Opinion

Dear Editor, Some of our farmers and vendors have joined the world of artificial ripening of fruits and vegetables with the use of chemical agents.

Dear Editor, In an SN article of August 4, it was reported that the architectural firm Rodrigues Architects Limited carried out an audit on the recently completed Kato Secondary School which was built at a cost of over $728 million, and that they uncovered over $144 million of defective work (nearly 20% of the construction contract).

Dear Editor, The move by the Ministry of Business and Tourism to create a strategic plan is quite heartening, and is an initiative that should be applauded and copied by other sectors/ministries of government.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) wishes to respond to the article published in the Guyana Chronicle dated August 4, 2016 titled, ‘LBI workers picket GuySuCo over transfer to Enmore.’

Dear Editor, As a mining advocate and President of the National Mine Workers’ Union of Guyana, I unwaveringly support the call for investigations and prosecution across the mining districts advocated by Maj-Gen (rtd) Joe Singh who headed the CoI into the pit cave-in that led to the death of eighteen-year-old Reynold Williams.

Dear Editor, Speaking on last week’s edition of the TV programme ‘Public Interest’, President David Granger, made some startling disclosures.

Dear Editor, The watching of accountability by Mr Anand Goolsarran is testimony to the dangers of having persons who are employed by government or have a private practice granted access to the national newspapers and allowed to publish columns on a regular basis.

Politikles

“Character is not formed by the mind,” wrote Baron Pierre de Coubertin, “it is formed above all by the body.

Dear Editor, In the 1980s and I was in my 40s – a patient of Doctor Niamatali.

Dear Editor, It was announced some time in June of this year that Guyana intended to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).

Dear Editor, I am not convinced that the Parliamentary Natural Resources Committee and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs will be able to work together for the betterment of Indigenous communities if they can’t find common ground to facilitate the revision of the Amerindian Act.

Dear Editor, The May 2015 general and regional elections have come and gone but several persons in the hinterland regions who provided transportation services to the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) on that day have not as yet been paid.

Dear Editor, What a day for West Indies cricket! The fourth day was all India’s as excellent bowling in the sessions available due to the cessation of torrents of rain, saw the rapid dismissal of the four top order WI batsmen.

Dear Editor, I must confess that I enjoy the debate proffered by a respected colleague – George N Cave ‒ as to whether or not there is a totally integrated institution identified as ‘the government’.

Dear Editor, The current disciplinary process and procedures in the public service should be revisited with a view to provide for a speedier due process and natural justice for public servants as outlined hereunder.

Dear Editor, The appearance of TV ads informing our MPs of upcoming sittings of our exalted parliament, the premier institution of our country, has been a source of irritation to me, a continuing assault on my national pride and unhappiness that my tax-dollar is being wasted.

Dear Editor, In the words of the great Rev William Barber in his speech at the Democratic Convention, “Pay people what they deserve, share your food with the hungry. 

If anyone was expecting the announcement of a comprehensive strategy to tackle the student debt problem, both in terms of existing non-performing debt already on the books, and the processing and managing of new debt through the Student Loan Programme, they were to be disappointed.

Dear Editor, This is an endlessly fascinating country.  It perplexes, even as it intrigues.