Opinion

There has been no semblance of real service by the city to areas like Bel Air Park

Dear Editor, As reported in SN of March 20, the Deputy Mayor for the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) chaired a meeting of the Finance Committee to consider the City’s Budget for 2012 and in her brief remarks she admitted that for over twenty years the budget catered for notational balances rather than provisions for satisfactory services for the citizenry in all areas under its mandate. 

Madmen or monsters?

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called the gunman who killed three French paratroopers and a rabbi and three young children in Toulouse, a “monster.”

Caught in the crossfire

Andy Hunte is dead at two months old. He died on Tuesday night as a result of being caught in the crossfire of physical abuse being meted out by one of his parents to the other.

Out of range of FM signal

Dear Editor, If Leon Suseran (SN March 19, 2012) lives 70 miles away from a transmitting station in Georgetown, he would be well over a mile in depth below and out of the reach of its FM signals, because such very high frequencies are scarcely reflected by the Earth’s ionosphere, except sometimes during a solar (coronal mass ejection) flare.

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