Opinion

Since taking office on August 2nd there has been frenetic activity by the PPP/C government in all sectors except for its legislative agenda where it is inexplicably still to present a range of bills that should have been in deep contemplation for months.

Dear Editor, This letter includes my commentary to The Dialogue (https://www.thedialogue.org/energy-advisor/)

Dear Editor, No less an authority than the World Bank laments that despite our wealth, Guyana is still among the poorer relations in the South American family of nations (Stabroek Business, November 27). 

Dear Editor,  The PPP assumed office with many promises. On the legislative front they promised a ‘fast track’ approach with a ‘heavy agenda’.

Dear Editor, It is long past the time when rhetoric should be considered ‘assertive action’ in the context of domestic violence prevention.

Dear Editor, The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child highlights the need for a few things with regards to children. 

Dear Editor, My wife and I, senior citizens have a foster daughter nine years old who is a fourth grader at the Saxacalli Primary School.

With the entry of each new government into office the electorate hears the same recitations about development.

Dear Editor, It has come to my attention that Mr. Roy Beepat, proprietor of Giftland, in dealing with the claim by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) that he owes the city substantial sums, referred to his Worship the Mayor Mr Ubraj Narine as “A stupid little boy who doesn’t understand politics”.

Dear Editor, I regret that Diego Maradona fabled son of Argentina is no longer of terra firma. 

Dear Editor, In his golden gift to the literary world the 12th century Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher  Omar Khayyam and author of “The Rubaiyat” wrote the following illuminating quatrain:-   Yon rising Moon that looks for us again How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft  hereafter rising look for us Through this same Garden and for one in vain.

Dear Editor,  It is almost three weeks now that the East Bank hire cars park has been cut by half leaving operators struggling for survival.

Dear Editor, It was good news to hear that the Region 6 authorities have taken firm steps to enforce the Covid-19 restrictions.

Dear Editor,  To the best of my knowledge, those who steal NIS contributions end up saving two-thirds of what they have to pay.

Dear Editor, What about workers in the middle and back of the line, are they too being considered for the two weeks bonus?

Yesterday representatives from the African Union held desperate eleventh-hour talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to dissuade him from the ‘final phase’ of his military campaign to crush the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).

Dear Editor, The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) announced last week its plan to host a national conversation on ethnic relations to, according to its press release, “have frank and open discussions to capture diverse views on factors that impede ethnic harmony and recommendations for the compilation of a report, to be submitted to the National Assembly and relevant stakeholders for implementation.”

Dear Editor, The PPP’s legislative agenda is looking conspicuously thin to date.