Opinion

Many troubling questions remain over the Amaila project

Dear Editor, Your Sunday Stabroek article of September 25 (‘Modification costs might help reduce overall cost of Amaila project’), continues to highlight many troubling questions regarding the design, specification, payments and funding for the proposed Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHEP) with claims without substantiation that design enhancement will reduce overall project costs. 

Poor English

Dear Editor, The National Communications Net-work (NCN) in Berbice while airing a ‘Bedtime Song’ was incredibly repeatedly using the word ‘hold’ instead of ‘whole’ to describe a variety of items or stocks by distributors for sale.

A bread and butter issue

In a report published in this newspaper yesterday about the lack of a cook at the Port Kaituma Secondary School, which is a boarding school, we quoted a single parent as saying that she might be forced to remove her 13-year-old daughter from the school if the situation continued, though she did not want to do so because the child was the first of her five children to attend secondary school.

Rodney was a pragmatist

Dear Editor, Baldeo Persaud writing in the Stabroek News (September 23), ‘Walter Rodney must be turning in his grave,‘ chose to criticize the leadership of the WPA for being a partner in APNU that will contest this year’s general elections.

Has the engineering firm appointed to supervise aspects of Synergy contract been performing its functions professionally?

Dear Editor, In a letter published by SN on September 20 (‘The Auditor General should investigate payments under the Synergy contract’), Ms Bulkan was of the opinion that payments for construction of the access road to the Amaila Falls seems to be out of whack and that the Auditor General should conduct an investigation before taxpayers are once again burdened with the cost of a non-performing project.

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