Opinion

Dear Editor, Referring to earning figures quoted by me in your story captioned ‘Parvatan, GuySuCo silent over disputed sugar workers pay figures’ in the January 5 edition of Stabroek News, it is reported that according to a source “… the figures [CoI] were reflective of wages and salaries including incentives and bonuses which may not be reflected in the pay slips that were presented by GAWU at the press conference.”

Dear Editor, Please refer to the letter which appeared in your issue of January 3 captioned ‘Why was the Pergola omitted from the clean-up?’

Dear Editor, I read the letters by both highly respected citizens, Mr Nigel Hinds and Mr Christopher Ram, and while I agree with the fundamental thrust of what they are saying vis-à-vis the establishment of a functional human rights environment, I find their specific argument in defence of NICIL’s Mr Winston Brassington and the Guyana Revenue Authority’s Mr Khurshid Sattaur contextually flawed, particularly in the direction in which both arguments seem to be heading.

Dear Editor, One of my new tenants has had 3 recent bills.

Dear Editor, I read General Secretary Rohee’s response to my letter which was in itself a response to his public statement that the PPP/C had not been invited to participate in the preparation for, and celebration of, the 50th Jubilee.

Dear Editor, Last year has been a good year for me with my garden, since I started planting three years ago.

Dear Editor, This government’s recent attempt to railroad three bills by toying with the parliamentary standing orders was shameful stuff.

Dear Editor I make reference to your report captioned ‘Parvatan, GuySuCo silent over disputed sugar workers’ pay figures’ carried in your January 5 edition, where it is said that in addition to Mr Parvatan, the Chairman of the CoI and the company’s Finance Director refused to comment on GAWU’s claim that the levels of wages and salaries are “grossly exaggerated” in the CoI report.

Prime Minister Keith Rowley’s address, at the end of last year, to the people of Trinidad & Tobago following his People’s National Movement’s victory at the polls, has laid out the problems, particularly in the economic sphere, confronting the country.

Dear Editor, The new government appears indecisive at times. Some may label it flexible, or maintaining fluidity in its options and lacking the official dogmatism hitherto the order of the day.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Mr Khurshid Sattaur erred gravely when he shared taxpayers’ information with the administration.

Dear Editor,   We in Guyana are on the verge of celebrating our 50th Independence anniversary on May 26, 2016.

Dear Editor, I note with much trepidation the constant and widespread coverage given to my Brother Mark Benschop in his run up to the local government elections (LGE).

Dear Editor,   If incompetence was a valued, traded commodity, the APNU+AFC coalition administration would have been well endowed since it appears to be bountiful with that particular commodity.

Dear Editor,   There should be a poster at the Cheddi Jagan Airport which reads: “Diaspora not wanted in Guyana.”

Dear Editor, In the capacity of a now retired, proud British trained Registered Mental Nurse, and one who has practised in three large Canadian teaching hospitals, kindly permit me to send a few cautionary notes in the direction of the Public Health Minister George Norton.

Dear Editor, In this 50th year of political independence the quest for unity ‒ which is seen in some quarters as being possible when the two major races (African and Indian) share political space ‒ may be possible between the races, but not the nation, if the present posturing is anything to go by.

Dear Editor, GPL continues to be in the news. I believe that the affairs of the corporation will be enhanced by the early appointment of a new Board of Directors.

Dear Editor, Dr David Hinds commented, “President David Granger’s recent plea for patience and suggestion that they have not yet accumulated the evidence needed for prosecution makes some sense.