Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, There are vehicles coursing through city streets any hour of the day and night, blaring and blasting music from systems with decibels that could awake the dead.

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana must be commended for its demonstrative and strong leadership in the restoration of the City Hall Building.

Dear Editor, Caribbean American Legislative Week wrapped up on Saturday with a number of critical announcements and recommendations which serve to reinforce the CARICOM/United States partnership under the Biden/Harris Administration.

 Dear Editor, Once again, this time in his letter in SN of June 27, 2021 E.B.

Dear Editor, It takes a Michael Holding to call things as they are, a man legendary for his pace, pitch, and power on and off the grass. 

Dear Editor, By now most would have heard of the Delta variant or lineage B.1.617.2 first detected in Maharashtra (India) in December 2020.

Dear Editor, I respond to Mr Tacuma Ogunseye’s letter  SN 6-25 (Dev et al.,

Dear Editor, The media reported that when at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, charged with rape, bail was granted to three accused in the sums of $30,000, $75,000 and $150,000.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article titled, “EPA withdraws revised impact assessment guidelines – to consult with public after concerns raised” (SN June 26). 

Dear Editor, As I commenced research on the operations of the Council of Legal Education (CLE) which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year it was discovered that a total of 10,287 persons have qualified as attorneys from the Hugh Wooding Law School in St, Augustine, Trinidad (5,147), 4,646 from Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica and 494 from the Eugene Dupech in the Bahamas.

Dear Editor, Once again one hopes that the Teaching Service Commission would take note of the massive World Bank Grant of $1.4 Bn.

Dear Editor, Guyana has returned to the former approach by the PPP/C by which local government organs are being viewed by the State as satellites of the party in government and not as representatives of the people who elected those organs.

Dear Editor, In 2007, when the Cricket World Cup was coming to Guyana there was massive investment expansion in the hotel industry in Guyana to accommodate the anticipated large volumes of tourists and cricket-lovers.

Dear Editor, Two news developments caught the eye.  Since both span the whole works, viz.

Dear Editor, Enshrined in Section 189 (1) (b) of the Companies Act, “A company shall prepare and maintain at its registered office records containing – minutes of meeting…”, and further in Section 194 (1), the law allows the members of the company access free of charge to examine the company records – which includes minutes of meeting(s) during the usual hours of the company; yet Ogle Airport Inc.

Dear Editor, Bids were opened earlier this month and read for a tender contract (NDIA) to supply a fixed quantity of steel sheet piles.

Dear Editor, The United Nations, Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, stated that ‘Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust’.

Dear Editor, The citizens of Georgetown have now been forced to accept and abide by the dreadful fact that once there is rainfall in the city for a few minutes or more, several wards in our capital become flooded.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Ravi Dev’s letter published in the Stabroek News edition, Sunday, June 20, 2021: captioned, “I believe it was this subterfuge that scuttled the Rodney COI in 2005”.

Dear Editor, I was told by security personnel at the Regional Democratic Council Region 4 entrance that I needed to cover my arms in order to access the building and receive service as a visitor.