Opinion

Dear Editor, Some time ago, Messrs Ronald and Rustum Bulkan, Joint Managing Directors of Precision Woodworking Limited (PWL) called to request a meeting with me.

Dear Editor, Much has been said on social media about Guyana Defence Force soldier, Sergeant Robert Pyle, his wife Stacy Pyle and canter driver Linden Eastman all of whom died on Carifesta Avenue following a horrific collision.

Dear Editor, I find it amusing that the city council’s Town Clerk along with probably the world’s longest serving Mayor, have at last found their voices.

Dear Editor, I would like to draw attention to the bill payment facilities for DSL and landline services at Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company Limited (GT&T) local branch offices on Brickdam and Church Streets.

Dear Editor, I read in various sections of the media that explosive batsman Jonathan Foo should have been included in the Guyana Jaguars Nagico Super50 squad.

Dear Editor, Self-control or self-condemnation; self-determination or self-destruction; and self-sufficiency or self-sacrifice are the issues faced by Guyanese society in the fifty years of Independence.

Earlier this week, as economies in the developed world anxiously awaited the fallout from China’s tumbling stock market, key international aid agencies issued a warning that a severe El Niño event this year will likely produce drought, crop failures and food shortages for millions of people during the next few months.

Politikles

Dear Editor, I refer to Pastor WP Jeffrey’s letter, ‘It is difficult for overseas Guyanese offering skills to break into the inner circle of bureaucracy’ (SN, January 1).

Dear Editor, Management would like to thank Messrs Sahadeo Bates and George Daniels for expressing their concerns about the services offered by the airport’s Red Cap porters and taxi drivers.

Dear Editor The media on January 6 and 7, reported on the case of a 20 or 21-year-old man and 14-year-old girl who were found dead in East Berbice.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to an article written by Mr B Balkarran which was published in the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News on Thursday, January 7, in relation to co-operatives in Guyana (‘The enquiry into coops should start at head office’ SN, Jan 7).

Dear Editor, I write in relation to a self-imposed mandate that is arbitrarily being applied by various government and other agencies, including GPL, GRA, GT&T, NIS, etc.

Dear Editor, In a news article of January 5, it was reported that Bharrat Jagdeo, former President of Guyana and now Leader of the Opposition has warned that his party will oppose any move to privatize the sugar industry (GuySuCo).

Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate the Critchlow Labour College administration for bringing off their graduation exercises after a hiatus.

Dear Editor, Governments will always begin with good intentions and they will always manage to turn some of these good intentions into actions which contain some good.

Dear Editor, The recent public disclosures by the union GAWU as to the authenticity of data pertaining to sugar workers’ earnings, as contained in the released findings of the GuySuCo Commission of Inquiry (CoI), raises many doubts about the credibility and objectivity of the CoI.

Dear Editor, I was given a special invitation by the Prime Minister’s office to attend the commissioning of the Lima pump at 11am and to attend a special meeting with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder at 1.30 pm on January 4, at State House to discuss the way forward with rice production and agriculture in Region Two.

Dear Editor, I am convinced more and more every day that my desire to see an inaugural ex-offender rehabilitation centre established in Guyana is rooted in logic and basic common sense.

Dear Editor, As a youth of the Alliance For Change, I would like to take this opportunity to give my unequivocal support to the private member’s bill brought to the National Assembly entitled ‘An Act to amend the Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Act 1988’ (Bill No 17, 2015).