Opinion

Dear Editor, It occurred to me to enquire what percentage of the population today was around at the time of independence in 1966, and can therefore fully grasp the meaning and esprit of that experience.

Dear Editor, After some eight months of taking up their portfolios, it is timely and reasonable to assess the performance and presence of some ministers.

Dear Editor, Let’s get something straight: tough financial decisions have to be made.

Dear Editor, In Friedrich Nietzsche’s work Thus Spoke Zarathustra he gives a metaphor that describes the evolution of a person from child to man.

Dear Editor, Restoring the nation’s capital city to its former pristine glory, as the Garden City is indeed an onerous task, with the disposal of tons of garbage on a daily basis, along with silt, mud and obstacles from the major drainage canals and debris from the parapet.

Dear Editor, As we now know, look for the words of the prophet between the raindrops.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to a letter published in the Stabroek News of Sunday, January 17, captioned ‘How could our legal system embrace such an obvious illegality for five years’, and in the Guyana Chronicle of Tuesday, January 19.

Late last year, three Guyanese-American siblings won the first place in an Innovating Justice Challenge for the police rating and review mobile and web app they had created and entered into a worldwide competition.

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Politikles

Dear Editor, As we head into local government elections, a request is hereby being made to Gecom or the relevant ministry to publish a map of the boundaries of the proposed new townships, especially Lethem.

Dear Editor, On numerous occasions in the past I have been forced to write on our sugar industry’s difficulties.

Dear Editor, Recently we saw again, another senseless murder of young Guyanese at a wedding house party in Albion, Corentyne, and perhaps it is time that the powers-that-be take a hard look at this out-of-control culture that has developed, particularly (but not exclusively) among the Indo-Guyanese community.

Dear Editor, I read with a deep sense of concern, in your edition of January 18, a statement, supposedly emanating from the Minister of Natural Resources in the article entitled ‘Bauxite output strong but industry battling depressed global prices, high costs.’

Dear Editor, Mr Ian McDonald in one of his many beautiful articles in the Sunday Stabroek, a few months ago, wrote about the tragedy of the death of a child in a vehicular accident; his article was haunting, and poignant.

Dear Editor, It is public knowledge that the police have reduced the duration of their recruit training course from six months to sixteen weeks.

Dear Editor, I make reference to an article captioned ‘Retirees getting ‘fat cat’ salaries – situation forcing political loyalty’ that was carried in KN on January 17, wherein Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran convincingly made the point, with which I wholeheartedly agree, that “the offering of contracts under lucrative terms to retired public and other officials” is an “unacceptable situation” that is “skewed in favour of political loyalty”.

Politikles

The implementation of agreements reached between the Western powers, but essentially between the United States and Iran, is a significant element in the reduction of what we referred to in an editorial last week, as current global uncertainties.

Dear Editor, If there is no FDI document for Bai Shan Lin, how could there be fiscal concessions for more than ten years?