Letters to the Editor

Number of teaching vacancies advertised reflects a chronic deficiency in the education sector

Dear Editor, The vacancies advertised by the Teaching Service Commission in the Sunday papers of January 16, 2011 total 620, identified as follows: a)  Nursery – 85 b)  Primary – 237 c)  Secondary – 77 d)  Heads of Department (Primary and Secondary) – 203 e)  Practical Instruction Centres – 18 Examination of the various texts reveal some interesting, if not wholly disturbing, indicators of the extent to which some regions are bereft of relevant qualified human resources.

A voter has the right to secrecy

Dear Editor, Member of the PPP’s Central Com-mittee and Executive Committee, Presi-dent Jagdeo, at a press conference said: “But more importantly, there is a danger we have always been worried that people could promise other things to get them to vote for them and this is the danger of secret balloting…” This view is an insult to the large majority of the Central Committee (CC) of the PPP in terms of what would influence the way in which they would vote in order to choose the presidential candidate for the PPP/C.

Ramsaran worked hard on behalf of the Guyanese and Indian diasporas

Dear Editor, I am humbled by Suresh Singh’s citation of me, among a few other NY-based Guyanese, as someone who is deserving of the Indian Pravasi Award in letter captioned ‘There are others who are deserving of the Pravasi Award’ (SN, Jan 15) in response to Ashok Ramsaran’s recognition from the Government of India (GOI).

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