Opinion

Dear Editor, From a recent trip to Guyana, I am just appalled by the many excuses that the Guyanese people, especially and most surprisingly, the youths, are fabricating not to vote in the upcoming elections.

Politikles

Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s decision to leave the leadership of Jamaica is unexpected but not too difficult to appreciate.

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.

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.

Dear Editor, Value Added Tax (VAT) is a burden on the shoulders, minds and pockets of the people of Guyana, for it is too high.

Dear Editor, The September 28 election is of great importance to the short-term and long-term future of the University of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has scored a major diplomatic breakthrough at the recent UN General Assembly when he presented his bid for Palestinian statehood to thunderous applause from an overwhelming majority of world leaders.

Dear Editor, I wish to conclude my take on President Jagdeo’s address to the UN last week Thursday in which he talked about four security challenges facing the world.

Last week, a court in the United States sentenced  a retired Bolivian military officer, Rene Sanabria, to fourteen years in prison for masterminding a drug-trafficking network that exported cocaine manufactured in Bolivia to Miami.

Dear Editor, You cannot paint a horse and call it a zebra, and neither can Donald Romotar divorce himself from President Jagdeo and the current PPP regime, with its neglect, its corruption, its thievery and its shame.

Politikles

Dear Editor, For those of us old enough, let us make a thirty-year comparison with how Georgetown felt and looked then, to its current state now in 2011.

Dear Editor, It has been three weeks now since a call was made to GWI about overflowing sewage in Fourth Street, Alberttown, coming up through the gully.

Dear Editor, I feel that finally the victims of rape in Guyana are on the road to receiving some amount of justice for what happened to them after reading that Justice Winston Patterson had sentenced a man to 50 years in prison for raping an underage girl.

Dear Editor, Having already addressed the President’s food security challenge highlighted in his purportedly last address to the UN last Thursday, I now turn my attention to his energy security reference.

Dear Editor, Why don’t governments stop wasting money to have an army, navy or air force.

Dear Editor, Some time this week, it was brought to the attention of the local Facebook community that management of the National Communi-cations Network (NCN) had banned the music of Jamaican dancehall artiste, Vybz Kartel.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Two years ago I wrote a letter saying that fishermen should get gun licences.