Opinion

Dear Editor, The now infamous editorial of the Guyana Chronicle published on July 3 has been the subject of much commentary over the past week.

A week last Friday Mr David Granger, the Leader of the Opposition, gave the inaugural lecture in the National Assembly’s Governance and Democracy series.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Works Robeson Benn has claimed that the design/build tender by the Chinese contractor for the new Timehri Airport was above board, and that the final price was arrived at after serious negotiations between the contractor and himself ably supported by the ministry’s engineers.

Dear Editor, Both SN and KN reported in their July 13 editions that senior police officers were involved in the boat scam. 

Dear Editor, I wish to respectfully submit that the notion that the leadership of APNU, however derived, should not be dissolved into the leadership of the PNCR.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to echo the sentiments of my cousin Nicholas Fraser in his letter titled ‘Swimming coaches should be selected on the basis of established criteria’ which was printed in the Stabroek News dated July 10.

Dear Editor, The grim reports of alleged irregularities in relation to major projects as well as procurement have cost these projects legitimacy with great sections of the populace.

Dear Editor, I read Anthea Spencer’s letter ‘GWI needs to do more to stop the wastage of water’ yesterday in your letters to the editor section, and thought of letting Guyana Water Inc know through this medium that information was given several times to its officials at Melanie on the East Coast of Demerara that there is water wastage from a burst or broken water main on the East Coast, at LBI.

Dear Editor, WPA wishes to record its strong disappointment at Kaieteur News’ report on the picketing exercise held in solidarity with the people of Linden in front of the Office of the President on Thursday July 12, 2012.

Politikles

The somewhat underwhelming return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party  (PRI), with less than 40% of the vote in Mexico’s recent elections, is one measure of the jostling and competitive political culture that has emerged since the party lost its seventy-year lock on government in the 2000 elections.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Chronicle should reprimand the person(s) responsible for the offensive editorial ‘Opposition rampages to sow disunity in the country’ which appeared in that newspaper  on July 2.

Dear Editor, Every nation has its national heroes and founding fathers.

  Dear Editor, Bare Root, a once troubled community located at the back of Bachelor’s Adventure is once again congratulating its children for another splendid performance at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

Dear Editor, The United Nations recently declared that March 20 each year will be the International Day of Happiness – and it wants everyone to join in the fun.

Dear Editor, The Chronicle of July 12 has a letter by Godfrey Skeete insisting that black people are socialised to attack Indians.

Dear Editor, Moses Nagamootoo is either being mischievous or deceptive in his excursion into yet another of his fanciful pieces of folly.

Dear Editor, Guyanese continue to waste water as though it’s sand in a desert, although there are some areas in Guyana which do not have an adequate water supply and some which don’t have any.