Opinion

The IMC should acknowledge the Rupert Foster report

Dear Editor, Amid the continuing and equally contentious differences between the government anointed Interim Management Committee (IMC) and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), I feel compelled as a member of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) to support the members of the GCB in the light of the Rupert Foster Audit Report and in particular Mr Sheik Ahmad, who is the President of the Essequibo Cricket Board and former Treasurer of the Guyana Cricket Board.

The PPP is the last government which should talk about intractable postures

Dear Editor, I have been watching patiently as our new political situation unfolds, and I have seen numerous signs that the PPP does not understand the current dispensation, starting with that first article in the media when Mr Nandlall was recorded as telling the opposition that his department will not be drafting or re-tabling any bills modified to the wishes of the now opposition controlled parliament, since he says that he is working for the executive and not the legislative part of government.

Flooding and incompetence

As stated in the February 5, 2012 Sunday Stabroek editorial, after two decades in office inclusive of a major disaster seven years ago, the PPP/C government has run out of excuses where it relates to viable solutions and a comprehensive plan to confront flooding.

Of floods, black plastic bags and political theatre

Those of us who live in towns where floods find us ankle deep in water and filth whenever there is drizzle that goes beyond a few minutes, cannot possibly visualize – even with the help of the pictures that appear in the newspapers – the really hellish conditions that prevail in other more low-lying regions of the country in these La Nina times.

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