Letters to the Editor

Parika has problems

Dear Editor, Parika Stelling is very congested. There is a big, wide, rotten hole on the wharf 40×40, with lots of old wood around the place where vehicles park.

Prisoners responded in context of presidential pardons

Dear Editor, Disregard for one moment the messenger and consider the message: Accepting that self-preservation is nature’s first law, what would have changed in the last eight years that would have made the prisoners respond in the way they did some three days ago and, equally important, having seen the consequences of that response, ie, 17 dead and scores of others injured, why would the response be repeated the next day, knowing that the assumed risk is fatal.

It would be a policy mistake to reallocate house lots

Dear Editor, There has been a public outcry since Junior Minister of Communities Valerie Patterson said in her interview with Demerara Waves “We are coming after you,” threatening those who were allocated house lots but who haven’t built on them that she will confiscate them.

We have to be honest with ourselves

Dear Editor, I have long come to the conclusion that there is a hard-core segment of Guyanese society, predominantly African Guyanese, that would never under any circumstances come to grips with the fact that the PNC and its founder-leader, Mr Forbes Burnham, committed grave excesses when they occupied the seat of government.

Transfer an officer from the Police Force to help reform the Prison Service

Dear Editor, When I saw a senior medical staff member at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation on television implying that the prisoners who suffered burns should not have been taken immediately to the hospital without first being examined by medical personnel at the Georgetown Prison infirmary, I remembered my First Aid instructions as a young police recruit.

Amused by Politikles

Dear Editor, I was so amused by ‘Politikles’ that it caused me to make an off-the-cuff mini-resolution to keep track of the artistry, insight and wit of our unmatched cartoonist, Mr P Harris.

Untimely media

Dear Editor, It is sad that in this modern age we have to depend on the social media for a report on the prison fire where we are learning that 17 inmates are dead and others severely injured.

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