Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I refer to Pastor WP Jeffrey’s letter, ‘It is difficult for overseas Guyanese offering skills to break into the inner circle of bureaucracy’ (SN, January 1).

Dear Editor, Management would like to thank Messrs Sahadeo Bates and George Daniels for expressing their concerns about the services offered by the airport’s Red Cap porters and taxi drivers.

Dear Editor The media on January 6 and 7, reported on the case of a 20 or 21-year-old man and 14-year-old girl who were found dead in East Berbice.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to an article written by Mr B Balkarran which was published in the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News on Thursday, January 7, in relation to co-operatives in Guyana (‘The enquiry into coops should start at head office’ SN, Jan 7).

Dear Editor, I write in relation to a self-imposed mandate that is arbitrarily being applied by various government and other agencies, including GPL, GRA, GT&T, NIS, etc.

Dear Editor, In a news article of January 5, it was reported that Bharrat Jagdeo, former President of Guyana and now Leader of the Opposition has warned that his party will oppose any move to privatize the sugar industry (GuySuCo).

Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate the Critchlow Labour College administration for bringing off their graduation exercises after a hiatus.

Dear Editor, Governments will always begin with good intentions and they will always manage to turn some of these good intentions into actions which contain some good.

Dear Editor, The recent public disclosures by the union GAWU as to the authenticity of data pertaining to sugar workers’ earnings, as contained in the released findings of the GuySuCo Commission of Inquiry (CoI), raises many doubts about the credibility and objectivity of the CoI.

Dear Editor, I was given a special invitation by the Prime Minister’s office to attend the commissioning of the Lima pump at 11am and to attend a special meeting with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder at 1.30 pm on January 4, at State House to discuss the way forward with rice production and agriculture in Region Two.

Dear Editor, I am convinced more and more every day that my desire to see an inaugural ex-offender rehabilitation centre established in Guyana is rooted in logic and basic common sense.

Dear Editor, As a youth of the Alliance For Change, I would like to take this opportunity to give my unequivocal support to the private member’s bill brought to the National Assembly entitled ‘An Act to amend the Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Act 1988’ (Bill No 17, 2015).

Dear Editor,   Independence found me a mere child. This infant nation and I started out together, except I left her, abandoned her, for some three decades and counting.

Dear Editor, The report emanating from the GuySuCo Commission of Inquiry (CoI), and which was recently tabled in parliament clearly suggests that privatisation is the way to go.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to an article that appeared in your edition of Monday, January 4 captioned ‘Hydronie NDC head insists that inferior material used on road.’

Dear Editor, With the Skeldon factory mentioned again in the newspaper, I was musing over similar experiences shared by Mr Burnham and Mr Jagdeo with regard to failed projects built by Chinese contractors.

Dear Editor, I make reference to the article captioned ‘Unsettled weather not a factor in sugar decline’ in your January 6 edition, and note with disbelief the GuySuCo Commission of Inquiry in its report stating that “unsettled weather has not been a factor in the ‘precipitate’ decline in cane yields and sugar output, rather it has been a case of a shortage of cash and poor agricultural practices”.

Dear Editor, I was very pleased to read of the government’s plan for recreational and landscaping projects for the foreshore between the Kitty Pump Station and Round House behind the Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I have never forgotten my friend and colleague Abdul Baksh mimicking the most famous Indian cricket commentator of his day, Berry Sarbadhikari announcing: “Here comes Ramchand.

Dear Editor, Many people as well as co-op societies supported Minister Simona Broomes’ call for an inquiry into co-op societies.