Opinion
The optical cable was being carried on GPL’s poles, not lines
Dear Editor, I would like to make some corrections and clarifications to avoid any reader being misled by the presentation in your article entitled ‘Incorrectly laid cables caused blackouts’ appearing in your Monday, February 10, edition of the Stabroek News.
Nismes residents want electricity wires attached to poles
Dear Editor, I am a resident of Nismes Electra Housing Scheme, a little village situated on the West Bank of Demerara, about eight miles from Georgetown.
The Bartica-Potaro road should be made into a highway
Dear Editor, The Bartica United Youth Development Group (BUYDG) is calling on Minister of Finance Ashni Singh to make provision in the budget for the transformation of the Bartica-Potaro road into a highway.
Has the cry for equality gone unheard?
Dear Editor, “No more silence, no to violence” is the loud slogan that I heard on the streets of Georgetown on Sunday, February 9.
What will the PNC/APNU do about the shadow foreign affairs portfolio?
Dear Editor, I read with great interest a very informative and well-articulated piece of writing in your paper on February 10, penned by Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (‘Norton’s statements on foreign policy irresponsible’).
The paramount goal in our public schools should be human development
Dear Editor, Lurlene Nestor in a very thought-provoking letter in KN chronicled a list of eight serious crimes (including one suicide) perpetrated by Guyanese youth during the first five weeks of 2014.
Individual achievements are not the same as foreign policy
Dear Editor, In the February 7 edition of the Kaieteur News there is a report of an interview I gave to that paper entitled ‘Guyana’s foreign policy is in a mess.’
Immigration Department officers were courteous and efficient
Dear Editor, I would like to publicly congratulate the members of the Immigration Department for the level of courtesy and efficiency shown on my recent visit to that department.
Another major achievement for Alex Foster
Dear Editor, On behalf of Patron Beverley Harper, President Keith Foster and members of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) I would like to express congratulations to the President of our founder group, the St Francis Community Developers, Alex Foster on his major achievement of winning the inaugural Commonwealth Caribbean Youth Worker Award.
Caricom foreign policy and the hemisphere
At the end of July 1990 an attempted coup in Trinidad & Tobago against the government of ANR Robinson took place, that continues to the present to be the subject of a Commission of Inquiry in that country.
Politikles
Congratulations to Basil Williams and Karen Cummings
Dear Editor, Allow me to take time out to congratulate the Peoples National Congress Reform Chairman, veteran politician and member of parliament Mr Basil Williams on his recent accession to the office of Deputy Speaker of the House.
Historical Lethem electricity prices were set assuming that most of the electricity would come from Moco Moco, but this has not been so since 2004
Dear Editor, As Lethem has been growing, and as more households and businesses and institutions, such as the new hospital, have come on line, the demand for electricity has been growing.
Good Hope cemetery even worse than three years ago
Dear Editor, Almost exactly three years ago you published the letter below and I now wish to state passionately that nothing was done by the administration concerned to remedy that contentious matter.
Injured donkey was left for seven days on the road
Dear Editor, I have been coming to Guyana for the last five years or so.
Why has Chanderpaul not been named in the line-up for the One Day Internationals against England?
Dear Editor, I have been covering international cricket for the past two decades and I know for a fact that regional cricket tournaments are treated as trial matches for international cricket.
The three parties should urgently sort out their differences
Dear Editor, The Bartica United Youth Development Group (BUYDG) is calling on the three political parliamentary parties to urgently sort out their differences and work in good faith in the interest of all the citizens of Guyana to complete the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Bill (AML/CFT) before the deadline (February 13).
Professionals not playing a sufficiently prominent role in construction industry
Dear Editor, Over the past years many tall buildings have been erected in the city and other parts of the country.
Guyana does not need more ethnic parties
Dear Editor, I write to correct an egregious attack on my character by Mr M Maxwell: ‘Guyana does not need the expansion of its ethnic competition …’ in which he stated that I defend “ethnic supremacy” (SN, Jan 31).
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