Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It was just after 7 am on May 11, 2011, when an ex-employee of the GSPCA, travelling  west in a minibus on Homestretch Ave, saw (from the bus window) what looked like a piece of wood on the road.

Dear Editor, One of the tragedies of Guyana’s political culture is the absence of any space for discourse and dialogue.

Dear Editor, The headlines of Stabroek News (SN) of May 12, ‘Motilall sold Amaila licence to Sithe,’  and of Kaieteur News (KN) of the same date, ‘Fip flips licence to Sithe Global’ do our people and country great harm. 

Dear Editor,It would have been wiser if Prime Minister Samuel A Hinds, had just kept quiet about Synergy’s Mr Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall, transferring his licence for the development of the Amaila Falls Hydro-Electric Project (AFHEP) to Sithe Global, rather than pen a back-fired missive taking umbrage with Stabroek News and Kaieteur News for their reportage on the licence transfer.

Dear Editor, So Minister Clement Rohee says David Granger is treading on dangerous ground when he talks about the crime situation.

Dear Editor, When the government stated that Mr Fip Motilall’s company was given the contract for the Amaila Hydro Project, there was much objection from the diaspora, mainly because it was felt that the company did not have the requisite experience for such a large undertaking.

Dear Editor, The annual heavy rains seem to have already descended upon the Rupununi.

Dear Editor, On the East Bank dual carriageway beginning from the Harbour Bridge there are about ten to eleven pedestrian crossings up to the Vieira turn, most of which were added within the last few months.

Dear Editor, Mr Deonarine, Assistant to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport responded to my letter captioned ‘Given the poor support from government the artist community is shocked by the size of the budget allocation to the Culture Ministry (SN, April 27) with a letter to SN published on April 30 captioned ‘If Mr Alli is truly interested in partnership, he should engage the Director of Culture, Dr James Rose.”

Dear Editor, ‘Pakistan’s Prime Minister rejected accusations over bin Laden’ was the title of a news item On May 10, but Americans see Pakistan as complicit in protecting the terror mastermind and there are calls, even among members of Congress, to cut the anti-terror alliance with that country.

Dear Editor, It is heartening to hear about the recent agreement between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) about higher pay and greater benefits for present-day teachers.

Dear Editor, A young man was stranded in Lethem for over three days without money and sought financial assistance from a relative on the coast.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday I was bitten by a centipede (a 7” monster), an experience I will never like to re-live.

Dear Editor, The right of asylum is an ancient juridical notion which can be traced back to the Greeks and the Egyptians.

Dear Editor, I am constantly being agitated to say something, ever since the announcement of Guyana’s decision to observe and celebrate the UN declaration of the year of people of African descent.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me space to respond to a piece that Dr.

Dear Editor, The Office of Climate Change has noted the article of Sunday, May 8th 2011 in the Sunday Stabroek headlined `PNCR exclusion from LCDS Committee ‘unsatisfactory’ – Norway’.

Dear Editor, Please permit us a space in your daily newspaper to voice our grave concern.

Dear Editor, I would like to comment on a letter written by Jinnah Rahman in the Monday, May 9, 2011 edition of Stabroek News which once again made outrageous and unsubstantiated claims to draw attention to him and to fulfill his own cheap political agenda.

Dear Editor, Having read the latest of Mr. Desmond Ali’s frequent criticism on the Art situation in Guyana published in Stabroek News on Wednesday April 27, 2011 under the caption `Given the poor support from the government, the artist community is shocked by the size of the budget allocation to the Culture Ministry’, we cannot help but reject and disassociate ourselves and organizations we represent from such a statement.