Opinion

Dear Editor, Suppose net migration, and hence remittances, was zero over the past several years.

Dear Editor, I read with considerable concern, coupled with mild amusement, some cacophonous utterances allegedly issuing from three high officials of the administration whose troubled demeanours spread across the printed media were unwittingly calculated to elicit utter distress from a bewildered citizenry.

Dear Editor, Last week I wrote on national uni-ty. The gravamen of my contention was expressed thus: “Though they may number in the hundreds, if not thousands, not one of those chanting the mantra of ‘national unity’, at least as far as I can recall, has taken the time and energy to articulate in a document for public scrutiny, what this concept connotes, how it can be achieved and how will it manifest itself practically, pragmatically and politically.”

Dear Editor, This is a strange society; it is strange to the point of being upside down on several fronts.

Dear Editor, I have just returned to Guyana for the fourth time in ten years and as usual I am regularly asked the proverbial question, “So what do you think about Guyana?”

Dear Editor, APNU+AFC Member of Parliament Audwyn Rutherford during his 2015 Budget speech in the National Assembly of Guyana made the following remarks: “Budget 2015 brings an end to the neglect of Linden”.

Most high-profile remarks to the US Congress can be safely forgotten within a news cycle.

Dear Editor, There will be a lunar eclipse on Sunday evening, September 27, 2015.

Dear Editor, In celebrating Indigenous peoples heritage and also education month this September, I would like to wish all my fellow Indigenous people and all Guyanese a happy heritage and education month.

Dear Editor, Further to my SN letter of September 21(‘Remittances are responsible for about 17% of GDP’), I would like to conclude the discussion of remittances by looking at two issues: why do migrants send remittances back home, and how do recipients use the remittances they receive?

Dear Editor, It is clear from the actions and attitude of some Regional Education Officers that they are geared to frustrate the parents and teachers in Kwakwani.

Dear Editor,   Some of the self-serving decisions made in terms of priorities and relationships are coming back to haunt this nation in the worst possible way.

Dear Editor, The Chief Education Officer, Mr Olato Sam in a recent address to stakeholders in education is reported to have asserted that “…the weaknesses we see in the children are a reflection of our teachers’ failings.”

Politikles

Exactly what President Nicolás Maduro thinks he is doing has everyone perplexed.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the latest police catastrophe, which has claimed the life of yet another young officer, traumatized his colleagues and has further devastated the already tattered morale of the Guyana Police Force.

Dear Editor Dr Ramesh Gampat’s letter ‘Investment is not a major driver of economic growth in Guyana’ (SN, September 15) has given much food for thought, and further complements the discussions on economic growth in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Venezuela’s show of strength by parading armour at its borders with Guyana is aggressive and provocative.

Dear Editor, The provocative Venezuelan border build-up is, at the risk of understatement, ominous, and calls for round-the-clock vigilance.