Opinion

Dear Editor, It has just been pointed out to me that of 35 persons just announced as chairs of state-appointed boards, only seven have Indian-sounding names.

Dear Editor, The stranglehold rice millers have over paddy farmers is a perpetual problem that has been around for decades.

Dear Editor, My experience at the passport office today was a good one.

Dear Editor, I was very instrumental in the APNU+AFC campaign running up to the general and regional elections, like so many others here in Region Two.

Dear Editor: The nation has been informed that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has examined the file pertaining to the alleged transfer of government vehicles to former minister of public service, Dr Jennifer Westford, and has recommended that a charge be brought.

Dear Editor, In recent times, two prominent PPP leaders have made troubling statements on the Venezuela-Guyana border controversy.

Dear Editor, The musings of WICB President Cameron: “I must say to you that we`re probably 90% sure that we`re not going to make it to the Champion`s Trophy at this point in time.

Dear Editor, If reports and letters in the print and online media, and posts on social sites are to be believed, many supporters of the APNU+AFC coalition are taking great pleasure in revelations of evidence of malfeasance, corruption, poor governance and possibly illegal conduct, perpetrated by the previous regime.

Dear Editor, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, passed away on Monday Jul 27 at a conference in Shillong, North India, where he was making a presentation on how to create a better world.

World leaders will gather again in New York in two months’ time to attend the United Nations General Assembly and this year’s event has already been forecast as one that will be off the charts for several reasons.

Dear Editor, We, who have been working for over a decade at realizing our national dream of harnessing one of our waterfalls to provide our electricity, welcome the questions on Amaila put by Mr Puran in his letter appearing in Stabroek News and the Chronicle on July 23.

Dear Editor, I was surprised to encounter a mounted police patrol in Bel Air Park and then a different one in Campbellville on the same day and within the space of 20 minutes.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to the statement in the Sunday Stabroek news item titled ‘Venezuela plotted overthrow, kidnap of Jagan in 1964, US document says’ (July 26).

Dear Editor Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s recent article entitled ‘Sean Hinds’ should be taken seriously by the coalition government and umbrella cultural organizations in Guyana, and they should not speculate about his integrity or reasons for writing.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Social Cohesion had a regional consultation on social cohesion at Belladrum Primary School, West Coast Berbice on July 25.

Dear Editor, With reference to talks on the 2015 budget between the government and the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), I read in the press Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan’s report on the meeting.

The campaign towards general elections in Trinidad & Tobago, announced in mid-June to be held on September 7, appears to be getting more and more truculent, leading some observers to wonder what the atmosphere will be like by the time the scheduled date arrives.

Dear Editor, Dave Martins ‘So it go’ in Sunday Stabroek of the 28th, was indeed correctly titled ‘For the last time’, because as we all know complaints that “todays music is garbage!”