Opinion

Politikles

Dear Editor, As the Zika epidemic is spreading explosively around the world, and city officials particularly in towns and cities in the Americas have been implementing all sorts of methods to control it, including traditional mosquito control techniques such as spraying pesticides and emptying standing water receptacles where mosquitoes breed, etc.

Dear Editor, Bartica will officially become a town on April 23, and it is imperative that we take a look in our rearview mirror to see how far we have come as a village, what some of our major challenges and successes were, and what best practices we can emulate as we forge a brighter future.

Dear Editor, President David Granger seems to be finding himself in some very precarious positions as he seeks to unite this divided country.

Dear Editor, In an interview with the Guyana Times on Monday, January 25, Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine had indicated that most aspects of the Central Counselling Body had been finalized and all was to be implemented within 10 days.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Under-19 West Indies team, whose victory is all the sweeter for me because it was at the expense of the biggest of the so-called Big Three, who have hijacked the game to which the West Indies contributed more high quality cricketers in the second half of the twentieth century than any other country.

Dear Editor, I make reference to an article captioned ‘Wales workers needed timelier info on estate closure, PM admits’ that was carried in your February 13 edition.

Dear Editor, First of all I want to congratulate the leaders of the Alliance for Change (AFC) who had the wisdom and foresight to broker the Cummingsburg Accord which is still going strong with APNU+AFC.

Dear Editor, The race for the White House is heating up and already there are indications that the front runners from both sides of the political divide are getting, as it were, a run for their money.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Over the last several days, greater New York area has been facing life-threatening freezing conditions approaching record low temperatures after a relatively warm Fall/Winter through the end of December.

A brief media release issued by the Office of the Presidency last Wednesday alluded to a meeting on the same day between President David Granger and University of Guyana Chancellor Professor Nigel Harris.

Dear Editor, I am grateful that the Minister of Finance found time in his closing address of the Budget debates of  2016 to focus on my presentation in those debates.

Dear Editor, The support given on any issue to a group or individual, government or non-governmental, is premised on upholding and respecting laws, international conventions, charters, time-honoured principles and the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens/workers.

Dear Editor, President Granger has laid out a clear vision of our nation’s future, one where our motto of One People, One Nation, One Destiny can truly apply; a nation of law-abiding people with an equitable system of justice, and a clean, orderly society with opportunities for a good life for all.

Dear Editor, One wonders what explanation there must be for the powers that be at the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) of LBI/Better Hope on the East Coast of Demerara to neglect the cleaning and clearing of the overgrown bushes, tall grass and accumulated silt that have blocked the drains and canals of the villages from LBI to Better Hope on the East Coast of Demerara?

Dear Editor, The 2016 national budget speech argues that this budget seeks to address inequalities and discrimination with a heavy emphasis on increased taxes/licences and tax collection, especially from the persons who are categorised as “self-employed”.

Dear Editor, This is in reference to the article captioned, `Nagamootoo says suffered major disqualifications’ (SN Feb 10), which said that while in the PPP he suffered these disqualifications because he is/was “not Hindu” and he was/is “not a communist ideologue or Soviet educated Marxist/Leninist”.

Dear Editor Like many Guyanese, at home and abroad, I was elated at the outcome of the May 2015 elections.

Dear Editor, A wide range of matters is carded for discussion when Caricom heads of government meet tomorrow and Wednesday at the 27th Intersessional meeting in Belize, ranging from the Zika threat, climate change, banking, financial services, CSME, and other areas.