Opinion

Politikles

Over the past two years this newspaper has been invited to highlight the centenary birth anniversaries of at least ten people; the majority of them being women.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Securities Council observed a misrepresentation of facts in the column under the caption ‘Accountability Watch’ by Anand Goolsarran on pages 8 and 10 of the Monday edition of Stabroek News, dated September 30.

Dear Editor, The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) refutes definitively the claims reported in last Saturday’s (September 28) issue of the Stabroek News where the General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) alleged that the TSC has been denying teachers their just and legal promotions every year by ignoring the agreed criteria for promotions and advancement.

Dear Editor, “Mr Ramkarran reveals that Dr Henry Jeffrey spoke out in private against PNC election rigging,” writes Sultan Mohamed (‘Thought-provoking column,’ SN, October 1).

Dear Editor, I note with amazement a letter signed by the Mr Norman Whittaker, Minister within the Ministry of Local Government, in the Stabroek News of Saturday, September 28, titled, ‘City council’s unwillingness to account for money it receives is a matter of concern to Local Government Ministry.’

Dear Editor, Please allow me to highlight a situation that has recently affected the residents of Anna Catherina, West Coast, Demerara.

Dear Editor, Days before the last general election, I complained to Minister Jennifer Webster at one of the PPP/C bottom-house meetings about the low water pressure at the Uitvlugt Sideline Dam, and she promised to look into the matter immediately.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the Attorney General’s letter, ‘The President has untrammelled freedom to assent to and withhold assent from Bills” (SN, September, 30).

Dear Editor, For six years we have been disturbed with noise, cement dust and vibration from a block-making operation at Blairmont No 2 Settlement, WBB.

Politikles

In a recent editorial entitled, ‘Obama, Syria and a world rearranging itself,’ we suggested in focusing on events in the Middle East, that changes were taking place in countries’ perceptions of each other that were inducing the major powers, and specifically the United States, to relook at their relations to each other.

Dear Editor, The National Democratic Council (NDC) of Better Hope/LBI, if one is allowed to proffer an opinion, must be the most inefficient local government administration in Guyana.

Dear Editor, It would appear that the Marriott  manoeuvre being done by NICIL is to have two thirds of the project equity in the hands of a friend, and then, the moment come, have the friend re-sell a large bloc of those shares for a profit that will end up being distributed out, etc.

Dear Editor, It has been two weeks since the Guyana Prize for Literature has been awarded and, contrary to convention with the Prize, a certificate of achievement has not been issued to the winners. 

Dear Editor It has been reported that President Jammeh of Gambia addressed the UN on September 26 and said that “homosexuality, greed and obsession with world domination are more deadly than all natural disasters put together.”

Dear Editor, I note with utter disgust articles in the Chronicle and elsewhere where the PPP blames the opposition for crime. 

Dear Editor, There are certain things in life that we cannot predict or correctly give a timeline to.

Dear Editor, Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s column which was published in the SN of September 29 and titled ‘Defections from AFC to APNU ominous for PPP/C -Ramkarran’  is very thought provoking.

Dear Editor, The conclusion in the title of Annan Boodram’s letter ‘Neither Indians nor Africans will disengage from traditional electoral support until a force comes along that is better than the PPP and PNC and can demonstrably win elections’ (SN, September 10) is grossly flawed.