Opinion

Dear Editor, The fact that this government is less than five months old and believes it is their birthright to have their salaries increased so stupendously is truly amazing.

Dear Editor, It must be that APNU+AFC’s foremost and primary interest is the fulfilment of their personal interest.

Dear Editor, My appeal to former president Jagdeo to intervene and prevent someone from breaking my house, throwing it on the road and confiscating my land did not prevent it from happening.

Dear Editor, Seven long years have passed and NIS is still to get my contributions right in order for me to obtain my pension benefits.

Dear Editor, Calls for a boycott of any media are unacceptable unless the boycott is to protest an inequity in coverage of events or some other injustice.

To say that the recent bombshell news of the arrest, in New York, of former Antigua and Barbuda ambassador to the United Nations and 2013-2014 UN General Assembly president Dr John Ashe, on charges of corruption and tax evasion, is deeply embarrassing to his country and Caricom as a whole would be a gross understatement.

Dear Editor, The Walter Rodney Youth Move-ment wishes to state our dissatisfaction with the method and timing of the increase in the salaries of ministers and the members of parliament.

Dear Editor, As you might recall there was significant media coverage on the passing of my father Elvin McDavid last year, who was one of Guyana’s most distinguished public servants during the time of the post-colonial Burnham era.

Dear Editor, On November 13, 2014, I filed an application with the Child Care and Protection Agency to legally adopt a 16-year-old child, who’s biological father had abandoned her since she was a two-year-old baby.

Dear Editor, Could the President of Guyana, acting in his capacity as the Chancellor of the Orders of Guyana, explain the rationale and give justification to the Guyanese public for selecting Hamilton Green to be the recipient of the second highest national award?

Dear Editor, The revelations that Carifesta X (2008) was estimated to have cost $1 billion, as opposed to the $500 million claimed by former minister of culture Dr Frank Anthony come as no surprise to me considering the studied and perennial reluctance of Dr Anthony to provide answers not only on this issue but several others.

Dear Editor, In an incontrovertible period of economic slowdown in Guyana, the new Granger-led APNU+AFC government’s decision to increase their salaries by over 50% while other public servants got less than 5% has in one fell swoop converted itself from the incompetent to the incompetent and heartless.

Dear Editor, On Monday October 5, I decided to visit the National Communications Network (NCN) at the Cotton Field, Essequibo Coast government compound, since I was told that it was in a deplorable condition.

If you work in an office where the number of women employed is at least 12, then according to the most recent statistics for the region, four of them would have been or will be raped, beaten, coerced into sex, verbally, mentally or emotionally abused.

Dear Editor, The time is over-ripe for the establishment of a Behavioural Science Unit in the Guyana Police Force or to make such a facility available to the police.

Dear Editor, Earlier yesterday (October 6), seven individuals, some in the uniform of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), visited residents in Uitvlugt on the West Coast of Demerara.