Opinion

Dear Editor, Every week that passes, sees the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) dropping a new bombshell on the country.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has heard the cries of residents living along the corridor from Fort Wellington to Bath Settlement in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) and wishes to inform that street lights have been confirmed for this vulnerable stretch.

Dear Editor, It would be very inspiring, most meaningful, to hear and learn that all political parties make constitutional reform their first priority; all of them.

Dear Editor, In a troubled nation like Guyana, at least half of the citizenry has become adept at filtering out what their caretaker leader David Granger says publicly.

Dear Editor, I refer to the explanation proffered by President Granger when asked recently about the withholding of advertisements from the Stabroek News which he ludicrously referred to as a “commercial dispute” and justified the position by saying that Stabroek News did not see it fit to cover the “national event”,  the 175th Anniversary of Queen’ s College.

Dear Editor, When recently in Guyana, I  was surprised to see the blank looks on the faces of senior PPP and AFC politicians when I dared to say that ‘The next election in Guyana will be won on social media’ (as in the UK,USA.)

Dear Editor, So the Head of the Guyana Police Force “isn’t bothered” by the crime rate!

On October 29, nearly a week ago, it was reported to the media by several commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following their weekly meeting that a decision had been taken by the Chair, Justice (Rtd) Claudette Singh that the names of over 25,000 could be excluded from the Official List of Electors (OLE) for the March 2020 General and Regional Elections if those persons made no effort to uplift National Identification Cards which have not been collected going all the way back to 2008.

Dear Editor, At the `A Conversation with Guyana’ conference presented by the `Women of Queen’s College & Friends’ at the Pegasus Hotel, the conversation was spirited, honest and forthright.

Dear Editor, I write this letter for the sake of young people in this country.

Dear Editor, Exxon has an automatic ‘file sweep’ programme that has been deleting company records dated before August 2015.

Dear Editor, According to information available via the media, the chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has decided in favour of the exclusion of the particulars of registrants/electors from the Revised List of Electors (RLE) which will naturally follow the ongoing Claims and Objections exercise. 

Dear Editor, I refer to the article headlined, “Granger says media houses should get state ads based on ‘fairness’ of reportage” (SN: 02/11/19).

Dear Editor, The call that government ads to media houses must be based on fairness of reportage could be interpreted to mean favourable reporting.

Dear Editor, In a letter which appeared in the Stabroek News on October 31st, Mr Hamilton Green (Hammy), a former Mayor of Georgetown and also Minister of Works and Hydraulics (W&H) under the PNC government, expressed his disgust and trepidation at the callous clogging of drainage channels in the city and its environs as well as the filthy condition of the esplanade/bandstand and seawall east of the Pegasus Hotel.

This year, Queen’s College celebrates its 175th anniversary. It is one of the few functioning institutions to have survived here for this length of time, and the weight of that tradition is still apparent notwithstanding the vicissitudes to which the school has been subject in the more recent past.

Dear Editor, It appears to me that the integrity of Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund will be violated right from the start by an apparently unintended consequence of the income tax arrangements made with Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, also referred to as the “Contractor” in the Petroleum Agreement between Guyana and EEPGL.

Dear Editor, I do not know what meaning the CARICOM meeting of 23rd and 24th October adopted for the phrase “violence in school.”