Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It is a smart move by the incumbent president of the United States of America Mr.

Dear Editor, Everywhere I travelled in recent weeks found people disenchanted with the APNU+AFC coalition.

Dear Editor, Many observers, including the government and the opposition PPP, framed the recent local government elections (LGE) as a referendum on the APNU+AFC coalition’s performance in government.

Dear Editor, US$4 million was spent on the spanking new Massy supermarket at Providence and your front page picture of March 18, of suited dignitaries walking through the well-stocked aisles also showcased Guyana’s pervasive illiteracy.

Dear Editor, I am a rice farmer and I do extensive seedling paddy cultivation in the community of Hague Settlement, which is located on the West Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, Mr Alfred Bhulai’s correspondence in Stabroek News on March 18, titled ‘Gecom ad contains errors’, is one of the many examples of the rhetoric articulated around local government elections (LGE).

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan’s letter titled ‘The mayorship is not a mostly ceremonial position’ (SN, March 18).

Dear Editor, It was very nice that several rice farmers from Huis’t Dieren in Region 2, including myself, were consulted at a public forum about the bad state of a koker with a concrete base and wooden walls, sited in a dual purpose trench alongside the school dam in the backlands.

Dear Editor,   I had a most shocking and humiliating experience recently with Mr Dennis Jaikarran, Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Three.

Dear Editor, I was pleased to read a letter by M Alves ‘Why doesn’t Guyana use roundabouts?’

Dear Editor, A friend of mine shared the following extract from a BBC report featuring amazing lessons in governance which are especially noteworthy for poor third world countries like Guyana.

Dear Editor, Mr Rashleigh Jackson is at his mischief again. He has written before reflecting similar sentiments albeit from different angles.

Dear Editor, I thank Clinton Urling for contributing to the discourse on local government by penning a letter published under the caption, ‘New system needed where Mayor directly elected,’ (SN, March 14).

Dear Editor, The construction projects on the East Bank and East Coast show good foresight, given the projected swell in traffic in the near future.

Dear Editor, The Gecom advertisement illustrating the voting process, published several times recently in your newspaper, contains errors that are inconsistent with the logistics of smooth voting.

Dear Editor, Most of those reading this letter who live in Guyana are probably still undecided as to whom they should vote for in the local government elections (LGE).

Dear Editor, Tacuma Oguyseye castigated Hamilton Green on his distorted letter about Walter Rodney (see, ‘Green misrepresented the facts surrounding Rodney’s assassination’, SN, March 15).

Dear Editor, Politics aside, children really are the future for our nation.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC government has determined that the allocation of central government resources to the regional democratic councils, municipalities and neighbourhood democratic councils should be a function of their political support of the government.

Dear Editor, Help & Shelter calls on the APNU+AFC coalition to immediately remove Winston Harding as their candidate for the first past the post seat in Constituency 13 (East and West Ruimveldt) in view of the fact that he has been repeatedly charged with child sexual abuse as reported in Stabroek News of 16 March, 2016.