Opinion

To say that the recent bombshell news of the arrest, in New York, of former Antigua and Barbuda ambassador to the United Nations and 2013-2014 UN General Assembly president Dr John Ashe, on charges of corruption and tax evasion, is deeply embarrassing to his country and Caricom as a whole would be a gross understatement.

Dear Editor, The Walter Rodney Youth Move-ment wishes to state our dissatisfaction with the method and timing of the increase in the salaries of ministers and the members of parliament.

Dear Editor, As you might recall there was significant media coverage on the passing of my father Elvin McDavid last year, who was one of Guyana’s most distinguished public servants during the time of the post-colonial Burnham era.

Dear Editor, On November 13, 2014, I filed an application with the Child Care and Protection Agency to legally adopt a 16-year-old child, who’s biological father had abandoned her since she was a two-year-old baby.

Dear Editor, Could the President of Guyana, acting in his capacity as the Chancellor of the Orders of Guyana, explain the rationale and give justification to the Guyanese public for selecting Hamilton Green to be the recipient of the second highest national award?

Dear Editor, The revelations that Carifesta X (2008) was estimated to have cost $1 billion, as opposed to the $500 million claimed by former minister of culture Dr Frank Anthony come as no surprise to me considering the studied and perennial reluctance of Dr Anthony to provide answers not only on this issue but several others.

Dear Editor, In an incontrovertible period of economic slowdown in Guyana, the new Granger-led APNU+AFC government’s decision to increase their salaries by over 50% while other public servants got less than 5% has in one fell swoop converted itself from the incompetent to the incompetent and heartless.

Dear Editor, On Monday October 5, I decided to visit the National Communications Network (NCN) at the Cotton Field, Essequibo Coast government compound, since I was told that it was in a deplorable condition.

If you work in an office where the number of women employed is at least 12, then according to the most recent statistics for the region, four of them would have been or will be raped, beaten, coerced into sex, verbally, mentally or emotionally abused.

Dear Editor, The time is over-ripe for the establishment of a Behavioural Science Unit in the Guyana Police Force or to make such a facility available to the police.

Dear Editor, Earlier yesterday (October 6), seven individuals, some in the uniform of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), visited residents in Uitvlugt on the West Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, It was with deep regret I received the saddest news that Dr Mangal has left us.

Dear Editor, Besides being filled with utter rage, abhorrence and disgust on reading of the midnight intruder who sneaked into the Georgetown Public Hospital to molest an in-patient teenager (Kaieteur News, October 5), I am also questioning what sort of security is offered those during a vulnerable period in their lives?

Dear Editor, What has been grating on me is that amidst the obvious and welcome outpourings of patriotism on the Venezuela issue, the political partisanship, cavalier misinformation, flying fast and loose with facts and truth avoidance are still rampant in the analyses.

Dear Editor, Charles Sohan in his SN letter of September 29 seeks to challenge Minister Harmon’s statement on the problem of construction cost of the Kato Primary School Region 8, which contract was originally awarded to the contractor in 2013 for $780M but which has already cost approximately $1B with no end in sight.

Dear Editor, In response to my letter which appeared in Stabroek News on Sept 29 regarding cost overruns at the Kato Primary School (KPS) being constructed in the Potaro-Siparuni Region, Lindon Stephney apparently Minister of State Joseph Harmon’s spokesman has stated elsewhere [see also letter above] that he was of the opinion that these were not due “to poor design but poor management of the greedy and corrupt.”

Dear Editor, I learnt that the DEA plans to establish a permanent office here soon.