Opinion

Dear Editor, It is long past the time for Guyana to establish an independent Broadcast Authority to monitor and regulate all radio and television broadcasts emanating from Guyana.

Dear Editor, In Guyana non-functioning brake lights on cars are a traffic violation which is a statutory (ticketed) offence with a fine of $5,000.

Dear Editor, With regard to your several news items (SN, Apr 27, 28) on Trinidad’s announced plan to replace the Privy Council with the CCJ for criminal matters, there are mixed views from the country’s legal luminaries and intellectuals and widespread opposition from the common man to such a move. 

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“Lions led by donkeys” was the pithy assessment of the tragedy of the hundreds of thousands of British Empire troops sent to their slaughter by incompetent generals on the Western Front in World War I (1914-1918).

Dear Editor, I find the earlier pronouncements of Drs Roger Luncheon and Ashni Singh and now Mr Winston Brassington that National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) is a private company with the legal right to withhold public moneys annoying, self-serving, misinformed and mischievous.

Dear Editor, The Constitution of Guyana contains the following provision in Article 149.

Dear Editor, There is something awry with regard to the recent social efforts of certain Hindu organizations in Guyana.

Dear Editor, On April 30, 2012, I arrived home around midnight from my second job.

Dear Editor, I agree with GRA Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur (SN, May 1) that he has done a good job in improving the public administration of taxes.

Dear Editor, As I browsed your columnist Henry Jeffrey’s article ‘Unwillingness to negotiate is a fatal flaw‘ (April 25)” my eyes caught the line, “The Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund (SILWF), created in 1947 to provide subsidized services for sugar workers, survived the Burnham regime and is still very much alive.

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Just over a week ago, four girls all below the age of 18, and two under the age of 16, were rescued from a gold mining location in the interior, where it was reported they were being forced into prostitution.

Dear Editor, I wish to draw attention to the age factor in employment relationships.

Dear Editor, The sole utility of GINA and the NCN will, in the end, be archival.

Dear Editor, One is not surprised at the Stabroek News’ editorial captioned: ‘The GINA and NCN subventions’ and its vengeful rantings, as a response to the opposition motion that dictated deep budgetary cuts totalling some $22B to the overall estimates for 2012. 

Dear Editor, The government-owned Guyana Chronicle carried one article and one letter on April 30, 2012 criticising Amerindian members of the National Assembly who voted to reduce those components of the appropriations bill which linked to former President Jagdeo’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). 

Dear Editor, Since it was a holiday (May Day) I was relaxing at home, and flicking through the Stabroek News I came across some interesting items.

Dear Editor, While the PPP/C is continuing to argue for proportionality in the seats on the parliamentary committees, during the life of the last Region 6 RDC (2006-11) they were not practising what they are now preaching.