Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, There have been allegations that the credentials of the acting CEO of GPL are not appropriate for the post he holds.

Dear Editor, I have seen in the media where Dr Jagdeo was addressing the sugar workers in Wales, misleading the people that the coalition is deliberately creating hardship for the PPP supporters.

Dear Editor, Politicians make promises that they hardly keep; that is the essence of politics.

Dear Editor, There are these not infrequent public waltzes, or dramas, or spectacles between the Chambers of the DPP and the GPF.

Dear Editor, In an SN letter of Jan 19, Mohamed Khan drew attention to the lack of irrigation water to cultivate the 35,500 acres of rice lands in the Tapakuma Project, Region 2 (‘Water should have been pumped from the Pomeroon since last year…’).

Dear Editor, So they are going to bury Wales Estate. Wales holds special memories and a historical significance for me.

Dear Editor, Attempts to have dialogue with the Minister of Public Infrastructure have been fruitless even on the day of the week set aside to see members of the public.

Dear Editor, Like me, most Guyanese, here and abroad, must have been shocked when they opened the newspapers the day before yesterday and read that Wales Estate would be closed at the end of this year.

Dear Editor, It occurred to me to enquire what percentage of the population today was around at the time of independence in 1966, and can therefore fully grasp the meaning and esprit of that experience.

Dear Editor, After some eight months of taking up their portfolios, it is timely and reasonable to assess the performance and presence of some ministers.

Dear Editor, Let’s get something straight: tough financial decisions have to be made.

Dear Editor, In Friedrich Nietzsche’s work Thus Spoke Zarathustra he gives a metaphor that describes the evolution of a person from child to man.

Dear Editor, Restoring the nation’s capital city to its former pristine glory, as the Garden City is indeed an onerous task, with the disposal of tons of garbage on a daily basis, along with silt, mud and obstacles from the major drainage canals and debris from the parapet.

Dear Editor, As we now know, look for the words of the prophet between the raindrops.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to a letter published in the Stabroek News of Sunday, January 17, captioned ‘How could our legal system embrace such an obvious illegality for five years’, and in the Guyana Chronicle of Tuesday, January 19.

Dear Editor, As we head into local government elections, a request is hereby being made to Gecom or the relevant ministry to publish a map of the boundaries of the proposed new townships, especially Lethem.

Dear Editor, On numerous occasions in the past I have been forced to write on our sugar industry’s difficulties.

Dear Editor, Recently we saw again, another senseless murder of young Guyanese at a wedding house party in Albion, Corentyne, and perhaps it is time that the powers-that-be take a hard look at this out-of-control culture that has developed, particularly (but not exclusively) among the Indo-Guyanese community.

Dear Editor, I read with a deep sense of concern, in your edition of January 18, a statement, supposedly emanating from the Minister of Natural Resources in the article entitled ‘Bauxite output strong but industry battling depressed global prices, high costs.’

Dear Editor, Mr Ian McDonald in one of his many beautiful articles in the Sunday Stabroek, a few months ago, wrote about the tragedy of the death of a child in a vehicular accident; his article was haunting, and poignant.