Opinion

Dear Editor, “By any objective measure, the amount of significant, often traumatic, change in organisations has grown tremendously over the past two decades.”

Dear Editor, How does a little dot on the globe dominate such a great space on the world stage?

Dear Editor, Monetary policy is an unintentionally complex subject, with changes in one economic variable typically affecting a number of factors, and these changes themselves being effected through time with secondary effects of the first set of variables on themselves, with other factors being affected at third and fourth levels. 

Dear Editor, I have heard several times the opposition telling the government to fulfill the campaign promise of giving rice farmers $9,000 per bag of paddy but I cannot recollect hearing such promise.

In his contribution to the debate on the 2015 budget, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo stated that his ministry will be producing a white paper on public information policy.

Dear Editor, I attended my first meeting of the Council of the University of Guyana on Wednesday, August 19, 2015.

Dear Editor, Solar farms may not be the total answer to economic development in the hinterland, but they are an essential step.

The week before last, Minister of State Joseph Harmon told the National Assembly that the Red House, which was state property, had been leased in 2012 to a private company for 99 years at the ludicrous rate of $1,000 per month.

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News of August 12, Mr Sherwood Lowe suggested that the police be allowed access to “Gecom’s searchable database of registrants,” so they can “possibly use” same “to fight crime.”

Dear Editor, I must commend the new government for the consideration given to the development of the Indigenous people as laid out in the ten-point plan.

Dear Editor, Economics have led many down a dark road; with some it was pure callous greed, while others confessed it was a springboard to needed finances.

Dear Editor, Nothing for this government will come easy, and it is why it should be very conservative on some things, if only to preserve political capital.

Dear Editor, The barricades that are put up around Public Buildings every time Parliament is in session unnecessarily disrupt the activities of everyone who traverses that area.

Dear Editor, The creation of the Caribbean Patent Convention under the auspices of Caricom is a long awaited and most welcome development towards the harmonization of intellectual property (IP) laws in the region.

Dear Editor, Chief among the reasons for the many problems we face today in terms of quality service in both the public and private sectors is the issue of ethical leadership.

A recent High Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics considered the need to modernize the ways that Caricom states gather and analyse data, and use it to inform development policies.

Dear Editor, Budgets are now in place, but it is not too early to take a look at developmental opportunities for the future.