Opinion

Dear Editor, It gives me great pleasure to write congratulating the Guyana Police Force Traffic Department for what I would consider a fantastic job in controlling the heavy traffic coming from the West Bank crossing the antique Demerara Harbour Bridge heading east into Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter titled ‘These allegations against the PPP/Civic have to be disposed of before country can move forward, let’s get on with the audits’ (SN, September 9).

Dear Editor, Some time ago I was chatting with the family of Joseph B Simon (including his wife and adult children, all of whom have families of their own), and everyone was in agreement that one excellent way to provide employment and preserve their natural pristine environment at the southern end of Pakuri Lokono-Arawak Territory in Region 4 (aka St Cuthbert’s Mission), was via eco-tourism.

Following the defeat of the People’s Partnership (PP) government in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday night, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the outgoing prime minister and leader of the PP’s dominant coalition member, the United National Congress (UNC), told reporters that she didn’t think that “anything went wrong, quite frankly,” in the campaign she led against the victorious Dr Keith Rowley and his People’s National Movement (PNM).

Dear Editor, In a recent letter (SN, August 18), I wrote that Guyana’s population “is not expected to increase significantly by 2050” and that a “Preliminary Report of the 2012 national population census found that Guyana’s population fell by 3,339 between September 2002 and September 2015, falling from 751,223 to 747,884”.

Dear Editor, So few in governance past and present are aware of the fact that the Guyana National Printers is one of the enterprises nationalised at the time when larger business counterparts of the Booker empire were compelling greater attention in Guyana – like the former Bookers Sugar Estates, which alone now make up what is GuySuCo.

Dear Editor,       I found perplexing the reason given by Leader of the Opposition, Mr Bharrat Jagdeo, for not agreeing to President Granger’s request for the PPP/C to participate in the work of the proposed bipartisan sector committees.

Dear Editor, The government has practically come straight out and said that they intend to renege on the contract the Berbice Bridge Company signed with the previous government.

Dear Editor, It is a vexation to the soul to confirm what one always believed with respect to abuse of workers’ rights.

Dear Editor, I write with much frustration as a customer of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T).

It was recently made public that two private sector business entities and an opposition Member of Parliament are indebted to the Guyana National Stadium at Providence.

Dear Editor, Everyone within Guyana and many without would have heard the booming allegations of huge, widespread, deep corruption of hundreds of billions of dollars, against our PPP/C Administration of the last 23 years.

Dear Editor, I just happened to catch a programme the other night in which a sports panel was discussing the current state and future prospects of Guyana’s capacity to produce highly competitive swimmers, after having reviewed the last team effort overseas.

Dear Editor, I am protesting against the Venezuelan claim to our Essequibo territory and maritime space, and after talking with some fellow countrymen and women and young people, I have found that there is a need for Guyanese to be educated on the controversy.

Dear Editor, Sherwood Lowe has provoked serious thought with his observations about police high speed pursuit and the firing of weapons, and the dangers they pose to innocent persons in those circumstances (‘What are the rules of engagement for the police pursuing escaping suspects?’

Dear Editor,     Many bemoan the fact that the asset recovery process seems inordinately long winded, or is not achieving its desired objectives.

Dear Editor, A wind of change seems to be blowing in the Caribbean as the electorates are getting rid of governments which in their view do not serve them in the best interest.