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Dear Editor,   First of all I wish to congratulate the APNU+AFC coalition government for presenting one of the best budgets in the past 23 years; it can be seen as a working class one with a quantum of relief given to all sectors, including a hefty increase in public service wages and salaries, old age pensions and public assistance; and the removal of taxes on a number of consumer goods.

Dear Editor, Former local journalist, Godfrey Wray’s letter from the diaspora titled, ‘Remi-grants don’t expect to be confronted with bottlenecks and indifference; (SN, August 14) got me thinking.

Dear Editor, A recent editorial (SN, August 14) captioned ‘Management and leadership’ referred to an article with an interesting title by Dr Rudi Webster: ‘The WICB: over-managed and under-led’ which reportedly provided some insights into the difference between management and leadership.

Dear Editor, The national and regional elections are over and the citizens of this country are eagerly awaiting the fulfilment of one of the hundred days promises, which is the announcement of the date for local government elections (LGE).

Dear Editor, From all the evidence ‒ exhibitions, pronouncements, and costumes, this is the time, indeed the season, of celebrating African history and consciousness of Africanness.

Dear Editor, For some time I have been speechless that someone influential in society can allow themselves to be referred by a title that has not been achieved.

Dear Editor, The government is spending $221 billion from August 2015 to March 31, 2016.

Dear Editor, Red rice weed is currently causing havoc in the rice industry in Guyana.

Dear Editor, In the course of the evening of August 14, I called GT&T via 0448 to report no access to the internet.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s budget has won plaudits from the private sector and other sections of society for the practical prescriptions and measures announced.

Dear Editor, The role of the private sector in the development of our country is not to be denied and I have always advocated that, for genuine development, the private sector should be the real engine of growth.

Dear Editor, The issue raised by Attorney-at-Law Mr Leon Rockliffe in a letter in the Stabroek News of August 15 ‘Government should urgently amend the Land Registry Act’ has been raised by the Guyana Bar Association and the legal profession on a number of occasions.

Dear Editor,   The Justice for Walter Rodney Committee has been following with interest the statements of the current government of Guyana through its spokespersons, Ministers Basil Williams (Attorney General) and Raphael Trotman (Governance).

Dear Editor,   On Thursday 6th August, 2015 when I was told by a hire car driver at Supenaam that he was assaulted by a prisoner who was at the time in police custody at the Supenaam Farmers Wharf, I could not believe what he was telling me, so I enquired from more than a dozen persons whom I know would normally be there, and the hire car driver’s story was true.

Last Monday Stabroek News reported that Dr Veerasammy Ramayya had left the AFC.

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Dear Editor, In this period of change in the administration when key sectors are found to be facing failure, there is an urgent need for Think Tanks.

Dear Editor, In my letter to you, SN August 6 (‘Transactions at the Land Registry are in a state of paralysis’), I referred to the virtual paralysis in business at the Land Registry, following the decision to remove the incumbent Registrar by sending her off on “administrative leave”.