Opinion

When he announced on October 10th in an address to Parliament that the government had decided on a one-off payment of $200,000 “instantaneously” to each household in the country, President Ali gave no inkling of his thought process or that of the government in what would have amounted to a whopping $60 billion dollars or more expenditure.

Dear Editor, Rupa Place West is a Cul de sac in Bel Air Park about 200 feet long and 20 feet wide. 

Dear Editor, In a Stabroek News article posted on its online platform on December 6th, 2024, with the caption `Natural Resource Fund Board is a rubber stamp – opposition representative’, the article quoted an opposition representative on the Investment Committee of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF), Mr.

Dear Editor, The Indian PM Narendra Modi’s visit last month precipitated discussion on the relationship between the descendants of indentured labourers from India (Girmitiyas) in their new “Motherland” and “Bharat Mata (Mother India) – to use Modi’s words.

While the teachers in our primary schools have been diligently instructing their pupils that Guyana has nine Indigenous nations living within its frontiers, it transpires that currently there are in fact ten. 

Dear Editor, Former Leader of the Opposition, Joseph Harmon was pressured out of that position because the PNCR had turned into a press statement party under his leadership.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to an article in the online version of Kaieteur Newspaper dated December 6th, 2024 titled ‘Showing how oil money being spent would be difficult’ (https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2024/12/06/showing-how-oil-money-being-spent-would-be-difficult/).

Dear Editor,  There is no provision for any effective Royalty in the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement, PSA2016.

Dear Editor, SN is commended for a well written, balanced editorial (DEC 6), “Royalties for Everyone”, on the decision by the government of Suriname to grant a savings note (royalty shareholding certificate) of US$750 to each of its citizens, payable after 2028 with 7% interest and a contrast with Guyana’s grant.

Dear Editor, The cash grant process in Region 9 was chaotic and shambolic to say the least.

Dear Editor, A schedule put out by the government on December 4 on distribution of the $100,000 grant lists several masjids and community centers.

Dear Editor, I am puzzled by the manner of our Administration re the $100,000.payout

Dear Editor,  We all know the wait for the 2025 budget for some to get their entitled $100,000 cash gifts can feel endless, especially when there are bills to pay or plans for Christmas.

Dear Editor, On 18th November, 1978, I was sitting in Guyana’s Consulate Office in New York City as Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister when Forbes Burnham called to inform me that people had been killed in Jonestown and that he would advise me as he learnt more.

Dear Editor, I attended a funeral this afternoon.   Afterwards, many of us began to talk about the coming general elections next year. 

Dear Editor, As the debate on the need to implement biometrics for voter identification in Guyana’s general elections continues, it seems that the focus is really on electronic verification of fingerprints and not facial recognition, voice recognition, or iris (eye) scan.

Dear Editor, ANUG/TNM/LJP formed an alliance through the joinder list provision to contest the elections. 

Dear Editor, Yesterday, I read a letter in the paper urging the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) to honour the original deadline for their film competition.