Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,  The city parking meters galvanised the people of Georgetown.

Dear Editor, In discussing Guyana’s nightmare oil deal last week, Winston Jordan predicted that Guyana will get “two hundred and something million” US dollars in 2020.

Dear Editor, Driving on the East Bank of Demerara can be a very risky and expensive activity.

Dear Editor, Now that the annual CSEC and CAPE results are public, and official and personal celebrations fill the atmosphere, I take yet another peek into what lifts and lets down.

Dear Editor, It is nice to see the upgrades that have been done to the CJIA airport.

Dear Editor, Guyana needs a multipronged job creation strategy to lower the unemployment rate.

Dear Editor, Citizens have begun to experience the impact of the Smart City System component of the Chinese funded National Broadband project; drive down any of the side-streets in villages on the East Coast Demerara (Liliendaal to Success) and chances are you will encounter vigilant policemen and women seeking to engage you away from the eyes of cameras monitored in the National Database Centre.

Dear Editor, Paddy bugs have led to the loss of almost 20 per cent of the rice crop in Region Six so far this year.

Dear Editor, It has become standard practice for persons to be recruited into the Guyana Public Service by means of contract.

Dear Editor, Finance Minister Winston Jordan has finally admitted that the ‘interim’ status of the administration is impacting adversely on the investment climate in the country.

Dear Editor, It has been a while since the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph landlines at the Aurora Police Station have been working.

Dear Editor, As a resident of the new Housing Scheme, Plantation Herstelling on the East Bank of Demerara, I would like to highlight the abandonment of the infrastructural development of this community which was commissioned under the PPP/C government.

Dear Editor, My son (and other children) came away from Wednesday’s Science for Energy Workshop for children held at UG’s Turkeyen Campus with some useful information, but also with cheap plastic bottles with “Hallibur-ton” cheaply slapped onto them. 

Dear Editor, In recent days the US interest rates have produced an inverted yield curve, which is a sign of slowing economic activity in the US economy and may possibly trigger a recession.

Dear Editor, The African Business Roundtable (ABR) supports the idea of having the income tax structure of the country adjusted in a phased approach over the next five years. 

Dear Editor, I wish to endorse the sentiments expressed by letter writer, and Republic Bank customer, Arthur Taylor in your August 15 edition titled `Republic Bank should review decision made to disallow loan repayments being made upstairs’. 

Dear Editor, Speaking at the Buxton First of August Movement’s Annual Eusi Kwayana Emancipation Symposium on Sunday 11th August, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge is reported to have “urged that the citizenry focus on their role in the oversight of spending of expected revenues” instead of issues such as the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between the government and ExxonMobil and its partners.

Dear Editor, I would like to bring attention to the deplorable condition of the access road for the Ya-Ya pontoon crossing at the Essequibo River.

Dear Editor, A fairly intelligent person, I am annually completely bewildered by the release of the CXC results  by the Ministry of Education.

Dear Editor, Please permit me the opportunity to address an important issue related to the City‘s building regulations.