Opinion

Dear Editor, Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Maybe he wasn’t. But a pit-bull he was.

Dear Editor, With respect to the upcoming elections of the Guyana Teachers Union, it is mind boggling for us teachers that the present executive would want to seek re-election to office after having failed us over the years.

Dear Editor, Please refer to Mr Earl John’s letter in your publication of January 21.

Dear Editor,     The water crisis that was confronting Bartica has been addressed with the re-installation of a pump at the Bamford Point GWI Pump House on Saturday, January 30.

Dear Editor, As a former rice farmer and rice extension officer I still hold strong to my view that if water had been pumped early from the Pomeroon river when there was an abundance of sweet water, many acres of rice could have been saved in Region Two.

Dear Editor, Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller shocked Jamaicans and other Caribbean nationals last Sunday night when she announced that general elections in her country will he held on February 25 ‒ ten months before the constitutional date.

Dear Editor, The 2016 budget calls for the banning of used tyres and old cars.

Dear Editor, I applaud the relatively early selection of the squad for the World Cup, the choice of players (although I think more than15 should have been chosen in light of the issue with the world`s greatest limited- overs spinner), and would have liked to see Emrit included.

Dear Editor, I am cocksure that there were a thousand more like me whose attention was also caught by it.

Dear Editor, We would like to call on the Georgetown City Council and all the politicos attached to it to desist from campaigning in the guise of ‘working’ in the weeks leading up the March 18 local government elections.

Dear Editor, The Guyanese society like many societies is complex and as I have mentioned before in some of my letters, Guyana is generally a high context culture, however, there are shifts towards a low context culture particularly by the people, the followership; while the leadership remains largely high context.

It was always likely that one of the important areas of public interest in this year’s budget proposals would be whether or not there would be an announcement regarding salary increases for public servants.

Dear Editor, The management of Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) wishes to thank the letter writer (Cleaning of CJIA not up to international standards, SN 28/01/2016) for expressing concern over the sanitary conditions of the washrooms and carpets.

Dear Editor, At paragraph 3.1 of the budget speech, the Finance Minister admitted the economy recorded a dismal 0.7% GDP growth by mid-year (up to June 30, 2015).

Dear Editor, Mr Lincoln Lewis in a letter to the editor carried in KN and SN (‘The administration must use the Jagdeo government’s performance as an example of what not to be’) of Sunday, January 24, in referring to the announced intended closure of Wales sugar estate, presented again his views that our PPP/C administration of 1992 to 2015, in our reworking of our bauxite sector, was inhumane and violated workers’ rights enshrined in various laws including the Guyana Constitution .

Dear Editor, With the current drought period in Guyana, irrigation may be limited or unavailable in some areas.

Dear Editor, Minister of Social Cohesion Amna Ally and the First Lady recently met the residents of Mabaruma and outlying areas in Region One.

Dear Editor, I submitted a number of proposals for incorporation into the 2016 Budget.

Producing two budgets within six months is a feat that is deserving of the highest commendation and the Minister of Finance and all of those who participated in this process must be given their deserved credit.