Category: Letters

Dear Editor, The letter from Communities Minister, Ronald Bulkan, who, interestingly enough, signed it, not as a government minister, but on behalf of the People’s National Congress Reform, warrants a response. This letter is the latest from the PNC and groups (and individuals) linked to the PNC and the PNC-led Coalition government, which seeks to defend President David Granger’s action. What we have seen is a breakaway from 25 years of established procedure. What we have also seen is a breach of the Constitution. There is no doubt, despite the…

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Dear Editor, Today, increasingly, the widespread perception is that the young are feeling not very involved or engaged. From my conversations with the hundreds of folks who take the time to communicate with me using the various social media channels, I am being told increasingly that something is really wrong with the economic system in Guyana in 2017. While youth unemployment is a challenge globally at 13.5 per cent, in Guyana, according to the latest statistics from the World Bank, it was 25.5 per cent in 2016. If their business…

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Dear Editor, The poorly-paid teachers of Guyana are now being asked by the Prime Minister to exercise ‘patience’. A quality which was seriously lacking when the Coalition Government gave themselves salary increases ranging from 50 per cent to 100 per cent. These impoverished teachers are also told that the Ministers have now been exercising ‘patience’, since they will not be giving themselves any salary increases for this year and next year! He said that those in Government did not receive ‘a cent’ in increase in 2016 and 2017 and will…

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Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has taken note of the recent announcement by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, regarding the Government’s decision to impose for the third consecutive year pay rises for employees in the public service. Depending on their income, the workers, according to the Minister, will receive increases of between 8 per cent and 0.5 per cent, since that’s all the Government could afford. Our Union finds the Government’s expressed rationale insincere. We believe that, with more prudent spending and less extravagance and…

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Dear Editor, The date October 18, 2017 will be a day that will live in infamy. It will join the ranks of days like July 10, 1978, when the Constitutional Referendum was held or December 9, 1985, when one of the worst rigged elections took place. It will certainly be a date that Guyanese will remember with sadness for many years and generations to come. Historians will recall the day as the time when the APNU/AFC Government autocratic tendencies went into over drive and a day where the hard won…

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Dear Editor, On the night of October 19, 2017, Diwali night, the darkest night of the year, President Granger sworn in James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). This act went against everything that President Granger said he was looking for in a person to chair GECOM. But worse, it was a flagrant disregard of our Constitution. The President told the Opposition Leader that he was looking for a young person. He chose a man that is almost 85 years old. He spoke about the person not…

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Dear Editor, I listened/watched via live stream most of the sessions of the IDB/PSC Business Summit in Guyana last Wednesday and Thursday. I commend the organisers of this forum, and the participants for what was for me an informative and educative exercise. It is unfortunate that some aspects of the discourse turned out be partisan political, rather than analytical and solution-oriented. In a previously published letter, I offered my views on certain aspects of the first day of the deliberations. In that letter, I suggested, inter alia, a reassignment of…

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Dear Editor, David Hinds and Eric Philips were both cut from the same bolt of cloth. They are only interested in the welfare of Afro-Guyanese, and brand the PPP as a racist party. Their biggest fear is that Afro-Guyanese, who now see this “good life” as just an elusive dream, will see past their lies and find the PPP an attractive alternative to the failed Granger Administration. Adam Harris is frustrated and feels betrayed by the many failures of the incompetent Government he supports. Yet he can hardly write a…

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Dear Editor, The Honourable Attorney General, Basil Williams, and his surrogates seem to be staring at the sky, while the pretence that ‘all is well’ continues. Truly, “anti-corruption is everybody’s business”, as stated by Williams, at an Anti-Corruption Sensitisation Seminar at the Anna Regina Multilateral School Auditorium, Cotton Field Village, Essequibo Coast, as reported by Government’s Department of Public Information. If the Government is serious about fighting corruption, why not set up the Integrity Commission, in keeping with the Integrity Commission Act, as promised? The reason for this call being…

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