Opinion

Dear Editor, While the budget cuts attract public attention and in large measure approbation, something more serious, more cynical is taking place and there is no mass protest as such.

Dear Editor When oil prices are rising on the international market due to the economic expansion of China, India and Africa, any government which seeks to cushion this effect by subsidising electricity and transportation fuel (subsidising energy) would end up bankrupting their country.

Dear Editor, The year 2012 has so far turned out to be rather ominous as a result of (a) the Greene Affair and (b) the 2012 Budget, and all that it entails.

Politikles

Returning from attendance at the Summit of the Americas in Colombia where she focused on getting support for her country’s claim to the Falklands, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner turned her attention to another issue destined to attract headlines in the international press.

Dear Editor, I refer to the statement in your editorial of April 30 in connection with the withdrawal of advertisements from the Stabroek News in 2006 in which you said that: “This was a trifling matter for all in the PPP and its government except for the late, former President, Mrs Janet Jagan who called clearly for an end to the advertising boycott to no avail.”

Dear Editor, My dear late friend, Dr Desrey Fox, used to say all the time that despite returning to Guyana with Master’s and PhD degrees and rising to the office of Junior Minister within the Ministry of Education, she still felt that there was some level of prejudice against Amerindians in Guyana.

Dear Editor, In reference to an April 6 letter in the Kaieteur News, it is not my desire to become embroiled in any politically charged discussions with any of our taxpayers, lest because I do not share their point of view they make the unpardonable mistake of accusing me, as Ms Lurlene Nestor has done, of being partisan and worse, of suffering memory loss.

Dear Editor, If you have not been around long enough or have not studied Guyana’s political history, you may be tempted to misinterpret the noise coming from the ruling PPP in the wake of the budget cuts made by the combined opposition as genuine hurt.

Dear Editor, We were fortunate enough to have access to both the videos of Granger v Ramotar, and upon reflection we must commend Mr Granger for still reaching out after being one of the targets of a fine presidential ‘cuss down.‘ 

Shortly before the start of the recently concluded 13th Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Development Conference the Government Information Agency (GINA) issued a media release in which it announced that government was partnering with the private sector to ‘spruce up’ the city so that our visitors could experience a more wholesome capital than that which those of us who live here must live with, day in, day out.

Dear Editor, Martin Luther King Jr, the martyred African American civil rights leader, espoused a fundamental principle that must serve to guide the actions and reactions of citizens of Guyana who seek to usher into our nation’s experience, real democracy, measurable equity and transparency in the distribution of our collective resources, and an end to the dystopian direction in which our nation is currently being driven.

Dear Editor, I prefer to impute no motives to Government spokespersons or self-appointed, self-interested critics of the Budget “cuts”, including Drs.

Dear Editor, Shivnarine Chanderpaul has reached the 10,000 Test runs milestone, a signal achievement for any cricketer, for West Indies, for Guyana, for himself.

Dear Editor, As we observe World Occupational Health and Safety Day would the authorities have a focused look at the conditions that obtain on the construction site located at the corner of Sheriff and Garnett Streets?

Dear Editor, It was amusing to read the President of Guyana using some very strong words to describe the parliamentary opposition in his address to the nation on Friday night, and I wondered why he didn’t use that vocabulary to describe the minibus operators who rob barefacedly every day.

Dear Editor, Being a public servant, whether it be a minister, police officer, judge, magistrate, president, prime minister, military officer or just an ordinary clerk, is a position with much honour.

Dear Editor,I ask my sisters and brothers who voted for the AFC: Is this what they voted for?

Dear Editor, In a scene which can only be called Jagdeoesque, President Donald Ramotar addressed the nation on Friday night and inflamed rather than calmed passions.