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Dear Editor, The English language has long not been owned solely by the English.

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Come August 1, this year, Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) twelve-year-old Dangerous Dogs Act will finally come into force.

Dear Editor, On April 3, 2012 President Donald Ramotar told the Guyanese people that a decision on embattled Police Commissioner Henry Greene would be made in “a few days time.”

Dear Editor, In light of the absence of locals and young people at the current Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) conference at the Conference Centre, it is beyond astonishing to read the Secretary General of the CTO, Mr Hugh Riley, saying he “cannot speculate” as to the reason. 

Dear Editor, The context within which Prime Minister Sam Hinds is using the 1976 electricity statement by then Prime Minister Forbes Burnham to justify a single supplier and electricity hike in Linden, is a total fabrication.

Dear Editor, In order to justify a ‘level playing field’ for electricity costs,  Lindeners were informed (SS April 15), by Mr Samuel Hinds, Prime Minister of the Republic of Guyana, that their power supply costs now heavily subsidized will have to be standardized with the rest of the country, since their continued sound growth and development without constraint is dependent on this necessary reform. 

Dear Editor, On Easter Monday, April 9, 2012, to my utmost surprise I learnt that the police in ‘G’ Division, that is the Essequibo police, held a bar-b-que and lime in the police compound next to the Richard Faikal Police Training School, where loud, lewd and vulgar music was played.

Dear Editor, The incorporation of the Linden area into the national electricity grid was advocated decades ago.

Dear Editor, Intriguing as your Sunday (April 15) editorial’s uncovering of the “undercover hassar“ was, it somehow seemed to relate to a larger mystery, in that no mention was made of the role of the Regional Administration in this project of despond, loosely termed as ‘aquaculture’ which, according to the current national budget, ‘falls’ within the Ministry of Agriculture.

Dear Editor, I recently travelled to Berbice to visit my relatives and friends.

The northern Colombia city of Cartagena de Indias, the location of the 6th Summit of the Americas, and once a major slave-trading port and subsequently the home of large numbers of people of African descent, would certainly have been of interest to leaders of Caribbean states attending the conference.

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Dear Editor, Mr Dimitri Allicock, to his great credit, has circulated an e-mail which draws public attention to the fact that within two weeks the City of Georgetown should be observing the 200th anniversary of its name change.

Dear Editor, I believe Mr Ram did not do a comprehensive analysis prior to determining that the shares sold by the government were undervalued (Business Page, April 15).

Dear Editor, I note the letter from Mr Raj Singh (“a concerned parent/educator”) in the Sunday Stabroek of April 15 captioned: ‘Sunday Stabroek Grade Six Practice Test Papers were an abomination.‘

Dear Editor, The Minister for Natural Resources and the Environment has published a few extra data on mis-management of purpleheart timber in the article ‘Purpleheart not being unsustainably managed – Persaud’ (Stabroek News, April 16, 2012). 

Dear Editor, KN of April 13, 2012, under the caption, ‘Brazilian company to develop ethanol plant at Albion Estate,‘ reported as follows: “Critical to such a venture is a successful sugar industry and the Agriculture Minister is optimistic about the future of GuySuCo, since according to him, the company is successfully confronting the challenges it is currently facing.”

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