear Editor, This concept of power sharing has been around for many years now ‒ at least 30 years.

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