Dear Editor, Please permit me to compliment Minister of Social Cohesion Amna Ally, in congratulating the residents of De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara, for having a bridge constructed thus enabling schoolchildren easy access to their school.
Dear Editor, The government’s mouthpiece, the Guyana Chronicle, stated on August 14, 2015 that the Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform was established with attorney Nigel Hughes as convener (‘Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform established -Attorney Nigel Hughes is convenor’).
Dear Editor, Having traversed over 90% of the major and intermediate roads in this country, including the hinterland over the years, I have grown accustomed to the rude, disrespectful and uncouth manner in which passengers are treated when there is no alternative to the minibuses.
Dear Editor, I read Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s letter published on December 3rd 2015, in the Stabroek News, in response to mine (‘Was Nandlall “flummoxed” by the Duke Street sale?’).
Dear Editor, I understand through the dailies that there is an initiative to rename fifty streets in Georgetown in anticipation of fifty years of independence.
Dear Editor, Surely the time is long overdue to rename the Guyana Prize for Literature the Dabydeen Prize.
Dear Editor, By now it is apparent that when Guyanese go big they really go big, what with our high suicide rate, our high maternal and neonatal mortality rate, our high road fatality rate, our high incidence of gun related crimes and now our high femicide/uxoricide rate.
Dear Editor, Much has been said about the recent spate of suicides in Guyana, with many commentators speculating about whether or not any one ethnic group or social class is predisposed to such a terrifying end.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) wishes to the address the concerns raised by Rev Gideon Cecil in his letter to the Stabroek News on December 2, 2015, captioned, ‘Overseas mail is always opened.’
Dear Editor, The reported move by Ivy league universities, Harvard and Princeton, to discontinue use of the title ‘Master’ as in ‘Master of the Residential College,’ instead of ‘Head of the College,’ on the grounds that terms like ‘Master’ are too poignant reminders of the distasteful history of slavery, is quite interesting.
Dear Editor, Here’s an interesting piece: A recently elected Prime Minister is coming under fire for using public money to pay for nannies to look after his children.
Dear Editor, In his letter in the Stabroek News of November 16, Pandit Haresh Tewari is correct in pointing out that I was wrong to describe the Ramayan as a myth, and I apologize for that.
Dear Editor, It is amazing how the birth of a child can trigger global attention.
Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr Abu Bakr’s letter ‘Has been looking at suicide phenomenon for years’ (SN, Nov 26) wherein he incorrectly concludes that Vishnu Bisram stated “[Bakr has] no right to explore the implications of the call by Dr [Baytoram] Ramharack for more activism by more Indian intellectuals.”
Dear Editor, We claim to be free from colonialism and that we are an independent country, but every day and in every way, we still demonstrate the politics and economics of colonial influences.
Dear Editor, Two developments caught my attention recently. Both brought a chuckle on the way things are in Guyana.
Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Anil Nandlall’s letter (‘The government cannot avoid the provisions of the Procurement Act’ SN, December 1)) in which he sets out in extenso the provisions of the Procurement Act in order to “prove” that I was wrong in defending the government’s action by signing an MOU with Fedders Lloyd without another tender process, and asserting that such a process was to Guyana’s disadvantage.
Dear Editor, In recently saw a picture in the Guyana Chronicle which shows sand weighing around 1800 lbs per square foot that has been dumped by the owners of Celina Atlantic over the existing sea defences below, to continue their illegal expansion of the resort.
Dear Editor, I read Narissa Deokarran’s letter complaining about severe pollution fumes (‘NDC will not deal with health hazard of air pollution’ SN, Nov 30) and saw your follow-up report in ‘Lusignan resident seeking relief from neighbour’s fireside fumes’ (SN, Dec 2).
Dear Editor, That Carifesta X would come up for an enquiry is no surprise.
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