Opinion

Dear Editor, At the end of last year I wrote the following: “As Guyanese engage in the usual old year stock-taking, reflection will also invariably focus on what lies ahead.

Towards the end of last year the Commissioner of Police publicly declared that the extent of the attendance at the annual Police Gymkhana could be taken to mean that the Police Force still had many friends among the Guyanese people.

Dear Editor, Some of the many things that immediately come to mind about this government are the combination of its ignoring or ignorance of basic laws, its neutralising or neutering of the opposition and its tendency to pass the buck at every opportunity.

Dear Editor, The dispute between GB@GWU and RUSAL was allowed to drag on for over a year and the Ministry of Labour should take some responsibility since the issues fall within the grievance procedure under the Collective Labour Agreement and should be treated as such.

By way of a letter in the SN dated December 30, 2010, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Mr Dindyal Permaul disclosed that veterinarian and Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr Steve Surujbally had been appointed as Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA).

Politikles

Dear Editor, Mr M Maxwell lacks comprehension. See his letter in SN of 31.12.2010 (‘Democratic centralism gets the last laugh’).

Dear Editor, Please refer to the letter in SN captioned ‘Large hole in Kitty road,’ and dated December 21, 2010, which highlighted the situation with the road on McDougal Street, Kitty.

Dear Editor, The United Nations General Assembly voted on December 22 to restore the reference to sexual orientation in a resolution condemning extra-judicial, summary and arbitrary executions.

Dear Editor, Informed sources must express disappointment in the response given by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture to the letter published in your columns of December 28.

Dear Editor, I have been following events relative to the reaction of the government to words spoken by Mr Carl Greenidge at the funeral service of Mr Winston Murray.

Dear Editor, With the primary interest of preserving lives, one would wish for much more effective control and management of our exponentially growing road transportation confusion.

Dear Editor, Peter Persaud seems to be the government’s propaganda man on Amerindian affairs.

Dear Editor, Happy New Year to all Guyanese.  This year we shall commit ourselves to burying the philosophy of all Guyanese are equal but some are more equal than others. 

Dear Editor,In the face of the blizzard that was experienced by the north-eastern US states, many US airlines operating out of JFK advertised that they would reschedule passengers for free.

Dear Editor, Every so often one comes upon a letter that is so ill-conceived and littered with misconceptions that one can only ascribe untoward designs to its author.

Dear Editor, Ms Gail Teixeira, Presidential Advisor on Governance is quoted in Kaieteur News of Thursday, December 30 as saying that the failure by the government to bring into force the Amerindian Act, 2006 four years after its passage was “a mistake, but the only such mistake by the Government in their eighteen years in office.”

Politikles

A quick recap of the big news stories from last year shows just how random our impressions of the world have become in an age of nonstop broadcasting.

Dear Editor,The Stabroek News edition of December 25, 2010 reported that Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir had informed the National Assembly that the Labour Ministry had remained engaged with the workers who were dismissed by RUSAL (Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc) and to date only four had visited the ministry.