Opinion

Dear Editor, For the past two months or more, there hasn’t been a day where the crime situation in Guyana has not dominated the headlines of the more popular dailies.

Dear Editor, It is very disquieting that Ms Volda Lawrence is allowed to remain in office given what she has done. 

Dear Editor, It was indeed refreshing to see trade unions from the two umbrella organisations, FITUG and GTUC, march in the streets of Georgetown and converge at the National Park for the first time after many  years.

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Dear Editor, Mr David Hinds protests the censoring of his views in columns in the Chronicle (‘There is need for major intervention at the Chronicle …’ SN, Apr 22).

The symbolism of last Sunday’s ‘unified’ May Day march that brought trade unions representing the GTUC and FITUG under a single umbrella has moved the local labour movement no closer to the hoped-for healing, nor, perhaps more importantly, did it do anything to conceal the fact that, in large measure, political partisanship continues to trump what the labour movement calls workers’ unity.

Dear Editor, Between 18th and 20th April the various media houses carried extracts from a US State Department report which claimed that overcrowding at the various prisons in Guyana was a result of the presence of high numbers of persons on remand.

Dear Editor, I drove around town early yesterday morning and realized that, of the wards of Central Georgetown, only East Queenstown was still experiencing severe flooding. 

Dear Editor, I like to listen to or read great speeches.

Dear Editor, Writing to the letters column of your newspaper is my last resort after one year of complaints to the Environmental Protection Agency, Guyana Human Rights Association and the relevant government ministries.

Dear Editor, Guyana stamped its mark on the international circuit at the Expo 1967 in Canada, and from reading, I understand that the cultural aspects of our nation were well displayed and represented at that event.

Dear Editor, Saturday was supposed to be the final day for the submission of income tax returns, yet when a number of people visited the Diamond branch of the GRA in the morning to submit their returns, it was not open.

Dear Editor, I refer to the news report “Government will not undermine media workers’ professionalism – Granger” (SN, 30 April 2016) in which President David Granger is reported to have said “The Government of Guyana is committed to the promotion of a high degree of media professionalism.

On April 8, the Ministry of Business issued a statement in which it said that the government had given the green light to a proposal from the Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin for a ‘Trusted Trader’ programme to benefit legitimate businesses.

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Dear Editor, The Police Association of the Guyana Police Force wishes to let the public know that it takes umbrage at aspects of a press release issued by the Central Corentyne and Berbice Chambers of Commerce on 28th April, 2016.

Dear Editor, Labour Day 2016 is occurring 90 years after the Caribbean labour leaders met in Georgetown (March 1926), where they put in place a strategy which included, among other things, the struggle for an 8-hour work day, 40-hour work week, right to freedom of association and collective bargaining, internal self-government, and one-man one-vote.

Dear Editor, Guyana today marks the first May Day under the APNU+AFC Government.

The raid on the Ramada Princess in the early hours of Friday marked a new stage in our never-ending crime saga.

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