Opinion

Dear Editor, I am somewhat amazed and perturbed by the manner in which the government and opposition of this land deal with important issues.

Late last week, eight research grants were awarded to teams of academic staff at the University of Guyana.

Dear Editor, It seems as if Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is a no nonsense Prime Minister, and President Donald Ramotar should take a page out of her book and deal with his ministers when they slip up and do not live up to the high office of a minister of government.

Dear Editor, While one would expect that the PPP government, faced with flagging popularity in even its core support demographics, would try to propose a budget geared more towards surface citizen appeasement than actual economic practicality, no one could have predicted that it would be at the level of fluff as was the 2014 budget as presented by Minister of Finance Ashni Singh on Monday.

Dear Editor, Referring to recent reports of an ethanol plant proposed for Guyana, I would like to draw the attention of the public and government officials to facts about ethanol in petrol engines.

Dear Editor, On February 13, 2014 a Guyanese, of very humble upbringing, was brutally murdered while at work as a guard at a nursery school in East Canje.

Dear Editor, Has this condition arisen from a dereliction of duty or an abrogation of responsibility?

Dear Editor, I bought an outdoor stove for picnic purposes and tried getting a ten-pound gas cylinder to go with it.

Dear Editor, It’s refreshing to read the editorial ‘A tasteless manifestation of the way we live’ (Stabroek News, March 25), about the plight that commuters have to face every day using public transportation.

Dear Editor, I was not really surprised while listening to one of the hosts of NCN’s ‘Guyana Today’ during this past week.

Dear Editor, So the 2014 budget caters for the cleaning up of the country.

Dear Editor, History does repeat itself. The Stabroek News of March 5 carried the story of 26-year-old Trinidadian “hero” Nicholas Seucharan who died after rescuing two children 11 and 8 years old from drowning.

Dear Editor, A deceased Berbician has done us proud in Trinidad and deserves kudos for his humanitarian insight.

Late last week, eight research grants were awarded to teams of academic staff at the University of Guyana.

Dear Editor, I read with disgust the utterances by the Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green during an interview when he criticized the approval of monies to clean up the huge piles of garbage around the city. 

Dear Editor, Our first response to the call by the ruling PPP published in the Stabroek News of Saturday March 22 (‘The PPP calls on PNC, WPA to cooperate with Rodney Inquiry’) is to appeal for sanity, reason and fairness.

Dear Editor, “You give but little when you give of your possessions.