Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It’s wholly disconcerting that the 20% promised to public servants across the board has not materialized; instead they’ve been relegated to a measly 5% which is really a slap in the face of dedicated hard-working career public servants.

Dear Editor, The not-so-new government (any more) appears intent on marooning itself in precarious waters.

Dear Editor, I am appalled at the orchestrated outrage being vented against the Granger administration over the announced 50% pay increase for ministers.

Dear Editor, The recent announcement about a 50% increase in salaries for Ministers of the APNU-AFC government has been received with outrage and criticism by many quarters in Guyana.

Dear Editor, The election of the APNU+AFC coalition government has generated a surge of expectations, particularly among the education community that the long neglect of tertiary education, training and research was over.

Dear Editor, Reading recently about an exceptional performance by Xavier Marshall in a fete match in New York, got me thinking about Marshall himself, Garrick, Barath, Kieron Powell, Pagon, Jerome Taylor and other talented cricketers who have apparently either left the game or almost left, and the reasons for their departure.

Dear Editor, I’m of Indigenous background and a former Toshao. I have no bone to pick with anyone from any political party.

Dear Editor, That fifty per cent pay increase is bad. It smells bad, it tastes terrible, and it does not go down easily.

Dear Editor, It was a very emotional experience on Monday, October 5, to share the 58th Anniversary of the founding of People National Congress at Sophia.

Dear Editor, These words are taken from the song, ‘I dream a dream.’

Dear Editor, In a SN letter of Oct. 4, Mr. Oditt, a former Chairman of GuySuCo opined that recent letters and statements in the press had inferred a doomed fate for the Corporation and therefore he felt obliged to participate in a Moray House Trust Seminar on the sugar industry to present participants with several of his view points which if implemented could enable it to return to profitability.

Dear Editor, As we craft a new course for Guyana for the next fifty years, it will become necessary for us to develop a more in-depth understanding of how our society is configured and how it functions.

Dear Editor, The recent move by the government to increase ministers’ salaries by exorbitant amounts (50%) has sparked much debate and has caused disheartenment among the populace.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Prime Minister will earn $20,580,000 or US $102,900 per annum.

Dear Editor, Now that Ministers have increased their salaries will they now be in a position to pay their electricity bills?

Dear Editor, Those of us who reflect on the past while contemplating current institutional behaviour, cannot help noting the substantive difference in some employment procedures, moreso in the public sector which is obviously more exposed than the private sector counterpart.

Dear Editor, At a recent seminar about the sugar industry at Moray House Trust (MHT), four quite different perspectives were presented by a historian, an economist, an industry expert and a former chairman of GuySuCo.

Dear Editor, The fake ‘furore’ over pay increases to senior executives of the state is sure to be bled for its full propaganda by the opposition, the cynics, and those imbued with a certain culture that left many high functionaries of the old PNC government in modest circumstances at the end of their time in power.

Dear Editor, Your letter contributor (‘Why did NIS announce insurable income ceiling increase in Mirror’ SN, October 6) raises at least three critical concerns.

Dear Editor, I want to express how deeply hurt we were, I and my many, many colleague ministers, of the twenty-three years of PPP/C in office, by those words of Mr Joseph Harmon – “you cannot have a situation like the PPP where they [the ministers] were accepting low salaries because they were thiefing money all over the place.”