Opinion

Dear Editor Based on a conversation I had had with Dr Clive Thomas after the 1992 elections, I asked Mr Tacuma Ogunseye to check his facts directly with Dr Thomas (‘Mr Ogunseye should get the facts from Dr Thomas,’ SN, June 23).

Dear Editor, I note with worry and also much anger the replies of GTU President Mark Lyte and Mr George Cave in the print media recently regarding my letters in the press which highlighted the actions against dozens of teachers in the High Court, especially as they relate to my own preliminary promotion to Head of the English Department.

Dear Editor, Decisions have been overturned by those who made them on much more significant issues than which teams are excluded from a particular international sporting event or series of events.

Dear Editor, With reference to the headline, ‘Cases being built against drug kingpins -US embassy official’ (SN, June 26),  this is the second instance in approximately two weeks that the US government, through a very high level representative, has showed its hand. 

Dear Editor, In his riposte titled ‘Cheddi Jagan withdrew the offer of a ministerial post to Clive Thomas’ (SN, Jun 22), Tacuma Ogunseye falsely attacked me. 

The newly installed City Hall has gotten off to a bad start.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Quick thinking and sound planning by the Minister of Infrastructure, Mr David Patterson and General Manager, Miss Merchant of the Transport and Harbours Department on Thursday, June, 23 certainly averted what would have been a crisis situation at the Supenaam and Parika stellings. 

Dear Editor, I am happy to read that our government has secured UNDP funding for a foreign consultancy on improving ICT access by hinterland citizens.

Dear Editor, No one yet seems to have noticed the apparent state of schizophrenia shared between the contesting parties – namely the government, on the one hand, and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) on the other, regarding the announced negotiation of the quantum of increase on salaries of public servants.

Dear Editor, The parking meter saga disgrace, really-is about some of the things that this country should no longer represent and exhibit. 

Dear Editor, Georgetown is the capital city of Guyana but it’s in a very bad state because of the number of vagrants, touts, beggars, thieves and white collar crooks.

Anyone who listened to or read of the press conference held last Monday by the Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase-Green on the visit of her team to Mexico in connection with the parking meters project would instantly come away with the view that the city is a hotbed for  machinations more associated with some medieval enclave rather than a municipality born of democratic elections and aspiring to transparent, open and accountable governance.

Dear Editor, Nations and political unions can only succeed if the people are on board.

Politikles

Dear Editor,   In SN of June 22 and KN of June 24, I note two versions of a letter by Mr Leon Suseran, “Graduate Senior Assistant Master, Vrymans Erven High School”. 

Dear Editor, The heart-wrenching story of the horrible tree-felling accident, where the little dying child calls for “Mama” must have stirred others in some way.

Exactly how a people could vote in favour of inflicting damage on themselves must seem perplexing at first glance.

 Sunday Cartoons

Dear Editor, We continue to be amazed by the many different stories which are being peddled in certain sections of the media and other places about the installation and operation of parking meters in the city.