Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Christopher Ram’s commentary on GPL (SN, April 27) was quite an eye-opener.  

Dear Editor, It was recently brought to my attention through family and friends from Port Kaituma, Region One, that they are faced with deplorable health risks. 

Dear Editor, According to your Wednesday, May 15, edition, 21 of 34 Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) employees recently failed a lie detector test and are to be dismissed, save for one who resigned.

Dear Editor, I wish to clarify a sentence in my letter which you published (‘It is time the Natural Resources Sectoral Committee of Parliament asked serious questions of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the GFC and Bai Shan Lin,’ Stabroek News, May 11). 

Dear Editor, Father’s Day is rapidly approaching and I cannot help but think of the untimely death of my beloved father, Vickramaditya Vidyasagar Puran.

Dear Editor, We know for sure, that there are ‘Holy Cows’ or ‘Untouchables’ in our society apart from those who some claim are in government.

Dear Editor, I thoroughly enjoyed Dave Martin’s excellent column, ‘The Black Watch time’ (SN, May 12), particularly the anecdotal history present therein, although I find myself in a qualified disagreement with his conclusion, “I don’t think we’re in that time now.”

Dear Editor, The following lines came to me as part of an email message on May 12, 2013.

Dear Editor, There has been much public comment on the matter of the Oliver Tambo Award to late President Forbes Burnham.

Dear Editor, From the press release of Sunday, May 12, 2013 adverting to the appointment of “civilians” to the newly created Department of Strategic Management in the Guyana Police Force, it is well understood that the appointees are already at work, having been chosen by a select committee on which, reportedly, there was private sector representation.

Dear Editor, I write in reply to yesterday’s letter in SN written by J Hughes and titled ‘Women should begin to look at themselves.’

Dear Editor, I moved into Non Pareil, East Coast  Demerara, four years ago and am always amazed at the narrow bridge which leads into Dr Carter’s Road from the public road.

Dear Editor, With GuySuCo’s first crop amounting to a paltry 48000 MT, it seems uncertain the corporation will reach the lowest yearly output of 129,000 tons recorded in 1985.

Dear Editor, I am at the end of the tunnel. For over a month I have not been able to retrieve messages left on my GT&T phone.

Dear Editor, Politics, as History, is rarely treated to objective analysis.

Dear Editor, As a youngster a popular song was ‘Dem Bones’:  “Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones, and ya head bone connected to ya neck bone and ya neck bone connected to ya shoulder bone,” etc.

Dear Editor, The annual audited reports of all the major business enterprises in Guyana are showing higher levels of returns on investments.

Dear Editor, I have decided, with some reluctance to enter the controversy which has arisen over the allocation of radio frequencies, especially as there is pending litigation concerning the granting of licences initiated by Mr Enrico Woolford.

Dear Editor, Over time, the majority of Councillors expressed grave dissatisfaction over the strange behaviour of the acting Town Clerk, Ms Carol Ryan Sooba, and out of sheer frustration did something unprecedented by leaving the council chamber as long as Ms Sooba was occupying the chair.

Dear Editor, I recently had to go to the Licence Office on Smyth Street to conduct a transaction, and the general environment of this building is unbelievably poor and unhealthy.