Opinion

Dear Editor, Joining a number of organizations which paid tribute to the life and work of Eusi Kwayana, and on behalf of a number of members of the WPA Executive Committee and party, I made the following brief remarks: “The Working People’s Alliance are proud to have him in our ranks.

Dear Editor, The University of Guyana ‒ both campuses ‒ has done fancy orientations and opening ceremonies for the new semester, and just imagine, their new applicants do not even have their registrations and profiles approved.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Education, Ms Priya Manickchand has said that “the single, most important issue in the country (is) the education of the nation’s children.”

Dear Editor, The idea of big investment in Guyana will, from now on, suffer the expertise of our local experts who will sustain a level of harassment under the pretext of safeguarding the people who pay taxes.

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate Gumendra Shewdas for having been crowned world champion of the 53 kg class in the IPF World Juniors and sub-juniors Men’s Championship recently held in Texas USA.

Since Michael Manley succumbed in the second half of the 1970s, after his experiments in economic and foreign policy radicalism, to the IMF’s insistence that he accept one of their more severe programmes for the recuperation of a depressed Jamaican economy, the country has gone through a number of attempts at trying and retrying those IMF policies to which it had originally objected.

Dear Editor, Mr Carl Greenidge, Ms Amna Ali and I were quoted in a Kaieteur News’ story on the recent CXC results (KN, September 19). 

Dear Editor, I am compelled to respond to a letter appearing in yesterday’s edition of your newspaper (SN, August 26) written by Asquith Rose and Harish S Singh. 

Dear Editor, I was going through the profile of prominent Guyanese and I was amazed to learn that no national honour has been bestowed on 88-year-old Eusi Kwayana, one of the most distinguished and knowledgeable Guyanese, who wrote the lyrics of the party songs of Guyana’s three political parties, the People’s Progressive Party, (PPP) the People’s National Congress, (PNC) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA).

Dear Editor, If the allegations in Christopher Ram’s letter (‘Once Sithe’s licence remains valid the government has no control over the Amaila project site’) of August 25 are true then one has to wonder what the government was doing.

Dear Editor, We recognise that the issue of our community is not the big selling story and that the lives of the residents, seemingly, hang in the balance.

It has been just over a year since the political opposition passed a vote of no confidence in Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee following the shooting to death of three persons during demonstrations at Linden.

Dear Editor, A hot topic has arisen in the Guyanese horse-racing community.

Dear Editor, On Monday August 5, and Saturday August 24, 2013 I saw articles pertaining to the Kara-Kara toll scenario in your newspaper.

Dear Editor, An article in the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday of August 23 stated, “Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday declared the State is at war with criminals, as she announced more than a dozen new initiatives for which consensus had been reached in principle, in talks with the Opposition.”

Dear Editor, Recent events in Guyana suggest that only in this republic can certain things happen.

Dear Editor, We saw the statement from President Donald Ramotar concerning the Amaila Fall Hydro Project and did not know whether to laugh or cry since his arguments for support of this now dead deal are premised on two things: no debt on the taxpayers (untrue – we will only be able to announce this after 20 years have elapsed); and a reduction in the consumer tariff  (although he quite skilfully drifted away from this and replaced it with “the tariff paid by GPL to Sithe for electricity will reduce by 40 per cent” – as different as chalk and cheese).

Dear Editor, The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) has certainly exposed itself in a recent media statement where at a meeting with President Donald Ramotar it called for the appointment of the acting Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Mr Rickford Vieira to be confirmed as Commissioner.