Opinion

Dear Editor, It is a smart move by the incumbent president of the United States of America Mr.

Dear Editor, Everywhere I travelled in recent weeks found people disenchanted with the APNU+AFC coalition.

Friday’s epochal Local Government Elections (LGE) constitute a clear rejuvenation of the local government system even though the domination by the main parties remains a huge impediment.

Dear Editor, Many observers, including the government and the opposition PPP, framed the recent local government elections (LGE) as a referendum on the APNU+AFC coalition’s performance in government.

Local government elections were finally run off on Friday after a wait of nearly nineteen years.

Dear Editor, US$4 million was spent on the spanking new Massy supermarket at Providence and your front page picture of March 18, of suited dignitaries walking through the well-stocked aisles also showcased Guyana’s pervasive illiteracy.

Dear Editor, I am a rice farmer and I do extensive seedling paddy cultivation in the community of Hague Settlement, which is located on the West Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, Mr Alfred Bhulai’s correspondence in Stabroek News on March 18, titled ‘Gecom ad contains errors’, is one of the many examples of the rhetoric articulated around local government elections (LGE).

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan’s letter titled ‘The mayorship is not a mostly ceremonial position’ (SN, March 18).

Dear Editor, It was very nice that several rice farmers from Huis’t Dieren in Region 2, including myself, were consulted at a public forum about the bad state of a koker with a concrete base and wooden walls, sited in a dual purpose trench alongside the school dam in the backlands.

Dear Editor,   I had a most shocking and humiliating experience recently with Mr Dennis Jaikarran, Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Three.

Dear Editor, I was pleased to read a letter by M Alves ‘Why doesn’t Guyana use roundabouts?’

Dear Editor, A friend of mine shared the following extract from a BBC report featuring amazing lessons in governance which are especially noteworthy for poor third world countries like Guyana.

Increasingly, the Age of Information has become the Age of Surveillance.

Dear Editor, Mr Rashleigh Jackson is at his mischief again. He has written before reflecting similar sentiments albeit from different angles.

Dear Editor, I thank Clinton Urling for contributing to the discourse on local government by penning a letter published under the caption, ‘New system needed where Mayor directly elected,’ (SN, March 14).

Dear Editor, The construction projects on the East Bank and East Coast show good foresight, given the projected swell in traffic in the near future.