Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Having a discussion with Mr Juan Edghill is like trying to stand on shifting sand.

Dear Editor, Article 26 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) asserts that everyone has the right to education.

Dear Editor, It was reported in the news media on February 17, that due to bad contract management, the East Bank and East Coast Demerara Highway improvement projects funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have cost the government $543M and still counting for unfinished contract work on these road projects.

Dear Editor, Judicial Review is that area of the law which allows for a citizen who is aggrieved by the act or omission of any public officer, including ministers of government, any public authority or any statutory tribunal to challenge the said act or omission on the ground that the act or omission is unlawful/illegal/contrary to some written law, including the Constitution/arbitrary/capricious/discriminatory/in breach of natural justice/ultra vires/in breach of one’s legitimate expectations.

Dear Editor, In the response of Finance Minister Winston Jordan to Stabroek News’s February 17 editorial, he asserts that to mitigate the impact of the ‘Brain Tax’ on working class parents struggling to invest in their children’s education, private schools should absorb it as was done by GTT.

Dear Editor, For some time now Assistant Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine has quietly and effectively been performing the duties of Commissioner of Police.

Dear Editor, Dr Clive Thomas has been writing for decades about the phantom/underground/parallel economy in Guyana, He has been enumerating some fantastic numbers such as those penned in Stabroek News of February 16, captioned ‘SARU defends assets recovery bill -says country was bleeding $313 B per annum.’

Dear Editor, Public controversies over the availability of foreign currency in Guyana’s financial system, although infrequent, tend to be unhelpful to market participants and the public in general, since shortages hint at a depreciation of our local currency which, if protracted, generally leads to higher prices for imported goods. 

Dear Editor, During the last elections campaign, one would recall President David Granger was a strong advocate of strengthening and improving the country’s education system, or in other words, his emphasis was more so on the quality of education.

Dear Editor, I am terrified about the future of Guyana with regard to its garbage disposal.

Dear Editor, I’m calling on all my peeps who did not get their Mashramani gear as yet to do so.

Dear Editor, At the end of last year I had pointed out that the Hotelling rule for optimal extraction of a non-renewable resource would suggest that oil companies, had they owned or controlled a resource such as the Liza and Payara wells, would in fact choose not to produce if they expected the net price (ie, its price less extraction costs) of oil to rise in the future, and in particular to rise faster than the interest rate.

Dear Editor, I always strive to maintain a position of objectivity as best as I can. 

Dear Editor, Guyanese and Trinidadians have reported that Federal Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Agents of Homeland Security raided restaurants, stores and other job sites on Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill (dubbed Little Guyana) a few days ago picking up undocumented immigrants.

Dear Editor, As I look at the continuing, somewhat intensifying, parking meter furor some additional thoughts creep forward.

Dear Editor, While the Guyana government is processing applications for the appointment of a Chancellor and Chief Justice, the Caribbean Court of Justice has commented on impartiality and the importance of judicial appointments, and stressed that there must be independence of the judiciary.

Dear Editor, The World Health Organization is monitoring new outbreaks of Avian Influenza (bird flu) among poultry populations in several countries.

Dear Editor, A letter from the Police Public Relations and Press Officer in SN’s issue of February 27 prompted me to visit the Suddie Police Station where it was verified that the telephone numbers for senior ranks in the Region 2 district were on a bulletin board; however, these were not at all clearly visible as was claimed.

Dear Editor , I refer to SARU’s claim that $306 billion was stolen annually under the PPP. 

Dear Editor, Is the government aware that online shopping, promoting and facilitating online shopping are providing a rapid conduit for the suctioning of foreign currency out of the country?