Opinion

Dear Editor,   In the Stabroek News of August 5, Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine, was reported as disclosing that he intends to amend parts of the National Grade Six Assessment process.

Sunday Cartoon

At least the government is still listening to criticism, and that is a major point in its favour.

Dear Editor,   If there is a single public issue in which Ram & McRae and I have devoted consistent interest it is in matters pertaining to the budgets of the public sector.

Dear Editor,   The new government deserves the time and space to do its job, each of which has been afforded.

Dear Editor, In her presentation to the nation’s Budget debate in Parliament on the evening of August 20, 2015, opposition PPP Member of Parliament, Ms Gail Teixeira, erroneously claimed that the Guyana Consulate in New York has been taken over by the APNU Group in New York.

Dear Editor,   From the interactions I have had with Mr Hydar Ally in his capacity as Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, I cannot but classify him as a humble person with a strong respect for people, who is not manipulated by arrogance.

Dear Editor, For some years past the name of Juan Edghill was probably better known than the organisation of which he was then Chairman.

Dear Editor,   As a regular reader of your letter column, I have been following most of the letters written by Hamley Case on Unamco.

Dear Editor,   Stabroek News’ commendable editorial captioned ‘FIFA’s arrogance’ (August 11) apart from being insightful about the modus operandi of the organization, also exposes the lack of foresight on the part of those tasked with the responsibility of normalizing the state of local football.

Dear Editor, Over the past months, I have been involved in numerous conversations about the rising crime rate.

Dear Editor,   Your August 16 paper carried a statement reported to have been made by Ms Pauline Sukhai, former Minister of amerindian affairs that she was entitled to her $2.1M dental treatment at the public’s expense, and her illogical conclusion that Indigenous people did not object because her party, the PPP, won the hinterland regions in the last elections where most Amerindians reside.

Politikles

Dear Editor,   Most Guyanese and Caribbean nationals are supporting the Democrats in the United States and would like to see another Democrat in the White House after Barack Obama demits office in January 2017.

If a quarter of the food wasted each day could be given to people who need it, there would be more than enough to feed every malnourished person on earth, according to the UN.

Dear Editor,   Cognisant of an article published in the Stabroek News of Thursday, August 20, 2015, under the caption ‘Woman says Linden police beat nephew to confess murder,’ the Commissioner of Police, Mr Seelall Persaud, has directed the Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) to conduct investigations into the allegations stated.

Dear Editors,   I refer to an article in the Stabroek News of Tuesday July 28 headlined ‘Roopnaraine promises to work with WICB to find a solution.’

Dear Editor,   Prior to the election of a new executive of the Guyana Press Association (GPA) in March this year, news had circulated of a culture of abuse entrenched in a local newsroom.

Dear Editor, Accusations are mounting against a farmer in Region 2 for violating the law by cutting the canal dam to drain his some 50 acres of a virgin plot in the backlands of the Middlesex-Vilvoorden area.

Dear Editor,   The APNU+AFC continues to dabble in semantics as the government seeks to create the impression that they have a plan for hinterland development which is different from and better than anything the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic government ever had in place.