Opinion

Dear Editor, Up to the elections of May 11, 2015 the published basic salaries of parliamentarians were as follows:        Any but the obdurate can quickly recognise the disparity in relative values, specifically in the levels of responsibility and decision-making which inhere.

Dear Editor, I wish to continue to examine the attempt by the APNU+AFC coalition government to fabricate a controversy regarding their “discovery” of $60 billion in certain commercial banks in the names of certain semi-autonomous statutory agencies.

Modern news coverage often suggests that we are perpetually in crisis.

Dear Editor, Fidel Castro has marked his 89th birthday with a newspaper column repeating assertions that the US owes socialist Cuba numerous millions of dollars in damages caused by its decades-long embargo.

Dear Editor, It was reported in SN of August 12, that Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan has requested the Inter-national Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) to conduct an independent review of Guyana’s Financial Sector Assessment Programme and that this is likely to be carried out in 2016.

Dear Editor, There have been a considerable number of views offered about increases in pay to both parliamentarians and public servants at this juncture.

Dear Editor, An interesting legal issue has arisen in the tiny state of St Kitts/Nevis where lawyers have filed a suit in the courts to block the Attorney General from removing the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) from office.

Dear Editor, I applaud Pastor Wendell Jeffrey (I don’t know him) for his no-nonsense letter in SN on August 11 delineating his perplexity regarding the government’s remigration programme.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your August 12, 2015 edition under the article captioned ‘Jagdeo blames Skeldon sugar project failings on Booker Tate’s “incompetence”’.

Dear Editor, While polling in Trinidad in the critical St Joseph constituency, I met Uncle Lenny Lall, who, in addition to relating his opinion on the upcoming elections in Trinidad, had an interesting story to tell of his work experience in Guyana and about Guyanese hospitality after he realized I am Guyanese.

Dear Editor, Hardly a day passes without an embarrassing soap opera-like episode in Guyana, but at the end of the day regardless of where the blame falls, the only people who are suffering are our hard-working Guyanese men and women, not to mention our large youth population which is caught in this acid-like blame game.

Dear Editor, We learn little things from our environment and nature every day once we pay attention.

Dr Rudi Webster, the renowned sports psychologist and former West Indies cricket team manager, has, in a recent article, ‘The WICB: over-managed and under-led’, provided some telling comments on the afflictions of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) amidst some illuminating insights into the difference between management and leadership.

Dear Editor, Various media reports indicate that the government is considering giving concessions to small-scale gold miners because of financial distress.

Dear Editor, President Granger’s recent announcement of an enquiry into the killings in the first decade of this century suggests a welcome development in his thinking.

Dear Editor, In regards to the Rudisa issue, I tried refraining myself from becoming involved even after the Commissioner General (CG) of the GRA had made some thoughtless comments back in May of 2014 on this matter.

Dear Editor,   Further to my letter of August 10 (‘Stand firm against our gov’t paying anything to Rudisa/CIDI,’ SN), I wish to apologize to you and your readers for I quoted the wrong reference with respect to the CCJ hearings.

Dear Editor, Guyanese citizens are been ripped off by certain Chinese’ store operators and there seems to be no recourse.