Opinion

Things change

Dear Editor, It is good income tax relief is being given to twenty-one thousand employees, mostly those earning in excess of the public sector minimum salary, but what about those employees already exempted from income tax by virtue of their depressed wages, such as security guards, domestics, waitresses, shop assistants, pump attendants et al, who barely earn enough to cope with the continuous increase in the cost of living. 

Dear Editor, I see dark clouds gathering and hovering like the insidious dust over the town for an impending storm – God forbid – as once again residents are getting the creeps with the chorus of an electricity increase being sung by government officials.

Dear Editor, I had decided not to say anything public about the appalling, though not surprising, politics of the APNU and the AFC over the last few days.

Dear Editor, On Sunday, April 22 at approximately 23:00 hrs, I observed a very disturbing and disgusting sight.

Dear Editor, With respect to the Industry main road between Greater Georgetown and the East Coast which was recently thinly resurfaced with bitumen, though I am grateful for the slight improvement, I am peeved that it was not done to the full satisfaction of the several thousand local residents, taxpayers, pedestrians and drivers who use it at all hours of the day and night.

Dear Editor, The media has fired quite a few salvos at Clement Rohee for his “kicking ass” expression regarding members of the Guyana Police Force.

The first round of French presidential elections has been disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, for President Nicolas Sarkozy and his party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).

Garbage

Dear Editor, Your editorial of April 23 and the news of the unhappiness of ‘Operation Rescue UG’ at the lack of progress reminds me very much of a stage in (West) German history during my lifetime.

Dear Editor, I think AFC leader Mr Khemraj Ramjattan owes the PPP regime an apology.

Dear Editor, KN’s April 23 headline ‘2012 Budget to be approved with no cuts’ has to be wrong.

Dear Editor, The recent discussions coming from the political leadership on matters such as the budget, national interest, rights and the rule of law are interesting in that they offer insights into their thinking, and the implications of said thoughts in informing their decisions which will ultimately impact our collective wellbeing.

Dear Editor, All development is based on production and growth, that is, the gathering and application of resources to make things for people to use. 

Dear Editor, If you wish to retain the readership of the older generation — even those who only skim – you need to publish in proper English.

Dear Editor, The Trinidad & Tobago-based consulting group continues, unfortunately, to befuddle Guyanese readers of Stabroek Business (‘Performance management practices: It’s not an HR “thing,”‘ April 20) with their one-size-fits-all generic solutions to practical management issues that must be contextualized, lest we do more harm than good by any such generalized, text-book approach.

Dear Editor, The suggestion of Dr Clive Thomas in his Sunday Stabroek article of April 22, titled ‘Beyond the Budget noise‘ for a National Assembly Budget Office (NABO) is ridiculous, unnecessary, non-productive and makes no practical or economic sense.  It

Minister Ali

On February 16, during the debate in the National Assembly on supplementary  budget allocations, Finance Minister Ashni Singh declared that the government had found itself “in completely uncharted territory,” a reference to the delayed approval of supplementary budget financing based on opposition queries relating to the legality of some of the spending.

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News of Saturday 21/04/2012 carried an article titled `Mayor and City Council to build modern crematorium’ – this, it states, is according to the purported Chairman of the Markets and Public Health Committees, Mr Ranwell Jordan.