Opinion

Dear Editor, I have seen recent correspondence in the media pointing out that former Minister, Balram Singh Rai, was denied his Parliamentary Pension as a serving Minister.

Truth be told, last Saturday night, only a handful of the endling West Indies Test cricket fans bothered to change the channel on their television sets at 9.30 pm to view the fifth day of the First Test match versus Bangladesh.

Dear Editor, The controversy continues around the issuance of the two seabob fishing licences.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter that appeared in the Stabroek News on February 8, 2021, in which the former Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan responded to Mike Persaud on the US$4 million bakery to be set up in Guyana by the Fernandes Group – a Surinamese bakery.  

Dear Editor,                                                               Mrs. Genia Deflorimonte – Thomas is my grandmother, and is the cousin of Marcus and Paul Duncan Deflorimonte, who are the owners of West half of West of Lot 54 Victoria Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara vide Transport No.720 of 1956.

Dear Editor, There was a time when the West Indies Cricket Team used to rule the world of cricket.

Dear Editor, I have decided to write this letter in response to Kaieteur News’ Glen Lall’s appeal for professionals to get involve in influencing the direction of our oil and gas industry.

Dear Editor, I reside on the East Coast of Demerara, and it is most disturbing to see the amount of animals walking across the roadway and grazing on the median.

Dear Editor, I read two recent developments, and I think to myself when, if ever, will we get things right. 

This is not the first time that Guyana has made a seemingly inexplicable slipup in its foreign policy decision making and yet, in this instance, it defies belief that the government’s recent short-lived decision to establish a Taiwanese ‘outpost’ here, a move which Beijing would have seen as amounting to the creation of a de facto embassy in Georgetown, could have ended a matter of hours later in an unseemly retreat following a swift feral blast from the Chinese.

Dear Editor, The mother, who unhesitatingly handed over her sons, allegedly involved in the killing of the Belle West youth, to law enforcement, must be commended.

Dear Editor, My interest was piqued by a letter from Mike Persaud in Stabroek News, February 06, 2021.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s relations with the US and China are under the spotlight once again.

Dear Editor, Please excuse my tardiness [I am recovering from the Corona virus and was too ill to respond earlier] and allow me to make a few observations on a 7th January 2021 letter that was published in the newspaper under the caption -`Kars’ work on the 1763 rebellion reads more like historical fiction.’

We welcome the assurance by Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for finance, Dr Ashni Singh that an online portal for the publishing of all awards of government contracts is currently being set up by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB).

Dear Editor,  ExxonMobil has again started to flare gas because of a compressor failure.

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to a letter published in your newspaper titled (‘We urge Ministry of Education to ensure release of Official CAPE and CSEC results’, Feb, 06 2021).