Opinion

Dear Editor, Agriculture has always been the basis of Guyana’s development.

Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is quoted in the press as saying that “Government could buy out the Berbice Bridge”.

Dear Editor, I was under the impression that the $50,000.00 minimum wage was applicable to employees within the band scale in the public service, but, having read Sasenarine Singh’s article, ‘Motivation to stay’, in the Guyana Chronicle it would appear that my impression was wrong, since, as he asserts, it is applicable to every employee.

Not content with its aggressive posture towards Guyana and provoking tensions with Colombia, its western neighbour, the government of the so-called Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has also trained its sights on the new Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro.

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Dear Editor, The death of 769 pilgrims outside Mecca, Saudi Arabia is most tragic.

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Dear Editor,   Two contributions caught the attention in the surge of expressions shared re social cohesion/national unity/national front thinking and efforts.

Dear Editor,   If Tony Cozier were not so influential in WI cricket I would not bother to refer to his writings, which I find so detached, if that is the right word, and generally so unilluminating.

Dear Editor,   I have noticed in the press recently that member of the National Assembly, Mr Bernard Rajkumar, representative for Region Two/Pomeroon-Supenaam suggested that a minimal fee be charged for using the Anna Regina car park.

Dear Editor, We are all aware of the ever increasing congestion on our roads, particularly with regard to access to, and around Georgetown.

Dear Editor,   As we continue to examine the claim by Venezuela to a significant portion of our land, we need to be reminded that this matter was settled by an international arbitration award in 1899.

Dear Editor,   Following the change in government, many public officials were either fired or forced to resign whilst others resigned by themselves.

Dear Editor,   I applaud economist Dr Ramesh Gampat for penning his brilliant pieces on economic matters.

Dear Editor, As a PPP/C supporter I would like to point out that President David Granger has many positive character attributes.

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Dear Editor,   German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken not only for Germany but for several other emerging economies such as India and Brazil when she said that it is high time for the United Nations Security Council to be reformed to reflect the real distribution of power across the world.

The spectre of the major powers’ leaders finding themselves at the current 70th General Assembly meeting devoted, among its other preoccupations, to a focus on Sustainable Development will have drawn global attention.

Dear Editor,   With the Ankoko affair and the Rupununi uprising, you come to realise that the Venezuelan past government meant business and the present one still means business.

Dear Editor, Minister of State Joseph Harmon in his recent post cabinet press briefing to the media which was reported in SN on Sept 24, stated that some contractors were deliberately under-bidding government projects to win contracts only to return later with lame excuses to justify the need for contract cost increases, thereby causing bona fide contractors to be cheated out of government contracts.