What has bread and minibus fares have in common constantly occupies the mind of Mabel and it is the painful truth that government cannot impose price control that is unilaterally charged for the staple food item and the vital need of transportation services.
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It is a universal felt need that is daily confronted by most Guyanese resulting in acute dissatisfaction and Mabel is forced to admit that urgent attention by government in addressing this open and glaring exploitation by unmindful, rapacious members of the business sector must be taken as a priority.
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Why oh why are the producers of bread permitted to sell the items according to size than by weight|? The need to use weight to determine the selling price is a cardinal principle adopted by authorities throughout the world.
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What of the minibus operators who are led to believe that they cannot be subject to fare regulation?
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Will there ever be a return to a well organised and regulated transportation public or private service to cater for the thousands and thousands of Guyanese who are forced to rely on commuting in the course of a normal working day? And, what of the school children?
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There is more evidence to worry about the true intention of our neighbouring country to the west. They have issued an electronic statement on the opening of the Takutu Bridge, noting that the bridge has been completed, but they will not abandon their claim to five-eights of our entire country.
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Mabel believes that charges of treachery can be successfully pursued.
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How much truth is there in the gossip making the rounds in certain influential circles that many who support the current leader in the ongoing Palm Tree political party’s internal fight do so because poor Robert Corbin cannot win national elections? Talk about ingenious agendas!
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There is a former top echelon editor suffering from an inflated ego and holds a record of being dismissed within weeks of assuming office as principal editor in one of the private-owned newspaper who may be on the verge of being named in a sensitive positive position of national import.