Opinion

In the late 1970s, then Prime Minister Forbes Burnham wanted to celebrate the anniversary of his years in Parliament.

Dear Editor, With reference to the Stabroek News letter dated Thursday, September 1, 2011, with the caption ‘Work done by contractors for GPL deficient,’ on September 7, one of the company’s senior metering technicians visited the premises of J Kadaru to verify the allegations made by the customer in your newspaper.

Dear Editor, It is about time that the police in Guyana be given some sensitivity training about how to handle simple problems.

Dear Editor, I was recently shown a copy of the Electricity Reform Act of 1999 which allows GPL the absolute power as a monopoly to deny their customers the legal right of bypass.

Dear Editor, Reading Stabroek News’ editorial titled “The state of our schools” (SN, September 13), I checked the 2011 budget where I found $24.3 billion Guyana dollars spent on education in 2011.

Dear Editor, Port Mourant Cricket Club executives and cricketers were very disappointed when the Berbice Cricket Board Selectors failed to select them given their outstanding individual performances.

Dear Editor, No one can deny that there is full press freedom in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Christopher Ram’s letter published in SN on September16 titled ‘The killing of Adolphus James is an indictment of our society.’

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter on Thursday, September 15, that is, on the eve of Appreciation Day for the contribution of President Jagdeo to the development of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Too many died from the senseless act of violence on 9/11, including several from the Caribbean.

Politikles

WikiLeaks’ decision to place sensitive diplomatic traffic completely within the public domain (following the inadvertent disclosure of codes used to encrypt the material) has prompted a number of heated debates around the world.

Dear Editor, The killing of 91-year-old Mr Adolphus James, the Linden security guard while on duty is an indictment of our entire society.

Dear Editor, I thought long and hard about this decision to voice my opinion on the matter of President Jagdeo’s Appreciation Day, not because I have reservations about his merit, but because I do not wish to add dignity to what seems to be to be a rather unnecessary and puerile discussion on this matter.

Dear Editor, I reiterate the AFC’s call to citizens to wear something black or put something black on their home or vehicle to show displeasure with the President’s Appreciation Day today.

Dear Editor, As I sat in the black-out that engulfed the city on Wednesday night, it dawned on me that after 12 years (the longest serving President) Bharrat Jagdeo and his regime were unable to do something as basic as keeping the lights on.

The recent statement by Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett that Guyana has made a full submission of a claim to an extended continental shelf to the United Nations, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), has elicited an interesting pair of responses in Venezuela – or rather, one interesting response and one interesting non-response.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Guyana will be at the crossroads again, when it will have its fifth elections since the restoration of democracy in 1992.

Dear Editor, It has been brought to the attention of members of the Justices of Peace and Commissioners of Oaths Association that there are persons out there who hang around the GPO and in the vicinity of lawyers’ chambers pretending to be justices of peace, and approach people offering the services of a justice of peace.