Opinion

Dear Editor, I am heartened by the genuine intentions of our present government to restore order accountability and decency to the Guyanese society as a whole, especially with particular reference to the Minister of Finance’s stated zero tolerance for skullduggery and corruption.

Dear Editor, Ever since the construction of the Marriott Hotel started in late 2011 I have sounded multiple warnings that upon its completion the working class and poorer Guyanese would be denied access to the Kingston jetty and the natural sand beach located there.

Dear Editor, Minister Khemraj Ramjattan must be commended for the action taken on the closing of bars, night clubs, etc, at 2 am with respect to noise nuisance and late consumption of alcohol.

Dear Editor, In the light of the exchange between the pen-name letter writer, M Maxwell and the Stabroek News, I reproduce a small part of the New York Times policy on anonymity.

Dear Editor, A letter writer, Clairmont Lye, noted that 80% of the chairmanship posts to recently appointed state boards are filled by non-Indo-Guyanese (‘In politics perception is reality,’ SN, July 30).

Dear Editor, Former Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Mr Norman Whittaker, made snide remarks about the performance of the M&CC, Georgetown and M&TC, Linden in your letters column on July 31.

Dear Editor, The PPP has wasted billions of dollars maintaining a failed enterprise for political ends, ie, holding on to the votes of sugar workers and their families at national and local government elections.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association has taken note of the decision of the Guyana selectors to leave out Latoya Smith from its fourteen players to represent this country at the WICB Regional Tournament next month in Trinidad and Tobago.

Dear Editor, Mr Findlay’s comments on WI not making the cut for the Champion`s Trophy, “We have only ourselves to blame because we haven’t been playing good cricket,” represent one of those statements that is true but not helpful.

While it’s only been ten weeks since the Cabinet has been in place the President and the Prime Minister will undoubtedly be keenly analysing the performances of individual ministers and determining when changes should be made.

Dear Editor, To follow up the statement by Minister of Governance with responsibility for natural resources, Raphael Trotman, concerning value-adding timber processing (‘Baishanlin, Vaitarna have until year end to begin value-added output -Trotman’ SN, July 30), I offer the following observations– The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) no longer publishes information on which enterprises are exporting logs of which timbers in what volumes to which destinations; notwithstanding that the logs were derived from standing trees which were public assets in the patrimony of the citizens of Guyana.

Dear Editor,   The coalition government needs to be more aware, as well as more politically astute.

Dear Editor,   I read with great delight in your newspaper dated July 31, that local government elections will be held sooner rather than later (December was touted as the tentative month).

Dear Editor,  The annual pension, whenever announced, is never ever retroactive to January 1.

Dear Editor, I have noticed recently that there has been a call for our courts to consider the use of plea bargaining as a means of solving crimes that have defied the efforts of the police over a number of years.

 Sunday Cartoon

Governing any nation nowadays is not an easy task, and in the case of Guyana there are some additional complexities which are too well known to be worth enumerating.

Dear Editor, During the week before the last elections I observed two hymacs and road graders cleaning up the Agriculture Road from the beginning of the road to the end near the NAREI stock farm.

China’s response to the precipitous fall of its stocks betrays not only a profound ambivalence towards free markets, but also a certain measure of scepticism towards the liberal ideals that ought to underpin them.