Opinion

Dear Editor, Time and time again, the APNU+AFC government has been accused of giving with one hand, while taking much more with the other.

Dear Editor, During the period 2007 to the end of 2011 the management of drugs and supplies saw real and credible success and it was because we had the systems and leadership focus that were geared towards improving the supply and delivery of medicines and supplies to all ten regions in Guyana.

Dear Editor, The print media is perhaps the layman’s avenue to express the concerns which bureaucracy refuses to address and I want to thank you for carrying most of my contributions and I express my best 2017 wishes to you and your staff.

Dear Editor, I am back in time through a look at those reminiscences of SN from three decades ago, and it is shattering that so little has changed in terms of direction and thinking; that the space travelled, if any, could be measured in millimeters. 

With his election as General Secretary (GS) of the PPP on Saturday, Bharrat Jagdeo has now been formally installed as both the PPP and parliamentary opposition supremo.

Dear Editor, Some weeks ago, I came upon an article that was published on Demerara Waves Online News on December 16, 2016.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News of Friday January 6, 2017, reported that two parliamentary representatives of the PPP/C criticised but abstained from voting on an amendment to the Value-Added Tax giving the Commissioner General the right to prevent persons, through the Chief Immigration Officer, from leaving the country once they owed VAT.

Dear Editor, The junction at Vlissingen and the Kitty Public Road is the main artery through which East Coast residents access Georgetown daily for work and school.

Dear Editor, In the space of a short 24-hour span, I had cause to make acquaintance with government inflicted pain and private harm. 

Dear Editor, The Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, would like to use the national media to urge the Guyana Cricket Board to review the way the Inter-League three-day, 50 overs and 20/20 tournaments are being organised.

Dear Editor, “When I was young and went to school, they taught me how to write…” They also taught me and my friends that if we must ride our bicycles at night, then it was necessary to have a headlight and a rear light affixed to the bicycle.

The revocation of the lease for the Red House and the events which followed that, have caused a bruising of ethnic sensitivities when the issue, while a little delicate, perhaps, could have been dealt with far more rationally and with minimal repercussions.

Dear Editor, The freedom to enter and leave Guyana is guaranteed to every person as a fundamental right and freedom by the supreme law of the land, the Constitution.

Dear Editor, Seeing the front page of the Stabroek News on December 31, 2016, showing the vigil exercise by members of the PPP outside the Red House, and then reading in your paper as to why this exercise was taking place, disheartened me and many other readers as well.

Dear Editor, The Red House debate rages on as an ethnic issue when it is about a ‘stolen’ state asset.

Dear Editor, Now that Red House is on the front burner, let me say I do agree with Dr Joey Jagan, whose views on the subject were reported by iNEWS on January 5.

Dear Editor, The legal profession in Guyana has been in the news for the past week after President David Granger announced the names of nine persons including a sitting High Court Judge and three women to be members of the inner bar.

Dear Editor, When applying for a visitor’s visa to Canada one has to satisfy the Canadian Immigration Officers that one: (a) can afford the trip (b) has proper facilities to make one’s stay comfortable (c) has attachments here that would ensure one’s return to Guyana ‒ this is the main requirement.