Opinion

Dear Editor, The residents and the IMC-NDC Bartica would like to thank the Guyana Fire Service stationed in Bartica for their quick response on Friday, November 9, when bad-minded persons wilfully set the NDC building on fire.

Dear Editor, I refer to your letter dated November 8, 2012 from Mr Peter Christopher in connection with Registered Mail #RW635741 463CA from Canada.

If one were to appraise President Ramotar’s one-year anniversary and the PPP/C’s unbroken 20-year tenure through the prism of local government the only substantial conclusions that can be drawn are that the government has failed miserably and in doing so has exercised its own version of party paramountcy over the various organs.

Dear Editor, As luck would have it, an email sent me searching for a video on YouTube to find what I did not seek.

Dear Editor, Seventeen years ago today, Help & Shelter formally launched its crisis service to provide counselling, referral services and other support to victims of domestic and sexual violence and child abuse.

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The private sector’s interventions on political matters have not always been appropriate or defensible, but at least the most recent ones concerning events in Parliament have plain common sense to recommend them.

Dear Editor, On Nov 12, 2012, friend and animal activist, Judy Beepat, called me around 1pm.

Dear Editor, In the Sunday Chronicle we saw a Ministry of Education advertisement inviting bids in relation to the Guyana Improving Teacher Education Project for the supply of laptops.

Dear Editor, My problem which was relayed in a letter in last Tuesday’s issue of SN (November 20) under the caption ‘GT&T collecting rent from phone which has not been fixed for 20 months‘ has now been solved with the installation of a new telephone set.

Dear Editor, Raphael Trotman should not have sought legal advice on whether the National Assembly can act against Clement Rohee.

The struggle to control the future of trade publishing changed subtly at the end of last month when Penguin and Random House, two of the world’s leading publishing houses, merged to form a company with projected annual revenues in excess of US$3 billion (in the global market of $12.5 billion), and a market share of just over one in seven books worldwide.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to an editorial note in which you replied to Mr Vishnu Bisram’s contention (Thursday, Nov 21) that the SN wanted to know and published his job and educational background at my insistence.

Dear Editor, It is important that the decision of the GDF, as announced by Chief of Staff Commodore Best, that the army will not discriminate against soldiers on the basis of their sexual preference, be publicly acknowledged because it is such an important step forward in Guyana for human rights and human dignity.

Dear Editor, Although the government has issued an order that private security guards should be paid $140.00 per hour effective June 1, 2012, the company for which I work (name provided) is still paying $120.00 per hour.

Dear Editor, The loss of trust in society seems to be producing a generation of thieves and daylight crooks.

Dear Editor, In August of this year, the Cort family with roots to Rosehall Town Corentyne, held a family reunion in Guyana.

It must have been a measure of Sir Shridath Ramphal’s increasing despair over the health of Caricom that he should have recently stated in a speech in Suriname that that country, led by former coup leader and dictator now democratically elected President Desi Bouterse, could “breathe new life” into the regional integration movement.

Dear Editor, The University of Guyana’s Council has shortlisted four out of a list of 19 applicants for the post of vice-chancellor of the institution.