Opinion

Dear Editor, Residents living on the Upper Corentyne are suffering more under the PPP/C than under the 28 years of PNC rule.

Dear Editor, Last Saturday at the UG’s Convocation exercise a young lady, Ms Kumarie Kooseram, received the award for the best Graduating Student in the UG Medical School.

Dear Editor, I must write to express my thoughts on what I perceive to be a very poorly planned Diwali Motorcade in the East Canje/New Amsterdam/East Bank Berbice area on Sunday evening.

Dear Editor, There is appreciation for the chief as an individual, as there is potential for decency and the development of independent thought processes. 

Dear Editor, The world commemorates November 11 as Remembrance Day. But what a way the students of Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) chose to mark this day!

After the bodies of Police Constables Letlow and Aaron had been found at Kato in October rumours began to circulate to the effect that their deaths might have been reprisal killings associated with robberies that had been committed against miners operating in the area.

Dear Editor, Your analysis in the editorial, ‘Impasse’ is timely and spot on.

Politikles

Dear Editor, The political challenge faced by Guyana today remains the same as it was under the unmodified Westminster system (post-independence).

Dear Editor, I kept silent while the EZjet story unfolded on one wing and some questionable representations. 

Dear Editor, Very briefly the sugar industry’s current governance structure constitutes of a board, with chairman; a chief executive officer; an executive management team, of which general managers of estates should be members.

Dear Editor,  It seems that there is gridlock in Guyana because of the lack of co-operation between the government and the combined opposition forces since government proposed Bills cannot be passed if they are blocked by the combined opposition and successful opposition Bills cannot become law because the President can refuse to give his assent.

Dear Editor, The media (TV, print, audio, etc) took centre stage with the coverage of the US presidential elections, prior to, during and after the outcome.

It is indisputable that PPP/C governments, the Jagdeo administration in particular, developed the reputation for attracting investors who never intended to succeed at the investment they undertook, were not fit and proper or didn’t have the wherewithal and therefore failed miserably.

Dear Editor, Whenever there is an increase in traffic fines, the traffic cops reap the benefit: no one likes to be asked to “drive to the station” for simple human infractions such as driving two points over the speed limit, driving over an already dead animal on the road, reversing on the road from a residential gap even though it is safe to do so, driving through an amber light  when it came on about a second ago, etc.

Sunday’s Cartoon

There seems little doubt that in less anomalous jurisdictions convention would have required Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee to resign, but stony soil blights Guyana’s political landscape, and no such convention has ever taken root here.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force wishes to respond to an article published in the Stabroek News on Wednesday October 17, 2012, under the caption ‘Granger: Police have killed 288 in 17 years‘ in which leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Brigadier David Granger condemned the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Guyana Police for the deaths of over 288 persons in the past 17 years. 

Dear Editor, Over the last three months I’ve listened with outrage to the condemnation by PPP/C spokespersons of Lindeners blocking the Wismar/MacKenzie bridge on July 18. 

Dear Editor, I wish to recount a major incident which aroused my pet peeve while I conducted a transaction at a city bank on November 7, 2012.