Opinion

Dear Editor, Last year has been a good year for me with my garden, since I started planting three years ago.

Dear Editor, This government’s recent attempt to railroad three bills by toying with the parliamentary standing orders was shameful stuff.

Dear Editor I make reference to your report captioned ‘Parvatan, GuySuCo silent over disputed sugar workers’ pay figures’ carried in your January 5 edition, where it is said that in addition to Mr Parvatan, the Chairman of the CoI and the company’s Finance Director refused to comment on GAWU’s claim that the levels of wages and salaries are “grossly exaggerated” in the CoI report.

Prime Minister Keith Rowley’s address, at the end of last year, to the people of Trinidad & Tobago following his People’s National Movement’s victory at the polls, has laid out the problems, particularly in the economic sphere, confronting the country.

Dear Editor, The new government appears indecisive at times. Some may label it flexible, or maintaining fluidity in its options and lacking the official dogmatism hitherto the order of the day.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Mr Khurshid Sattaur erred gravely when he shared taxpayers’ information with the administration.

Dear Editor,   We in Guyana are on the verge of celebrating our 50th Independence anniversary on May 26, 2016.

Dear Editor, I note with much trepidation the constant and widespread coverage given to my Brother Mark Benschop in his run up to the local government elections (LGE).

Dear Editor,   If incompetence was a valued, traded commodity, the APNU+AFC coalition administration would have been well endowed since it appears to be bountiful with that particular commodity.

Dear Editor,   There should be a poster at the Cheddi Jagan Airport which reads: “Diaspora not wanted in Guyana.”

Dear Editor, In the capacity of a now retired, proud British trained Registered Mental Nurse, and one who has practised in three large Canadian teaching hospitals, kindly permit me to send a few cautionary notes in the direction of the Public Health Minister George Norton.

Dear Editor, In this 50th year of political independence the quest for unity ‒ which is seen in some quarters as being possible when the two major races (African and Indian) share political space ‒ may be possible between the races, but not the nation, if the present posturing is anything to go by.

Dear Editor, GPL continues to be in the news. I believe that the affairs of the corporation will be enhanced by the early appointment of a new Board of Directors.

Dear Editor, Dr David Hinds commented, “President David Granger’s recent plea for patience and suggestion that they have not yet accumulated the evidence needed for prosecution makes some sense.

Dear Editor, I wish to commend the government and the city council for the clean-up campaign but unfortunately many areas remained untouched.

Dear Editor, There has been a significant increase in crime in Guyana and the numbers keep mounting almost every day.

Dear Editor, It is GPL season. The stalkers and hunters come out almost now to pile on and expose the long soft underbelly of this blinded national deity.

Dear Editor, The pardon debate is vital to this nation. It is use of presidential power that cannot be left unchecked, particularity in a nation saddled with a constitutional system defined by executive/presidential domination.

Dear Editor, Many thanks to publisher of the Kaieteur News for his comments as to why I was fired from the paper in April of last year.