Opinion

Dear Editor, The New Guyana Marketing Manager, Nizam Hassan recently announced to staff that they are not entitled to the nine percent increase given by the government.

Dear Editor, Guyanese politics between now and the next general election in 2011 is likely to be dominated by arguments over the surging cost of living and whether there should be cuts in the standard rate of income tax, VAT and corporation tax or whether the considerable resources garnered from these taxes should be devoted to easing the burden of the lamentably poor, increasing public service salaries, major public works, reducing unemployment particularly in the most marginalized communities.

Dear Editor, I refer to your one-sided editorial captioned “Benazir Bhutto” (07.12.30) on the death of Benazir Bhutto.

Dear Editor, On January 1, the Guyana Chronicle published a bizarrely prepared statement purportedly from Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Mr.

Dear Editor, I read with concern Salome Hooper’s letter captioned “Education authorities requiring teacher to apply for official release although not attending university in school hours ” (08.01.01) .

Dear Editor, Clinton Urling is confident that “Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee” (SN Dec 30 2007) in his letter in response to my argument that Hillary Clinton will be nominee.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the West Indies team. This performance was due since the last ICC Champions final against Australia.

Dear Editor, I received a very strange and disturbing letter on December 28, 2007 from the Office of the Regional Democratic Council, Region 6, dated, December 11, 2007 and signed by Shelton Daniels, the Principal Personnel Officer, for the Regional Executive Officer [copy provided].

Dear Editor, If there were an award for Minister of the Year, I would without hesitation nominate Minister Priya Manickchand.

Dear Editor, GPL’s rate increases will serve to further increase inflation, decrease real income and reduce growth.

Dear Editor, General Secretary and would-be presidential candidate of the PPP, Donald Ramotar, seems to think that in some issues an informed public in a free society could be a pesky problem.

Dear Editor, The facts are pretty simple. A piece of land was sold by party A to party B for Rs 22 lakhs.

Dear Editor, My father and I recently took advantage of a special offer from Rainforest Tours in Georgetown to visit the majestic Kaieteur Falls in Region Eight.

Dear Editor, In November and December 2007, Spanish-speaking and Catholic Uruguay, Spain, Chile, and Venezuela joined the small but growing honours roll of nations that have passed legislation banning all forms of corporal punishment of children in all settings.

There are two pointed dilemmas posed to the Minister of Local Government, Mr Kellawan Lall and the government as a result of the infamous bar incident a month ago.

Dear Editor, While reading the Guyana Chronicle on the internet a few photos caught my attention.

Dear Editor, As I stood at the Vreed-en-Hoop bus park, I thought that this is how a bus park should operate, with not a tout in sight, and whenever a bus was filled, it pulled out and an empty bus took its place.

Dear Editor, I read Mr Fenty’s column of Friday, December 28, which mentioned the Nativity and Solomon’s ‘metaphorical’ Songs.

Dear Editor, PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar said that Minister Kellawan Lall had been severely spoken to by the Central Executive of the party and was reprimanded.

Dear Editor, If the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) cannot provide internal security at their home base, how can they defend the territorial integrity of this country of ours?