Opinion

Dear Editor, It is 4.30 am and the bus travelling from Lethem to Georgetown has reached its first police checkpoint.

Dear Editor, We, the residents and occupants of East Street are appealing to President David Granger to discontinue the implementation of a paid parking area along East Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown, and for the removal of the steel barricades which have been erected there.

Dear Editor, Dr Tarron Khemraj, in the fourth paragraph of his article captioned ‘How to gain over US$1 billion per year from Guyanese Diaspora’ (Stabroek News, January 13), writes “Patronage also explains why mid-level professionals like Mr Winston Brassington are being harassed by the APNU+AFC government” and “SARU is just a charade to pacify an ethnic mass easily swayed by simplistic propaganda and flawed calculations.

Dear Editor, After having lived for several decades in the USA I returned to Guyana to help develop my beloved country with my hard-earned dollars.

Dear Editor, With so many daunting challenges facing GuySuCo, particularly a foreseeable lengthy period of low sugar prices, increasing labour costs, difficulties in mechanization, and negative impacts of climate change, it is very unlikely that GuySuCo in its present configuration can attain the level of production and profitability needed to give it a stable and sustainable future.

Dear Editor, I learnt through the local media recently that the Deputy Mayor of Georgetown Ms Patricia Chase-Green has signalled her intention to run for the position of Mayor at the upcoming municipal elections in 2016.

Dear Editor, I am frustrated at the lack of proper customer service by the so-called telecommunications giant of Guyana that treats its customers like beggars rather than valued people whose payments feed the day-to-day operations of the company.

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” wrote William Wordsworth about the early days of the French Revolution, “but to be young was very heaven.”

Dear Editor, Is it a surprise that Holder is expressing the same view that Gayle implied years ago that cricketers should be assisted in their quest for higher incomes than those which could have been earned when there was only one form of cricket?

Dear Editor, As LGE 2016 looms there is every indication that there is an unequal playing field among the contenders.

Dear Editor, I have read with much interest, Ms Syeada Manbodh’s letter in your column on January 11, captioned ‘Government should do more to protect wildlife and domestic animals’.

Today’s issue of the Stabroek Business details the contents of a letter it received from Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Major General (ret’d) Norman McLean that seeks to provide an update on the now twice postponed public/private sector National Economic Forum which was originally scheduled to take place last September.

Dear Editor, I refer to the Stabroek News article of January 14, with the headline ‘NICIL’s Deputy head complains to cops of being shadowed by unknown persons.’

Dear Editor, I share a few passing thoughts on a handful of issues.

Dear Editor, Please refer to an article in Thursday, January 14 edition of Guyana Times entitled ‘National Youth Policy yet to be implemented’ in which Charles Ramson Jr stated in referring to the National Youth Policy that “you have Norton being paid $500,000 a month who is specifically designated to do this; you have a minister, but both of them are unable to come up with the national youth policy.”

Dear Editor, I refer to a statement by Tarron Khemraj in the Stabroek News of Wednesday, January 13, that I once referred to the Guyana diaspora as traitors (‘How to gain over US$1 billion per year from Guyanese Diaspora).

Dear Editor, I appreciate sentiments expressed in Mr E B John’s letter, ‘Kanhai was a great Guyanese – not Indo-Guyanese ‒ cricketer’, (SN, January 7).

Dear Editor, In this hard guava season NCN CEO Molly Hassan and NCN Human Resource Manager Darren Khan were forced to resign from their prestigious jobs.

Dear Editor, Violent crimes, brutal murders, a large number of suicides coupled with massive corruption are a bugbear to the country’s development, since the police and other law enforcement agencies are unable to deal with the volume of crime now taking over the country.