Opinion

As we enter 2025, the so-called “silly season” is in full effect, bringing one of the most exasperating political behaviours: what about-isms.

Dear Editor, I refer to an SN article (December 23, 2024) captioned ‘President talks tough again on GuySuCo amid poor results, ongoing subventions’ (https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/12/23/news/guyana/president-talks-tough-again-on-GuySuCo-amid-poor-results-ongoing-subventions/).

Dear Editor, While defending the billions allocated to the Gas to Shore project in 2022, 2023 and 2024, the Prime Minister, when asked, committed to provide the National Assembly with copies of the agreements signed with Exxon and other parties on the project.

Dear Editor, There was a recent letter in the press questioning the impact that Guyana could have on localized climate change.

Dear Editor, Roads will be built.  New buildings will be erected.

Dear Editor, In his recent statement, President Irfaan Ali proclaimed that his government has always been “about the people.”

Dear Editor, As we ushered in 2025, it is imperative that we reflect on the pressing lessons from our region’s most harrowing crises, particularly Trinidad and Tobago’s gang turmoil and Haiti’s struggles with organized crime.

Dear Editor, Your news report stated that the Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha threatened Spectre and Tepui on the construction of pump stations on Pouderoyn, West Bank, and Belle Vue, Region 3.

Dear Editor, I am pleased to read that “Counter-trafficking initiatives (are flourishing) in Guyana.”

Dear Editor, Guyanese who sees anything that is honourable or redemptive in the 2016 Exxon oil contract are neither suitable nor worthy for consideration as a national leader.

Dear Editor, I become very irritable when I read certain statements.

Dear Editor, As I have shared before, one of my family members was sexually assaulted, and now the perpetrator is seeking to resolve the matter through a financial settlement.

According to the Government of Guyana (GoG), the $100,000 cash grant initiative is intended as a transformative effort to redistribute wealth derived from the nation’s burgeoning oil revenues.

Dear Editor, Permit me to preface my article on a haunting note of inquiry.

Dear Editor, The letter by Mr. Lincoln Lewis on  December 31 in SN should be read by all Guyanese, wherever they live because the points he makes are very critical to Guyana’s future. 

Dear Editor, There has been a recent flurry of exchanges between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) weaving its tangled web of lies concerning Exxon’s Parent Company Guarantee and responses telling the truth coming from knowledgeable, credible, and patriotic sources such as yours truly and eminent Attorney Christopher Ram, notwithstanding the Honourable Judge Sandil Kissoon’s uncompromising admonishment of EPA, describing the Agency as “derelict, pliant and submissive and acting in unison with Exxon…and at every juncture, is engaged in a course of action to undermine and erode the terms and conditions of its own Permit and has relegated itself to a state of laxity of enforcement and condonation and placed the nation, its citizens and the environment in grave peril and potential calamitous consequences”.

Dear Editor, There are stories to be told of two phenomenal women named Ann Greene, who over the years were mistaken for each other. 

Dear Editor, In his letter captioned “Article 32.3 in the 2016 PSA restricts the sovereignty of the nation and should be reviewed to determine its legality” ( Stabroek News December 30, 2024)  Mr Jamil Changlee writes, “There are factors which may require the urgent and necessary intervention of the Government in the oil and gas sector so as to ensure the safety and security of the region.

Dear Editor, The late Jimmy Carter ‘saved’ Guyana’s democracy in 1992.