Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Minister of Communities has noted with pleasure the interest that many Guyanese have shown in the role of local government, in the context of the upcoming local government (LGE) elections on March 18, 2016.

Dear Editor, I am a resident of the Laing Avenue Area.

Dear Editor, We learnt from several current press reports that the government is considering the legalizing and decriminalizing of the use and sale of marijuana for medicinal and personal purposes in Guyana.

Dear Editor, It has been quite some time now since I made an observation with respect to our national songs.

Dear Editor, Environmental science reveals that the manufacture and use of synthetic organic compounds such as insecticides, pesticides and plasticizers are commonplace worldwide.

Dear Editor West Indies, on tour in Australia for a three Test series, is without its most prolific run scorer Shivnarine Chanderpaul who has been left out of the team because of underperformance.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) wishes to assure the general public, more particularly the individual who penned a letter of concern in the December 3 edition of Stabroek News that fervent efforts are still being made to disburse refunds (‘Why is the GRA not paying refunds’).

Dear Editor, I took time off to read Commissioner Benn’s attempted response to my letter about the concocted, conflictual and hypocritical behaviour of Commissioners Benn, Shadick and Gunraj in their attempt to determine how Gecom should respond to Ganga Persaud’s Petition.

Dear Editor, While supporters of the ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) are celebrating Wednesday’s victory in St Vincent and the Grenadines, New Democratic Party (NDP) diehards are advocating that their leader Arnhim Eustace resign because he failed on four occasions to win an election.

Dear Editor, The bridge shown in the photo is located on the Industry access road between the Railway Embankment and the main East Coast highway.

Dear Editor, Our famous Guyanese singer Dave Martins recorded a song in which he asked “Where are your heroes, Caribbean, show them to me.”

Dear Editor, With respect to the appointment of Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards to act as Chief Justice there seems to be a continuation of the clouded role and responsibilities of both the President and the Leader of the Opposition.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Communities Mr Ronald Bulkan has announced March 18, 2016 as the date for the much anticipated and long overdue local government elections.

Dear Editor, I am a Guyanese and I love my Guyana, our Guyana, a place where we all can be One People, One Nation with the same Destiny, but I believe that our Guyana is riddled with untruths and distortions, and right is sometimes called wrong, and wrong judged as right.

Dear Editor, The Anna Catherina Islamic Complex (ACIC) and The Guyana United Sadr Islamic Anjuman (GUSIA) have joined the call for the establishment of schools-based counselling and have expressed their full support to the call coming from the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) for government to accept the proposal to utilize teachers within the public school system as school counsellors.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter titled ‘SN should publish contact details for small businesses’ written by Ms Jennifer Bulkan in your Tuesday, December 8 edition.

Dear Editor, We welcome the government’s initiative to review Christian prayers in public schools.

Dear Editor, While smog in Beijing is serious, it pales in comparison to the pea soup London smog events of 1952.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Malcolm Alves’s letter, ‘There should be a viable alternative before corporal punishment is abandoned’ (SN, December 7) in which he defends its use.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) said there was no wrongdoing by the board Chairman when he racked up a multi-million dollar food and drinks bill at the agency’s expense.