Letters

• What have foreign timber companies been doing for the local community?

  By Stabroek staff | Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 6 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  There are a couple of foreign companies which are engaged in timber extraction in Guyana. Take for instance Jaling Forest Industries that is located …

• Why are we celebrating Caricom Day?

  By Stabroek staff | Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 3 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  On Monday we are supposed to celebrate Caricom Day. Really, what for? Caricom has failed its peoples – every facet of Caricom, from integration, …

• Zelaya played a role in his own ouster

  By Stabroek staff | Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  I read your editorial, ‘Honduras throwback,’ (July1) and while I agree with its general tenor, I have to say it did not go deep …

• Guyana belongs to all of us

  By Stabroek staff | Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 9 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  Mr Gerhard Ramsaroop’s chiding remarks on the contents of some letters supposedly emanating from one Elizabeth Daly, in which she/he engages in a …

• Domestic violence, etc, is not just a problem among the poor

  By Stabroek staff | Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 0 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  Once again the programme ‘Our Life, Our culture’ on NCN, June 21, did a splendid job in giving us added insight into the …

• Was $100M set aside annually for the departments of sport and culture?

  By Stabroek staff | Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  An article in the SN dated January 1, 2007 that was captioned ‘$100M annually for sports, arts fund – Jagdeo’ will no doubt raise …

• Congratulations to NCN Linden

  By Stabroek staff | Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 5 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  Let me be the first Lindener to take my hat off to the television station for the improved services and programming that are being …

• Defensive posturing and a lack of respect for the common sense of Guyanese

  By Stabroek staff | Friday, July 3, 2009 | 12 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  I was entirely bemused reading Ms Elizabeth Daly’s fulminations vis-à-vis Dr Tarron Khemraj.  Her last missive (KN July 1) however has forced me to …

• Inefficient phone service on Essequibo Coast

  By Stabroek staff | Friday, July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,

  GT&T has been installing a new antenna service on the Essequibo Coast. The system is inefficient, phone calls are distorted, contact is lost during …

• Well at Covent Garden not working

  By Stabroek staff | Friday, July 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  I write this letter to you on behalf of my friends living in the Covent Garden, Prospect and Little Diamond areas.
  The well which is …

• Damned if they do speak and damned if they don’t

  By Stabroek staff | Friday, July 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  After reading Peeping Tom’s column in Kaieteur News  on Saturday, June27, 2009, captioned  ‘The PPP is in a tangle,’ it occurred to me that …

• Cheddi Jagan was the true Marxist

  By Stabroek staff | Friday, July 3, 2009 | 12 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  The recent death of Ranji Chandisingh brought many statements from many prominent politicans and personalities in this country. Let me extend to the family …

• Michael Jackson’s music described certain world realities

  By Stabroek staff | Friday, July 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  Michael Jackson was truly an icon in the global music industry. Beyond his personal troubles he was the embodiment of phenomenal talent. Nonetheless, he …

• Does the case of Chile provide any lessons for us?

  By Stabroek staff | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 6 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  As one of those who dabbled in radical socialism in the 1970s, I viewed the overthrow of the democratically elected Marxist-orientated Chilean government …

• The police already have telephone numbers for relatives of those who died in Abary Creek tragedy

  By Stabroek staff | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,

  In response to the article published in your newspaper captioned ‘Cops want relatives to provide numbers used to call 911’ (SN, June 30), I …

• An honourable man

  By Stabroek staff | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 29 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  The headline ‘Being a Minister has made me poorer – Dr Ramsammy’ in the Kaieteur News publication of Sunday, June 14, 2009 caught my …

• Politics and ethnic trust issues are the biggest obstacles to Guyana’s development

  By Stabroek staff | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 10 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  The SN article captioned ‘Volda trounced Norton…’ in the June 29 edition will no doubt stimulate speculation about Guyana’s future.  The assertions of …

• The brouhaha over illegal Guyanese in Barbados is a wake-up call to Guyanese at home

  By Stabroek staff | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 36 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  I have been trying to follow the illegal-Guyanese-in-Barbados brouhaha and I have come to this conclusion: It is a wake up call for Guyanese …

• Why has Tsvangirai become Mugabe’s defender-in-chief?

  By Stabroek staff | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  In his interview on BBC Radio 4 on June 22, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai made several erroneous statements. Firstly, he rejected Sekai Holland’s …

• The election for leadership of the PNCR Georgetown District was an embarrassment to the party

  By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | 37 Comments

  
  

  Dear Editor,
  What a display by members of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) at the just concluded election for leadership of the Georgetown District. What …

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