Opinion

Dear Editor, I would appreciate if the CEO of GTT could tell me what in the world I pay $20,000 each month for internet services for.

Dear Editor, In keeping with the president’s call for social cohesion, I want to share with you an unfortunate and unforgettable experience l had while leaving Guyana, which brought about social cohesion among passengers.

For what is unquestionably a landmark industrial relations engagement, the current wages and salaries talks between the government and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) are, at least up until now, proceeding in a decidedly low-key manner.

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me some space to defend my company against the sustained and unwarranted attack it has undergone in the recent past in both the electronic and print media relative to our work at Kato on the secondary school.

Dear Editor, We of the Mahatma Gandhi Organization and the Gandhi Youth Organization (Woolford Avenue) would like to sincerely thank Messrs Vishnu  Bisram, Annan Boodram  and Dr Niamatali for their timely and important contributions in the print media on the  epidemic of alcoholism wreaking havoc in our society.

Dear Editor, I was very instructed by the letter appearing in your publication of August 4, 2016 `Termination and dismissal from employment’ by Samuel J.

Dear Editor, Do West Indian cricketers lack pride in playing for nation or region?

Dear Editor, There have been some rather ‘personal’, rude and crude comments on my letter in the 4th August edition of Stabroek News `Why advertise parliamentary sittings on TV when email, etc, is available’ which are not deserving of my reaction; however, I wish to make a few points that obviously escaped the commentators and which might be of further interest to the general readership and public at large:The TV advertisements were directed to MP’s principally and especially those living in outlying areas; they did not contain any invitation, directly nor implicitly, to the general public.

Politikles

So much has been found to be wrong with the secret contract signed between the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) and Smart City Solutions (SCS) for parking meters over a 49-year period that it is amazing that it hasn’t been cancelled as yet.

Dear Editor, I have checked and rechecked the Minister of Finance’s release and quotes verbatim from the newspapers, “The Finance Minister has announced interest reduction packages for those who make arrangements to repay their loans by August and September, 2016.

Dear Editor, With reference to the letter `Goolsarran, others hired by government or in private practice should not have columns in newspapers’ in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News, I wish to make the following points.

Dear Editor, It was a funeral which was almost entirely English.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC administration has to be mindful it does not continue sending the signal that the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing or decisions are being made without due diligence.

Dear Editor, I should like to agree with fellow pensioner Nowrang Persaud (SN Aug 5, 2016, “Why advertise parliamentary sittings on TV when email etc.

Dear Editor, The public relations dimension of several changes this government would have had to manage has, frankly, been well handled.

The flurry of claims and counterclaims about responsibility for the costly failures at projects such as the high-value Kato Secondary School and the Good Hope Bridge is enough to send the tax-paying public into apoplexy.

 Dear Editor, It seems fair to say that a significant number of Guyanese are of the view that crime is rampant in the Republic and as a result they live in fear of becoming victims.