Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Henry Jeffrey’s piece ‘About the PPP’ in his ‘Future notes’ of Wednesday, February 1, makes interesting reading.

Dear Editor, Some of my concerns regarding the parking meter contract are: Can the overseas based SCS or the city council raise the rates when he/she so desires?

Dear Editor, We read in the Stabroek News that “Fresh from its recent discovery of oil at the Payara well site, US firm ExxonMobil is preparing to begin drilling at a new site in the Stabroek Block offshore of Demerara.”

Dear Editor, The Guyana Prize for Literature 2016 Awards brochure which was published in the Guyana Chronicle on January 8 has many flaws that need correction and clarification.

Dear Editor, A sad, horrible and traumatic chapter in our country’s tattered history of public safety and security has been brought to an end by the Court.

Dear Editor, The Berbice Bar Association condemns in the strongest possible terms the unwarranted and unjustifiable attack by the Attorney General and the Guyana Chronicle on the Chancellor and the judiciary.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Chronicle of February 2, reported that Minister of Finance Winston Jordan informed the Cabinet about the “disequilibrium in the foreign exchange market” and offered as a policy response, more regulations and guidelines to ensure that “exporters repatriate their export earnings to the banking system”. 

Dear Editor, I have never been a fan of City Hall, but it has to stay the course on this parking meter affair. 

Dear Editor, It was reported in the news media on February 2nd, that Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman had arranged for Jeff Simons, country manager for ExxonMobil development of its oil & gas sectors to address Ministers, Heads of Departments and others regarding production preparation and the methodology which will be deployed to produce oil by Year 2020 from the recently discovered Liza field off Guyana’s northern coast.

Dear Editor, A source of much controversy are the parking meters.

Dear Editor, Loris Nathoo’s letter was as refreshing as it was thought provoking (‘Smart City Solutions should amend their pricing structure’ SN, Feb 4).

Dear Editor, For the past 6 months and as recently as last month I made several complaints to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) clerk here at Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast, that my internet is very slow and that the telephone is not working.

Dear Editor, Indian Diaspora Council International (USA) and partners in Guyana and Trinidad will host a global convention in Trinidad from March 17 to 20 at various sites on that island to commemorate the centenary of the end of girmitya (indentured) labour from India.

Dear Editor, Hydar Ally, in a letter in SN dated January 25, captioned ‘No confusion about PPP’s ideological orientation’  tried to convince readers that the PPP post-Jagan continued to practise the principles of Marxism Leninism.

Dear Editor, We human beings can only recognise whatever bad qualities we purport to see in others because some of those same negative qualities are within ourselves, simply because of this common human nature. 

  Dear Editor, The significance of the parking meters’ protest is the rise of civil society. 

Dear Editor, On February 3, 2017 an allegedly People Progressive Party (PPP) sponsored protest was held on the northern side of City Hall, Regent Street, Lacytown. 

Dear Editor, City parking and parking meters is a hot topic these days, and the atmosphere of hostility which surrounds this issue is very common whenever the system is challenged.

Dear Editor, On Feb 3, 2017 President Trump signed the executive order ‘Core Principles for Regulating the United States’ Financial System,’ which is his way of ‘doing a big number’ on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the 2010 legislation that followed the 2008 financial crisis and ‘great recession.’ 

Dear Editor, I was originally only going to focus this letter on the alternative facts spread by Bharrat Jagdeo’s picayune ‘media empire’ (iNews/TVG/Radio Guyana/MTV) regarding the riveting fantasy of my fugitive run from the long arms of the law for a deliberately and clearly ironic Facebook status on the parking meter issue and what I believe to its parallel and its vast superior in scale, the Sanata complex deal, but events of the past few days warrant commentary.