Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, May the First has come and gone and the Guyanese worker is in a worse state than the year before.

Dear Editor, I have tried a few times to alert West Indian cricket people to the liberties foreign journalists take with West Indian cricketers.

Dear Editor, Could this be the long lost vintage/historic vehicle that once transported former Prime Minister LFS Burnham and Queen Elizabeth II during a state visit?

Dear Editor, It was reported in the news media on April 29, that Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder and his delegation returned home after a familiarization tour of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and Costa Rica in Central America.

Dear Editor, The sufferer who wrote the letter in SN of May 2, 2016 ‘Owner turned machines off before EPA came to measure noise levels’ after a year of complaints to authorities should log the noise levels over a period of time.

Dear Editor, I write to express my disgust about the slothful progress of the road repair project taking place in my street, Sunflower Close, South Ruimveldt Gardens.

Dear Editor, I have read a press release from the AFC which took me to task for what it called “regular attacks” on the party.

Dear Editor, Mr Vishnu Bisram completely missed the intent and objective of my letter to the press on rural Guyana v urban Guyana with respect to the formation of the new ERC (‘Rural Guyana being marginalised in nomination process for Ethnic Relations Commission’ SN, April 24).

Dear Editor, For the past two months or more, there hasn’t been a day where the crime situation in Guyana has not dominated the headlines of the more popular dailies.

Dear Editor, It is very disquieting that Ms Volda Lawrence is allowed to remain in office given what she has done. 

Dear Editor, It was indeed refreshing to see trade unions from the two umbrella organisations, FITUG and GTUC, march in the streets of Georgetown and converge at the National Park for the first time after many  years.

Dear Editor, Mr David Hinds protests the censoring of his views in columns in the Chronicle (‘There is need for major intervention at the Chronicle …’ SN, Apr 22).

Dear Editor, Between 18th and 20th April the various media houses carried extracts from a US State Department report which claimed that overcrowding at the various prisons in Guyana was a result of the presence of high numbers of persons on remand.

Dear Editor, I drove around town early yesterday morning and realized that, of the wards of Central Georgetown, only East Queenstown was still experiencing severe flooding. 

Dear Editor, I like to listen to or read great speeches.

Dear Editor, Writing to the letters column of your newspaper is my last resort after one year of complaints to the Environmental Protection Agency, Guyana Human Rights Association and the relevant government ministries.

Dear Editor, Guyana stamped its mark on the international circuit at the Expo 1967 in Canada, and from reading, I understand that the cultural aspects of our nation were well displayed and represented at that event.

Dear Editor, Saturday was supposed to be the final day for the submission of income tax returns, yet when a number of people visited the Diamond branch of the GRA in the morning to submit their returns, it was not open.

Dear Editor, I refer to the news report “Government will not undermine media workers’ professionalism – Granger” (SN, 30 April 2016) in which President David Granger is reported to have said “The Government of Guyana is committed to the promotion of a high degree of media professionalism.

Dear Editor, The Police Association of the Guyana Police Force wishes to let the public know that it takes umbrage at aspects of a press release issued by the Central Corentyne and Berbice Chambers of Commerce on 28th April, 2016.