Opinion

Dear Editor, We born, we grow up, we work to pay taxes then we get old and are put out to pasture, literally.

Dear Editor, You can talk until the cows come home but if you do not have unity as a people, others wouldn’t respect you.

Dear Editor, The cost-of-living is unconscionable; it is driving poor Guyanese into deliriums and hallucinations. 

Dear Editor, Mr. Milton Jagannath in a letter in the Stabroek News, 1st October, 2023, completely misread my letter on the subject of enslavement and indentureship.

Dear Editor, The positon of Regional Executive Officer has never been published in the Annual Budget – a matter of indifference to both Government and Opposition.

Dear Editor, Only one Guyanese group had the wherewithal and resources to bid for an oil block in Guyana’s recent auction, it is made up of five black businesswomen who were able to craft a joint venture with international partners, this speaks volumes for their abilities and credibility.

Dear Editor, Guyana became an independent country (nation) at 12 midnight Thursday 26th May 1966.

Dear Editor, It happened before, it is happening again. Each year, when Christmas is almost upon us and the power grid buckles allegedly from increased demand, comes the same platitudes: we will get it fixed; have patience and understanding amid finger pointing. 

Dear Editor, A current photograph of the GCC ground at Bourda doing the rounds on social media triggered a terrible nightmare that devastated my recent night’s sleep.

From its outset, the ‘high octane’ (somewhat glitzy) tempo that characterized the media reporting on the October 9-13 Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) was rather out of sync with the sense of doldrums and crises that have since emerged from the much more sober and serious assessments of the condition of agriculture, and by extension, the state of food security in the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Chartered Accountant, Mr.

Dear Editor, The item ‘Former GDF Chief of Staff warns against large settlement of Venezuelans in Essequibo’ (Demerarawaves September 29) had an interesting and thought provoking line at the beginning. 

Dear Editor, In a recent letter in the press from the Minister of Education it was stated that the shift to the distribution of the school grant instead of using centralized purchasing of school supplies was due to a poor procurement process that resulted in supplies arriving late to the schools.

Dear Editor, I’m a little confused as to whether it is VP Jagdeo who decides over the interest of Guyanese.

On September 21st,  Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo reported that President Irfaan Ali had ordered that an investigation be swiftly conducted to determine who authorised personnel at the Ministry of Natural Resources to bypass advice from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and enter into direct negotiations with ExxonMobil to reduce US$214 million in questionable cost oil claims flagged by IHS Markit to US$3 million.

Dear Editor, In defending the accounting practices and financial statements of Exxon – and by extension, its Joint Venture Partners Hess and CNOOC – Alistair Routledge, Exxon’s CEO in Guyana, claimed that its books are audited.

Dear Editor, The Opposition parties – in and out of Parliament – and several affiliates such as IDPADA-G, went up to Washington last week to attend a two-day “Conference on Guyana” hosted by the Brooklyn-based CGID.

Dear Editor, It has never been my fortune to meet a happy Guyanese.