Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Over the past few days there were debates in and out of Parliament on the credibility of the Old Age Pensioners current register.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Labour has been kind enough to give us a comprehensive list of the former PNC finance minister’s performance while in office.

Dear Editor, Noha Tarek, an Egyptian graduate student studying political science proclaimed to a BBC reporter that she was participating in Egypt’s pro-democracy rallies for greater prosperity, peace and freedom even if her participation resulted in her death. 

Dear Editor, I would like to bring to the attention of the Guyanese public that after doing a fan-out exercise on behalf of the Alliance for Change, I found that many young people who ought to be voting for the first time are not registered.

Dear Editor, The first thing to note is the AFC’s Action Plan did not (and I insist did not!)

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to your article in Friday’s edition of Stabroek Business titled, ‘Georgetown Chamber not financially able to advocate for small businesses, secretary says.’

Dear Editor, I refer to your front page of February 1, where the main one on the left declares for all to see “Law and order at ‘optimal level.’”

Dear Editor, It has been, and continues to be, a refreshing experience of usually urban-based businesses seizing the opportunity to serve communities developing outside traditional geographic perimeters.

Dear Editor, In an article of Feb 2 in SN, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud in response to questions raised by parliamentarian Mervyn Williams on the projected completion date of the Hope Canal Project stated that duration of the project was close to 18 months, with completion in 2012.

Dear Editor, The AFC has presented its Action Plan. It would be the first manifesto to be unveiled, marking the start of a new phase of the election cycle.

Dear Editor, I wish to draw attention to a letter headlined ‘The indigenous people are wiser now’ in SN of January 28, penned by  Martin Cheong.

Dear Editor, The decline of education in Guyana since the 1980s has been a major concern for every educated Guyanese citizen.

Dear Editor, Minister of Human Services Ms Priya Manickchand behaved with apoplectic rage in response to a conclusion in a report by her parliamentary colleague Mrs Sheila Holder that the number of persons to whom the Old Age Pension (OAP) is paid is inflated by 17,640 (phantom persons, according to Mrs Holder) with a loss to the state of over $1.3 billion.

Dear Editor, Recently there has been an increase in prosecutions by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) against registrants under the VAT Act, who for various reasons, have failed to file VAT returns as required by law. 

Dear Editor, When the criminal charge against the two police officers who were involved in the teen-torture case was dismissed, I submitted that it was then too late to institute disciplinary proceedings against them at the departmental level.

Dear Editor, A statistician, letter writers, bloggers and Minister Manickchand have responded to Mrs Sheila Holder’s thesis of phantom pensioners by proposing projected data on the number of individuals above the age of 65.

Dear Editor, I refer to two letters published in the Guyana Chronicle by ghost writers about Navin Chandarpal.

Dear Editor, “Optimal.” That is the word Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, used to describe law and order in Guyana.

Dear Editor, What to make of the comments attributed to the Minister Rohee in your article on Tuesday?

Dear Editor,The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) has been recognized by the Trade Union Recognition Board by a certificate issued on February 28, 2007 to represent workers employed at Linden Electricity Inc (LEI), a company owned by the Government of Guyana.