A lifetime’s wait for local gov’t elections
Dear Editor, For the last 20 years, Guyana has failed to convene Local Government Elections (LGE), even though it is lawfully due every three years.
Dear Editor, For the last 20 years, Guyana has failed to convene Local Government Elections (LGE), even though it is lawfully due every three years.
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Dear Editor, If there were a single policy initiative that would most serve to transform our racially divisive electoral dynamics into a competitive, issue-based political culture, the revival of local government institutions by way of holding local government elections and imbuing these organs with sufficient autonomy to function effectively, would be it.
While the Minister of Youth, Dr Frank Anthony has welcomed the probe of the alleged sexual and physical abuse of girls at the remedial facility, the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), it is clear that major problems exist at the Essequibo institution and that it will have to be radically transformed.
Dear Editor, As the public debate on matters local government continues, more and more it is becoming obvious that there is the need for the local intelligentsia to occupy its rightful place and not surrender its territory to political pronouncements and politicians.
Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to make a few points in response to Mr.
Dear Editor, Approximately 13 years ago animal lover Melinda Janki asked several volunteers to help clean up the Manatee pond in the Botanical Gardens.
No one could have imagined that so much hidden talent resided at the apex of our capital city.
Dear Editor, I wish to respond to an article entitled `Simply Unacceptable!’
Dear Editor, This is the plain truth. The People’s Progressive Party is afraid of elections.
Dear Editor, In December 2013, Minister of Agriculture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy stated that he was unaware of any relationship between the DY Patil group of companies and Surendra Engineering.
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In The Magic Mountain, his fictional masterpiece, Thomas Mann asks, “Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present?”
Dear Editor, May Day in Linden came and went as per usual, since the advent of Town Week – there was nothing especially noticeable, it all went by like a gentle breeze overshadowed by Town Week activities.
Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to ask the following question. Where are the members of the police force that stand for justice, do they exist?
Dear Editor, From time to time the Government deems it necessary to inform the readers of newspapers such as the Stabroek News about progress on projects on which billions of dollars are being spent.
Dear Editor, In a letter in the May 15, 2014 edition of Stabroek News, Melinda Janki wrote: “Before any decision is made about the LEAD project, the Guyanese and American governments should make all the project documents publicly available so that the average Guyanese citizen can read about what the project is about.
Dear Editor, I stepped out of Brian (Buju) Johnson’s taxi and nodded at the security guard at the gates of my old school, Wismar Christianburg Multilateral Secondary.
Dear Editor, I couldn’t help laughing when I read the front page of Wednesday’s issue of SN of a man who was found dead on the road and which was construed by the police as a road accident; but when the autopsy was done two bullet wounds were found in the head which the death certificate recorded as murder.
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