Letters to the Editor

GPL should not be placing more burdens on hard-pressed consumers

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News of Wednesday 5, carried an advertisement from GPL about disconnections, where it was stated that the consumer who is disconnected will have to pay the reconnection fee and an increased security deposit equivalent to six times the average of his or her monthly bill.

Does the private sector believe it has an obligation to contribute to the transformational process which is urgently needed?

Dear Editor, It is instructive that at this juncture the local private sector as a whole, conflicted as it is about what its respective relationships should be with its clients, civil society and particularly the young generations of our citizenry, does not espouse the same urgent sense of corporate social responsibility as publicly and consistently articulated by, for example, the Trinidad & Tobago Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Gas rationing is over in New York

Dear Editor, Gas rationing is officially over in New York City and what a relief it has been for the Guyanese community in Queens, Bronx and Brooklyn, indeed all over the city, to have unrestricted amounts of fuel so they can carry on with their business.

When in Rome…

Dear Editor, Just recently, while waiting for my vehicle to be washed, I witnessed a few persons (Chinese nationals, based on language and appearance), disposing of empty plastic bottles in the nearby canal.

A case of technical ‘eyepass’

Dear Editor, The statement by the source at the Guyana National Broadcast Authority (GNBA) in your Nov 29 issue that “once it could be verified that there is interference at Channel 6 the GNBA will move to investigate“ reveals their incompetence. All

Teixeira was very wrong

Dear Editor, In his presentation at the awards dinner of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry last Thursday Mr Clinton Urling, the Chamber’s President included in his wish list for Guyana a stronger civil society.

The MMA is not moving to take away state lands at Cotton Tree from the residents

Dear Editor, In response to a totally inaccurate and grossly misleading article headed ‘Cotton Tree Residents battling MMA over titled lands‘ published in the Thursday, December 6 edition of the Kaieteur News, the MMA herein issues the following statement: There is absolutely no truth whatsoever that the MMA or government is moving to ‘take away’ the state lands at Cotton Tree from the residents there.

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