Opinion

Dear Editor, The boundaries of the City of Georgetown have not changed over the years and yet after a little rainfall the main section of the city is inundated.

Dear Editor, I am aware that under certain ideologies the facts do not matter; sometimes they do not exist.

Dear Editor, In the next two weeks all of Guyana’s young people who wrote examinations will be anxiously visiting their respective schools or signing on to the CXC website to access the results of the May/June 2015 CSEC and CAPE examinations.

Dear Editor, Russia has vetoed a draft of the UN Security Council resolution calling for an international tribunal on the crash of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine on July 21, 2014.

Dear Editor, Mr Royston King, recently appointed Town Clerk of the Mayor & City Council was seen on TV making an informative presentation of his agenda for upgrading the capacity of the council’s officers and employees to deliver a better level of services and products.

Dear Editor, Not so long ago I was involved in a rambling discussion concerning writers.

Dear Editor, I continue to wish the government well, in part because the PPP/C-led government was so thoroughly corrupt.

Dear Editor,   As a dentist who has been in practice here in Guyana for a number of years and has also been in practice in Brooklyn, New York, for about the same time, I would like the public to understand the ramifications of getting dental treatment from a ‘quack’ or false dentist.

Dear Editor, Like the myriad of concerned Guyanese, I have been following the vicissitudes of the rice sector, and like most, if not all, look forward to the early resolution of the circumscribing factors.

Dear Editor, 1) The appointment of public servants to be part of depleted and mismanaged NDCs and municipalities; the dissolution of some councils and their replacement by appointed IMCs are not a creation of the PPP or the PPP/C but are captured in the relevant legislative provisions on local government.

Dear Editor, I went to the Ministry of Education’s department in the Queen’s College compound to uplift my daughter’s examinations certificate and was told by one of the staff that I could not collect the certificate because my daughter had to give me an authorization.

Dear Editor, I wish to supplement the advice given to the police by Mr Roger Bhulai in the SN letters column this week that bicycle patrols are more appropriate for our streets than horse patrols (July 29), and suggest that we seriously consider using the bicycle more than we do now for regular, routine commutes within the city and even for short commutes in the countryside, instead of using our private cars and taxis.

Dear Editor,   I really appreciate the time taken by former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds to answer questions I had asked in a previously published letter in regard to the Amaila Falls Hydro Project.

As we reported last week, Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge has said that Guyana is still hoping that Caricom will reach a consensus on a single candidate for the position of Commonwealth Secretary-General, to be decided, in November, at the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, in Malta.

Dear Editor, Dishonest politicians in the region must be careful because there is a wind of change blowing from as far as South America.

Dear Editor, In the Electoral Assistance Bureau’s Final Report on the 1997 General Elections, I observed that the ethnic composition of the National Registration Centre was very lopsided, and expressed the hope that some time in the near future, we might select people for office based purely on qualifications and not on ethnicity.