Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Like so many Guyanese at home and abroad, I have been paying close attention to and blogging on the outrageous decision to hike the pay for coalition government officials and MPs between 20% and 50% for two reasons: 1) the timing of the decision after just over four months in office, and 2) the coalition’s failure to honour its own campaign promise of 20% increases for public servants.

Dear Editor, When I consider the fact that my landline telephone 4424704 at Linden has been out of service for almost five months, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s new motto of “Do more” sounds ludicrous.

Dear Editor, With regard to the announced salary increases that the government has given itself and MPs, a Nacta opinion poll I conducted last August found objection from some 96% of those asked about it.

Dear Editor, President Granger and his government promised “a better life for all Guyanese.”

Dear Editor, I read with considerable interest, not to mention a similar measure of satisfaction, the approach volunteered by M Maxwell (SN, October 7) for the protection of Guyana from Venezuela’s “sabre-rattling.”

Dear Editor, In a letter carried by the Stabroek News (October 7) Mr Charles Sohan pointed out that cost overruns incurred on government projects can also be attributed to poor project design instead of “poor management of the greedy and corrupt” as stated by Mr Lindon Stephney .

Dear Editor, South Bend is a little town on the north-western border of Indiana, just about a 10 minute drive from Michigan.

Dear Editor, The fact that this government is less than five months old and believes it is their birthright to have their salaries increased so stupendously is truly amazing.

Dear Editor, It must be that APNU+AFC’s foremost and primary interest is the fulfilment of their personal interest.

Dear Editor, My appeal to former president Jagdeo to intervene and prevent someone from breaking my house, throwing it on the road and confiscating my land did not prevent it from happening.

Dear Editor, Seven long years have passed and NIS is still to get my contributions right in order for me to obtain my pension benefits.

Dear Editor, Calls for a boycott of any media are unacceptable unless the boycott is to protest an inequity in coverage of events or some other injustice.

Dear Editor, The Walter Rodney Youth Move-ment wishes to state our dissatisfaction with the method and timing of the increase in the salaries of ministers and the members of parliament.

Dear Editor, As you might recall there was significant media coverage on the passing of my father Elvin McDavid last year, who was one of Guyana’s most distinguished public servants during the time of the post-colonial Burnham era.

Dear Editor, On November 13, 2014, I filed an application with the Child Care and Protection Agency to legally adopt a 16-year-old child, who’s biological father had abandoned her since she was a two-year-old baby.

Dear Editor, Could the President of Guyana, acting in his capacity as the Chancellor of the Orders of Guyana, explain the rationale and give justification to the Guyanese public for selecting Hamilton Green to be the recipient of the second highest national award?

Dear Editor, The revelations that Carifesta X (2008) was estimated to have cost $1 billion, as opposed to the $500 million claimed by former minister of culture Dr Frank Anthony come as no surprise to me considering the studied and perennial reluctance of Dr Anthony to provide answers not only on this issue but several others.

Dear Editor, In an incontrovertible period of economic slowdown in Guyana, the new Granger-led APNU+AFC government’s decision to increase their salaries by over 50% while other public servants got less than 5% has in one fell swoop converted itself from the incompetent to the incompetent and heartless.

Dear Editor, On Monday October 5, I decided to visit the National Communications Network (NCN) at the Cotton Field, Essequibo Coast government compound, since I was told that it was in a deplorable condition.

Dear Editor, The time is over-ripe for the establishment of a Behavioural Science Unit in the Guyana Police Force or to make such a facility available to the police.