Opinion

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.

Dear Editor, The media have an important role to play in raising awareness about domestic violence and domestic violence prevention.

Dear Editor, Yesterday morning, Sunday April 22nd, I arrived on Caribbean Airlines Flight 662 at Piarco International, Trinidad and Tobago as an in transit passenger.

Dear Editor, The Berbice Bridge was considered one of the trump cards for the populace of Berbice and the country as a whole.

Dear Editor, There is an endless stream of individuals who pontificate in the letter columns and some in their own columns and in the blogosphere on the plight of the poor in Guyana, especially the plight of the Afro-Guyanese who have been subjected to second class citizenship in their own land.

Dear Editor, Now they have their minions yapping at Moses Nagamootoo’s feet simply because he expressed a truism that is practiced throughout Guyana and literally the rest of the world – that everyone speaks sternly to their children and grandchildren from time to time. 

No matter how it is parsed or spun, APNU’s deal-making last week with the PPP/C government will be seen as a continuation of the historic engagement of the duopoly that has bestridden the political landscape for the last 55 years or so and which has left the country wallowing in the backwaters of development and deeply divided.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Given the new dispensation for the governance of cricket in Guyana – albeit temporarily until a new constitution is tabled – women should be included in the new administration of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

Dear Editor, This letter is a commentary on three national issues, namely:- i)    The appointment of the Solicitor-General ii)   Tenure of office of members of the Guyana Elections Commission and iii)  Designation of the minister responsible for Tourism.

Dear Editor, The Mayor and City Council have expressed serious concerns over certain statements reported in the Stabroek News issue of April 20, 2012, under the heading, ‘Guyana posed contradiction at tourism conference: Garbage and pristine forests.’

Dear Editor, Another Nadirism needs to be excised from the body of misinformation regarding pension benefits alluded to in an earlier publication.