Opinion

Dear Editor, Another Nadirism needs to be excised from the body of misinformation regarding pension benefits alluded to in an earlier publication.

Dear Editor, I refer to a news item in the Stabroek News of Saturday, April 21, in which the Minister of Sport told the press that as far as he knows the Colgrain Swimming Pool is open to the public.

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A document circulating on the internet which has been seized on by many persons locally, makes the assertion that April 29, 2012 marks the two hundredth anniversary of Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Being relatively new to the Rupununi, I suspect you may be unaware that the principal owner of the Takutu Hotel, Mr Ivan Johnson, is one of the early pioneers of the Rupununi, dating back to the 1940s, when he left his home in Berbice and journeyed through the cattle trail to create a livelihood in the Rupununi.

Dear Editor, Those who reproach the decision of Chief Justice (ag) Chang in the matter Application by Henry Greene do so on two bases.

Dear Editor, I write to support APNU MP Deborah Backer’s recent call for the regularization of the backtrack operations between Suriname and Guyana.

Dear Editor, I wish to warn fellow Guyanese on the way they report their income to Republic Bank. My

We apologise for the fact that the wrong table was inserted in the letter published in our edition yesterday captioned, ‘Recruiting contract employees makes the Public Service Commission increasingly irrelevant to the administration’ by Mr Earl John.

Dear Editor, I was a witness to the government propaganda blitz around Parliament Building on Wednesday afternoon when public officers were ordered to leave their posts to support the Budget.

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We live in a sceptical age. After the Wikileaks phenomenon it is hard to be naïve about the news.

Dear Editor, According to Guyana’s national accounts gold accounted for 40% of Guyana’s exports in 2010 up from 20% in 2006, bringing in US$346M of total exports at US$891M.

Dear Editor, I  have seen that Mr Sasenarine has been Singh writing in several newspapers agreeing with the observation of Mr Moses Nagamootoo, that today Guyana is a very indebted country and our current debt is unsustainable and will heap a host of economic problems on our people.

Dear Editor, The Public Service Ministry should be the subject of an intensive performance review, in light of the recommendations made by at least three consultancies (since 2000) on the modernisation of the public service, including the updating of the Public Service Rules, which are in any case too often observed in the breach.

Dear Editor, The authorities appear to be requiring commercial passenger boats plying the rivers to be covered. 

Dear Editor, Linden Town Day celebrations started in the year 1996 with three days of activities which were intended to showcase Region 10 as it relates to culture, drama, art and craft and agriculture, among other things. 

Dear Editor, Our education is in a serious crisis. Our children are being treated disrespectfully.

Dear Editor, When I saw the letter on Republic Bank: ‘ATM machine “disappeared“ money’ (SN, April 3), written by an irate customer who, among other things mentioned the two hours, “I sat in the bank just staring at people,” I chuckled, remembering that just the other day I was in a similar situation.

On the third day of his trial, which began on Monday, for the massacre of 77 people in Norway, last July, Anders Behring Breivik began his testimony.