Opinion

Dear Editor, In an earlier submission I had alluded to the increase in the number and variety of ‘contracted employees’ employed over the five-year period 2009-2013.

Dear Editor,   It was reported in SN of August 17, that Bharrat Dindyal, until recently the chief executive officer (CEO) of Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) was relieved of his duties by David Patterson, Minister of Public Infrastructure.

Dear Editor, With reference to Mr T Ross’s letter ‘Government should take step steps to deal with “ Red Rice”’ (SN, August 17), red rice can easily be controlled by farmers .

Dear Editor,   This government has now established a steering committee to eventually create another committee to reform the constitution.

Dear Editor, I’m a Lindener and I’m very much interested in the state of our region and town.  

Dear Editor,   In reference to the letter written in the Stabroek News by Mr Ronald Bulkan, captioned ‘Ever heard of “Dr Mandela?

The formal reopening of embassies in each other’s capitals, marking a formal resumption of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States will have been generally welcomed around the world.

Dear Editor,   Please permit me through your letter column to congratulate those members of the APNU+AFC and the PPP/C who were elected to give directions, regulations, control, restraint on this nation for next five years, and to quote the seventeenth century Dutch Scholar, Hugo Groutius: “He knows not how to rule a kingdom that cannot manage a Province; nor can he wield a Province, that cannot order a City; nor he order a City, a Family; nor can that man Govern well a Family that knows not to Govern himself; neither can any Govern himself unless his reason be Lord, Will and Appetite her Vassals…”   Yours faithfully, Vernon Lynch

Politikles

Dear Editor,   May I re-state my appreciation of the existence and reputation of your newspaper as the principal reliable medium for the expression of comment on matters of serious public interest.

Dear Editor,   I read Freddie Kissoon’s column of August 11 with great interest.

Dear Editor,   Ever since the Granger-Nagamootoo administration took over three months ago, it has been busy trying to deal with the massive corruption and to ‘right’ the ‘wrong’ during the past 23 years.

Dear Editor,   The Stabroek News of Saturday, August15 carried a story that the number of reports of rape now averages a little over one a day.

Dear Editor,   I was greatly shocked this morning when I read in the newspaper that Mrs Christobel Hughes, the mother of Nigel Hughes, had died as the result of an accident.

Dear Editor,       Myself and family responded to the much advertised horse race held at Port Mourant on Sunday, August 16.

Dear Editor, Having read Ralph Ramkarran’s column ‘Perceptions of discrimination,’ (Sunday Stabroek, August 16)), there are two issues that stand out and cannot be taken lightly since they are coming from a major opinion shaper/leader in this society.

Dear Editor,   I learn of the latest outrage regarding pay packages and the blood boils.

Dear Editor,   The developmental prospects of Guyana are distressingly dismal even with the change in government.

Dear Editor,   My sympathy is with Dr Ramayya who campaigned with the coalition and saw them winning the general elections in 2015.

Those citizens of our capital who thumbed their noses at City Hall’s announcement over the weekend regarding tomorrow’s ‘Green Georgetown Restoration Consultation’ at the National Cultural Centre might be forgiven for doing so given all the circumstances that attend the event.