Opinion

Dear Editor, As we craft a new course for Guyana for the next fifty years, it will become necessary for us to develop a more in-depth understanding of how our society is configured and how it functions.

Dear Editor, The recent move by the government to increase ministers’ salaries by exorbitant amounts (50%) has sparked much debate and has caused disheartenment among the populace.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Prime Minister will earn $20,580,000 or US $102,900 per annum.

Dear Editor, Now that Ministers have increased their salaries will they now be in a position to pay their electricity bills?

Dear Editor, Those of us who reflect on the past while contemplating current institutional behaviour, cannot help noting the substantive difference in some employment procedures, moreso in the public sector which is obviously more exposed than the private sector counterpart.

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Power does strange things to office-holders. When they are sitting on the opposition benches they see with great clarity the need for transparency and accountability; they promote the virtues of the meritocratic state, criticising nepotism and patronage, and promise value for money to taxpayers should they ever be voted into government.

Dear Editor, At a recent seminar about the sugar industry at Moray House Trust (MHT), four quite different perspectives were presented by a historian, an economist, an industry expert and a former chairman of GuySuCo.

Dear Editor, The fake ‘furore’ over pay increases to senior executives of the state is sure to be bled for its full propaganda by the opposition, the cynics, and those imbued with a certain culture that left many high functionaries of the old PNC government in modest circumstances at the end of their time in power.

Dear Editor, Your letter contributor (‘Why did NIS announce insurable income ceiling increase in Mirror’ SN, October 6) raises at least three critical concerns.

Dear Editor, I want to express how deeply hurt we were, I and my many, many colleague ministers, of the twenty-three years of PPP/C in office, by those words of Mr Joseph Harmon – “you cannot have a situation like the PPP where they [the ministers] were accepting low salaries because they were thiefing money all over the place.”

Dear Editor, Like so many Guyanese at home and abroad, I have been paying close attention to and blogging on the outrageous decision to hike the pay for coalition government officials and MPs between 20% and 50% for two reasons: 1) the timing of the decision after just over four months in office, and 2) the coalition’s failure to honour its own campaign promise of 20% increases for public servants.

Dear Editor, When I consider the fact that my landline telephone 4424704 at Linden has been out of service for almost five months, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s new motto of “Do more” sounds ludicrous.

Dear Editor, With regard to the announced salary increases that the government has given itself and MPs, a Nacta opinion poll I conducted last August found objection from some 96% of those asked about it.

The 2015 Nobel prizes indicate how much the landscapes of diplomacy and letters have shifted in recent years.

Dear Editor, President Granger and his government promised “a better life for all Guyanese.”

Dear Editor, I read with considerable interest, not to mention a similar measure of satisfaction, the approach volunteered by M Maxwell (SN, October 7) for the protection of Guyana from Venezuela’s “sabre-rattling.”

Dear Editor, In a letter carried by the Stabroek News (October 7) Mr Charles Sohan pointed out that cost overruns incurred on government projects can also be attributed to poor project design instead of “poor management of the greedy and corrupt” as stated by Mr Lindon Stephney .

Dear Editor, South Bend is a little town on the north-western border of Indiana, just about a 10 minute drive from Michigan.