Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The local government elections are over, and as one analyses the results and feedback from the electorate throughout Guyana, it is evident that our country is racially divided and the larger parties won because people voted solidly along ethnic lines or out of party loyalty, and not because the parties had better representatives or programmes.

Dear Editor, The recent local government elections, despite a relatively low voter turnout, have demonstrated in no uncertain terms that voting behaviour remains basically the same with the two main parties, namely the PPP/C and the APNU+AFC dominating the electoral space.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter published in Kaieteur News of March 18, captioned ‘UG and Vincent Alexander have been cruel to us’ by Sheik Mustapha.

Dear Editor, The points raised in Frank Fyffe’s letter captioned ‘How do we prevent the minds of our children from being polluted?’

Dear Editor, Now that President Obama has taken the daring and statesmanlike stand of visiting the friendly communist island of Cuba with his lovely family he should do likewise as soon as he gets back at his Oval Office desk, by fearlessly and boldly withdrawing America’s illegal grip on Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay as it belongs to the Cuban people.

Dear Editor, Regarding recent commentaries on suicide, I conducted an opinion survey earlier this month that interviewed people from all walks of life.

Dear Editor,  To the best of my knowledge the term sub-association was abandoned way back in 1999, if my memory serves me correctly, and was removed from the Constitution and Statutes of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF).

Dear Editor, The year 2016, will be remembered for the BoIs and CoIs: Dr Walter Rodney, mining accidents, allegations against CANU members, incarceration of a ten-year-old ‒ you name it, there is always the likelihood that one or another maybe commissioned for any event, including those which may have occurred decades ago.

Dear Editor, In an SN letter of March 20, Mr Ganga Persaud, a rice farmer from Hague on the West Coast of Demerara, claimed that GuySuCo has been hogging the available irrigation water from the Boerasirie Conservancy to the detriment of other users.

Dear Editor, I write in connection with what is senselessly being perpetrated on hapless motorists on the East Bank of Demerara by policemen. 

Dear Editor, I am a regular visitor to the Amerindian Hostel in Princes Street Georgetown.

Dear Editor, India receives the world’s highest amount of remittances from its diaspora.

Dear Editor, I am pleased that I did not hear the voice of Mark Nicholas in either of the two games that WI won to put them in a very strong position in their division in the World Cup competition.

Dear Editor, The  government should be given credit for calling local government elections one year after assuming office.

Dear Editor, United States President Barack Obama has created history by becoming the first sitting President of the United States to visit Cuba since the 1959 revolution which brought Fidel Castro to power.

Dear Editor, This year Guyana celebrates its 50th anniversary since attaining political independence in 1966.

Dear Editor, Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s position that he is guided by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) position on the issue of wages and salaries for public sector workers cannot be allowed to go unnoticed.

Dear Editor, March 18th 2016 will be chronicled in our history books as the return of local government elections.

Dear Editor, I really appreciate the activism of Lincoln Lewis on the wage issues for the workers of Guyana; this man has been at the forefront of the struggle for workers’ rights for decades and ought to be justly recognised; even with a national award.

Dear Editor, It is worth noting the public division in the government on the matter of revoking the broadcast licences illegally handed out by former President Mr.