Opinion

Dear Editor, I read with interest an article carried in your Wednesday, December 4, 2024, edition of the Stabroek News that the Ministry of Housing and Water, department of Central Housing and Planning Authority where ‘seven small business operators were provided financial compensation, totaling $676,000.00, through the ‘Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme (AHAUP).’

Guyana has long gone past the stage of oil and gas being no more than a pipe dream.

Dear Editor, The time is 5 PM on this day of the 6th December 2024.

Dear Editor, I kindly ask that you afford me the same space as you regularly afford one Mr.

Dear Editor, I was deeply concerned by recent comments made by Opposition representative Terrence Campbell in a Stabroek News article dated December 6, 2024, regarding the Natural Resource Fund (NRF).

Dear Editor, I thank Dr. Vishnu Bisram for pointing out an economic approach towards distributive justice in managing oil wealth in Suriname: ‘“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’ (SN 2024-12-07).

Dear Editor, This letter serves as a response to recent opposing views regarding the Jonestown Memorial Tour and its value as part of Guyana’s historical narrative.

Dear Editor, I was pleased to see that positive changes have been made in the distribution of the Pension books, and that receiving my Pension book was once again a pleasant experience.

Dear Editor, The letter by Krishna Nand Prasad in your December 6th edition is truly heartbreaking and highlights the dire need for the government to prioritize the well-being and dignity of senior citizens in our country.

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.