Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, As Guyanese endure a 38% increase in gun related robberies, a 37% rise in murders, reports of a kidnapping and the failure of the judicial system to effectively prosecute offenders, we cannot avoid wondering how our anti-crime tax dollars are being used.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News of Tuesday April 15, 2014, under the heading ‘Confusion rages over anti-kidnapping unit,’ in order to clarify what acting Commissioner of Police Mr Seelall Persaud, actually said.

Dear Editor, There are two roads in Golden Grove and Nabaclis which are in dire need of urgent repairs.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to say to some of our very learned radio and television announcers and reporters that ever since I was a kid attending school, I was taught about the twenty-four hour day.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News’ position that the “fight against the use of the global financial network for criminal activities is as effective as the weakest link in this chain of effort,” succinctly captures the crux of Guyana’s problem which is again being manifested around the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill (AML/CFT). 

Dear Editor,   It is with great concern that I pen this letter to you.  

Dear Editor, In all fairness to former President Jagdeo, I am of the view that he recognized the critical weaknesses, vulnerabilities and fears of Guyanese and orchestrated a cunning plot to not only divide and rule the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) but also our country. 

Dear Editor, The People`s Progressive Party General Secretary Clement Rohee is quoted in the media as describing the actions of the combined opposition of voting against the allocation of $1.1B for an “Amerindian Develop-ment Fund,” as callous and vindictive saying that it represents a brutal assault on our Amerindian citizens.

Dear Editor,         I am seventeen years old and I live in Danielstown on the Essequibo Coast.

Dear Editor, Many persons stopped me on the road this past week to get my take on the fact that the combined opposition in Parliament has disapproved of the $1.1B set aside in the 2014 Budget for Amerindian Development.

Dear Editor, Another Guyanese-born judge has delivered an important decision against a Belize minister of government which will be a blow to the Dean Barrow administration, since that administration has a razor-thin majority.

Dear Editor, It has been nearly six months since Stabroek News has banned me from posting on their blog.

Dear Editor, It is my understanding that this week the Ministry of Culture’s estimates are up for consideration before the Committee of Supply in the National Assembly. 

Dear Editor, I refer to your editorial on Sunday, April 13 captioned, ‘Vulgarity.’

Dear Editor, I noted that in the Stabroek News of Saturday, April 12, 2014, in the article dealing with the Impact Albouystown Project on page 10, I have been misquoted as having said that the GPF has “at last” recognised the importance and necessity of forging… etc.

Dear Editor, I have noted that many ministries of the government are still registering dates via the use of ordinals in advertisements.

Dear Editor, While in India to analyse the general elections underway, I learnt of the passing of the Caribbean luminary, Professor Norman Girvan.

Dear Editor, The sum of $12M was approved in the 2013 national budget for an ambulance for the Mahdia Hospital, Region No.

Dear Editor, In a few weeks’ time Guyana’s major rainy season is expected to commence but the drainage systems in the city and along the coastland lack basic preparation (clean inland graded drains and outfall channels, drainage pumps in working order at critical locations, etc) all necessary to meet the impending challenges of heavy downpours with resulting widespread flooding.

Dear Editor, For those interested there will be a total eclipse of the Moon very early Tuesday morning April 15, 2014.