Opinion

On Friday, via his Facebook page, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson confirmed that US$9,000 had been transferred in 2017 to his personal account in respect of a trip to China’s Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Macao for a June 2016 construction forum.

Dear Editor, Over the years I have read about the deterioration in the quality of education in Guyana yet I could not believe my eyes upon reading a letter and subsequently an article in recent editions of the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, There is the persistently much ado about the performance of UG’s Vice-Chancellor, all of which is not totally unjustified.

Dear Editor, Over the past two days there has been a back and forth between the People’s Progressive Party and Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson on Facebook.

Dear Editor, In a letter published in your paper on May 17, 2019 under the title `Senior people being allowed to serve while disobeying Integrity Commission law’ the author and former Minister of Government Mr.

  Dear Editor, On May 16, 2015, David Granger was sworn in as Guyana’s eighth President.

Dear Editor, It is quiet around here in the political straits and the desperate political shoals. 

Dear Editor, The revelation of public funds deposited into private bank accounts bears strands of  resemblance to another episode of this kind which occurred some time ago.

It was chartered accountant and attorney Christopher Ram who first drew public attention to the fact that six ministers of government attended the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) hearings on the no-confidence vote case in Trinidad earlier this month.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News published in its edition of the 17th May 2019 an anonymous letter `Zaila Sugrim’s experience shows neither she nor her husband got the help they needed’ that caused me to pause. 

Dear Editor, On innumerable occasions, I have questioned this Government’s commitment to combat violent crimes, to uphold the rule of law and to act in conformity with the Constitution.

Dear Editor, The existence, and the tabling of a legal opinion, done by GECOM’s legal officer, has raised the ire of some members of the Commission, as expressed both at the 14th May Statutory Meeting of the Commission and by Commissioner Trotman in the media.

Dear Editor, A slowdown has been gripping the Guyanese economy. In travelling around Guyana, observing empirically and talking with shoppers and business people, the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming that the economy has been slowing requiring intervention.

Dear Editor, I’ve a terrible secret: my hearing is bad and getting worse due to three combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dear Editor, Was the presence of six  Ministers of Government at the CCJ hearings intended to put pressure on the Judges to come up with a ruling favourable to the current administration?

Dear Editor, The GAWU saw in the May 15 Stabroek News, Mr Earl John’s letter titled `Progress report needed on investors’ interest in closed sugar estates’.

Dear Editor, I read a letter published in the Stabroek News, 16th May, 2019, titled, `Georgetown is nothing like the Garden City it was in 1971, let us put our efforts together to restore it.’