Opinion

Dear Editor, It was announced by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) that BK International (BKI) has been awarded a $26M contract for construction of a geotextile structure at Victoria on the ECD.

Dear Editor, The proliferation of strikes has apparently become another ‘normalcy’ in the sugar industry of Guyana – a phenomenon quite unusual in other sugar-producing countries in the Caribbean, and indeed the world at large.

The Government of Guyana never loses its capacity to surprise.  On August 3 it abstained from a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution condemning Syria for its indiscriminate use of heavy weapons in civilian areas and its widespread violations of human rights.

Dear Editor, As a sports fan who was disappointed by our showing at the just concluded Olympics, but in no way surprised, I find the comments by Mr Neil Kumar, Director of Sports very disparaging and insulting to our local athletes, who tried their best but simply could not cope with the high international standards because of the non-existent sports infrastructure in our country to adequately prepare them for such a high quality tournament.

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to your attention that the regional low-cost carrier REDjet has not yet reimbursed their passengers who purchased tickets with their airline.

Dear Editor, The National Communications Network (NCN) Inc wishes to acknowledge and respond to a letter published in your Wednesday, August 23, 2012 edition captioned ‘Did not post a facebook question to the TV panel on corruption’ written by Mr Anand Sanasie.

Dear Editor, You hop off a plane and the first person you come face-to-face with is an immigration officer.

Dear Editor, In 1960 when I started to attend concerts at the Town Hall, I found it very entertaining and relaxing.

Dear Editor, It seems as though the PPP and its Region 3 Members of Parliament have all passed on.

Dear Editor, It was with deep disgust that I read a letter on August 16 in SN, under the headline ‘Upper Corentyne Cricket Association has been unable to find out the mandate of the IMC.‘

Dear Editor, My letter in the Stabroek News dated August 22, highlighting the achievements of Essequibians Ricardo Adams and Ransford Beaton in the field of cricket (‘Adams, Beaton have placed Essequibo on the cricketing map’) unintentionally omitted the name of Rayon Thomas.

Dear Editor, We refer to a letter by Mr M Maxwell which in appeared in the SN of August 23 under the caption ‘The opposition is indolent.’

The US elections may seem safely distant to outsiders but many American pundits are confidently predicting a struggle for Obama to survive the disappointed hopes and lack of change in his first term.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Stabroek News and Kaieteur News on August 22, 2012, together carried five articles on corruption in other countries: ‘Liberia president suspends son in assets investigation‘; ‘Former Cuban officials get prison terms for corruption‘; ‘Guatemala sentences ex-police chief for war crimes‘; ‘Prominent Jamaica trio to face perversion of justice charge‘; and ‘Brazil’s largest-ever corruption  trial‘ (of 38 former and current government officials).

Dear Editor, We wholeheartedly agree with the GHRA in its opinion of the Chief Justice’s ruling on Sexual Offences Act (SOA) paper committals (press release: ‘Justice Chang’s judgement another blow to access to justice for victims of sexual offences,‘ reported in Stabroek News of August 18 (‘Chief Justice’s paper committal ruling “flawed”‘).

Dear Editor, As a matter of principle, I do not waste my busy time with people who are more interested in negative thinking than in working to make a positive difference.

Dear Editor, Since Guyanese seems to be waxing in the mode of national conversation on what to many are considered critical topics, my personal opinion is there is need for the urgent inclusion of the magistracy and its sentencing policy.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank Dr Ian McDonald for his Sunday columns, which I started reading only a few weeks ago.