Opinion

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education was kind enough to share with the public, via a Facebook post, that the Carmel Secondary School’s laboratory was ready.

Dear Editor, I am happy to see the plans for the work to be done on the Soesdyke/Linden road. 

What is unfolding in Guyana at this time is, we are being told, an attempt to channel some of our petro resources into a wide-ranging countrywide physical makeover, aspects of which are ongoing in the capital and its environs and in other parts of the coastal plain.

Dear Editor,   It has been brought to my attention that certain members of the PPP/C party, who are also councillors of the City of Georgetown, have been disseminating grossly misleading information regarding a policy recently discussed and approved by the City Council of Georgetown (SN/31/08/24/ The new 25% payment of arrears for political parties makes clear that this PNC-led council always had ulterior motives by Steven Jacobs, councillor; SN/1/09/24/ Outraged at city’s decision to pass motion reducing rates and taxes for political parties by Alfonso De Armas PPP/C councillor).  To be clear, this policy has nothing to do with arrears; it is not 25% payment of arrears; it is a 25% institutional rate that factors in demand and interest (arrears); it is important to recognize and contrast the difference between payment on arrears and an institutional rate.

Dear Editor, As the money come in, plentiful from oil, there is an expectation that the government of Guyana will give the local government authorities their fair share of money to manage their local government authorities’ areas, removing the central government continuous usurpation of the elected council authority.

Dear Editor, Last week Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall told a gathering of lawyers the Constitution of Guyana protects their fundamental rights and freedom.

In an advertisement in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek about developments in the mining sector, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) stated its commitment to mercury reduction.

Dear Editor, The 2024 CSEC results are in.  They have the usual flashes of individual brilliance, followed by the desultory.

Dear Editor, I write with a profound sense of disappointment and outrage over the Georgetown City Council’s recent decision to pass a motion reducing rates and taxes for political parties despite vehement objection and rejection from PPP/C Councillors.

Dear Editor, I have found that when a Guyanese is asked what did our athletes do at the Olympics, they would laugh and reply “wha you think deh woulda do?”

Dear Editor, The Caribbean and Guyana lost one of its greatest persons with the death of Sir Shridath “Sonny” Ramphal on 30 August 2024, just a few weeks shy of his 96th birthday.

Dear Editor, I write to advocate for the preservation and promotion of Sir Shridath Ramphal’s legacy, a distinguished Guyanese statesman and former Commonwealth Secretary-General.

Dear Editor, I have repeatedly written that this PPP government’s idea of development is to spend money on overpriced infrastructure projects it hands out to crony contractors.

Dear Editor, The National Amerindian Development Foundation (NADF) wishes to congratulate the National Toshaos Council (NTC) on successfully completing its recent Conference during August 19 – 23, 2024.

Dear Editor, Today I would like to touch on a topic that has been bothering me for a while now and it seems to be growing out of control in my beloved country: the practice of unqualified or underqualified individuals practicing as veterinarians, basically quacks of the trade.   

Writing in this newspaper last week Dr Bertrand Ramcharan reflected on Guyana’s future political path in terms of democracy or autocracy.

Dear Editor, CRG extends its condolences to the family and friends of Sir Shridath Ramphal.

Dear Editor, I respond to David Patterson’s letter `Every Guyanese will support the bridging of every river in Guyana but not as a burden to its citizens’  (SN 8/29/2024) as a technocrat that led the execution of the Berbice Bridge project under the Presidency of Bharrat Jagdeo and witnessed its commissioning in December 2008.