Dear Editor,
It is appalling to note that even in the ‘International Year for People of African Descent’ the PPP government has decided that it will determine for us Africans who will be our leaders, our role models, which Africans will participate or be invited to functions that the government is holding.
Dear Editor,
Your caption ‘Iran seeks mutual agenda to strengthen ties with Guyana’ (SN, January 18).
Dear Editor,
I wish to congratulate Ms Joan Baveghems on her recent accession to the office of Member of Parliament.
Dear Editor,
The United Nations is marking 2011 the International Year for People of African Descent.
Dear Editor,
The public is well aware of the controversy which has erupted with my appointment to the Chairmanship of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA).
Dear Editor,
After reading about the land being offered to remigrants (only a fool would pay US$35,000 for a house lot in Guyana that’s less than ¼ of an acre), I went to the Central Housing & Planning Authority’s website to have a look at the application form.
Dear Editor,
There are some events which will always be larger than the agenda of any of the parts making up the whole to which that larger event relates.
Dear Editor,
Strike is a function of modern trade unions, mostly used as a last resort when issues submitted as grievances are not favourably considered by management.
Dear Editor,
Ilan Pappe, Israel’s bravest, most principled and most incisive historian and former senior lecturer of Political Science at Haifa University and Academic Director of the Research Institute for Peace, with access to the Israeli military archives gives in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine a completely different account to the one summarised by Mr Williams in his letter ‘Recognising Palestine as a sovereign state is an act of folly’ SN, January 15).
Dear Editor,
President Bharrat Jagdeo’s successful travel schedule during the past year adequately demonstrated why the presidential candidate of the People’s Progressive Party for the 2011 general elections must be a member of the young brigade.
Dear Editor,
At a recent Bath Settle-ment, political meeting Mr Ramjattan of the AFC pointed out that Indians should not be afraid of African people and even spoke of them living and doing well outside of Guyana, particularly in the Caribbean where there are predominantly black populations.
Dear Editor,
Albert Bolo Joseph, the Linden businessman who succumbed to a gunshot wound some weeks ago, was never known to be associated with any political party.
Dear Editor,
I wish to express my utter dismay and disapproval at recent developments in relation to Simon & Shock Inc.
Dear Editor,
I wish to address a letter published by Stabroek News dated January 11 captioned ‘Only one introductory LCDS meeting was held in Santa Rosa.’
Dear Editor,
US backed dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, fled Tunisia after two decades of totalitarian rule.
Dear Editor,
On the passing of our father, Nazir Mohamed, who was 90 years old, our deepest thanks and gratitude to all who expressed their condolences, the hundreds who came to see him, the many hundreds who came to the wake and the funeral, and those who continue to come to visit our mother and the family at home.
Dear Editor,
I have been following keenly the euphoria regarding the imminent elections for the new executive of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).
Dear Editor,
In accordance with the Sea Defence Act it is illegal for the owners of the Celina Resort to be granted a lease and allowed to build the resort over an existing grouted boulder slope sea wall.
Dear Editor,
We are writing this as parliamentarians prepare for budget day tomorrow.
Dear Editor,
I was interested to see Harry Hergash’s letter defending Dr Cheddi Jagan, Mr Bharrat Jagdeo, and the PPP’s record as a governing party over the course of its history (‘Jagdeo’s early experience as president shaped his thinking’ SN, January 6).