Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The dispute between GB@GWU and RUSAL was allowed to drag on for over a year and the Ministry of Labour should take some responsibility since the issues fall within the grievance procedure under the Collective Labour Agreement and should be treated as such.

Dear Editor, Mr M Maxwell lacks comprehension. See his letter in SN of 31.12.2010 (‘Democratic centralism gets the last laugh’).

Dear Editor, Please refer to the letter in SN captioned ‘Large hole in Kitty road,’ and dated December 21, 2010, which highlighted the situation with the road on McDougal Street, Kitty.

Dear Editor, The United Nations General Assembly voted on December 22 to restore the reference to sexual orientation in a resolution condemning extra-judicial, summary and arbitrary executions.

Dear Editor, Informed sources must express disappointment in the response given by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture to the letter published in your columns of December 28.

Dear Editor, I have been following events relative to the reaction of the government to words spoken by Mr Carl Greenidge at the funeral service of Mr Winston Murray.

Dear Editor, With the primary interest of preserving lives, one would wish for much more effective control and management of our exponentially growing road transportation confusion.

Dear Editor, Peter Persaud seems to be the government’s propaganda man on Amerindian affairs.

Dear Editor, Happy New Year to all Guyanese.  This year we shall commit ourselves to burying the philosophy of all Guyanese are equal but some are more equal than others. 

Dear Editor,In the face of the blizzard that was experienced by the north-eastern US states, many US airlines operating out of JFK advertised that they would reschedule passengers for free.

Dear Editor, Every so often one comes upon a letter that is so ill-conceived and littered with misconceptions that one can only ascribe untoward designs to its author.

Dear Editor, Ms Gail Teixeira, Presidential Advisor on Governance is quoted in Kaieteur News of Thursday, December 30 as saying that the failure by the government to bring into force the Amerindian Act, 2006 four years after its passage was “a mistake, but the only such mistake by the Government in their eighteen years in office.”

Dear Editor,The Stabroek News edition of December 25, 2010 reported that Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir had informed the National Assembly that the Labour Ministry had remained engaged with the workers who were dismissed by RUSAL (Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc) and to date only four had visited the ministry.

Dear Editor, Since the announcement by Robert Corbin that he will not be the presidential candidate and the push by the Murray camp at the last General Council for a date by which the presidential candidate of the PNCR should be identified, many have announced their intention by going to the public domain.

Dear Editor,Chimney Road which straddles Chateau Margot and joins the East Coast Highway at its northern end and the Railway Embankment Road at the southern end is becoming a very dangerous road.

Dear Editor,Moses Nagamootoo is eerily similar to Ralph Ramkarran: standing silent while wrongdoings of every nature were committed by inner and outer circle PPP members in the past 18 years.

Dear Editor, I must have penned those famous opening words, ‘Dear Editor,’ thousands of times.

We are reprinting the letter below even although it appeared in our edition yesterday because the end portion of it was inadvertently omitted.

Dear Editor, I write in response to the letter captioned ‘Has an appointment been made to the chairmanship of the Guyana  Livestock Development Authority’ in your letter columns of Tuesday, December 28, 2010.

Dear Editor, Sugar workers experienced one of their worst years in 2010 and in an effort to ameliorate the public outcry, the President announced a one-off 5% payment on Wednesday.