Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The figures quoted below are extracted from the 2015 Estimates approved in the recent Parliament.

Dear Editor, Sometime during the early hours of Saturday 3rd October a drunk driver knocked down and ran over a beautiful chestnut colt in a residential area of the city.

Dear Editor, It is World Teacher’s Day today. The United Nations’ Organisation has since 1994 set aside October 5 to commemorate the work of teachers and the organisations that represent them in their efforts to provide quality education.

Dear Editor, Wow! Wow! It is amazing how life can get interesting for a person and a people.

Dear Editor, With the accession to power of an administration demonstrably committed to governance based on the rule of law, loyal Guyanese are anticipating with bated breath a spate of tortious actions against public officials by the Attorney General for malfeasance in public office.

Dear Editor Recent letters and statements in the press on the condition and possible fate of GuySuCo, encouraged me to participate in a recent Moray House seminar on the sugar industry.

Dear Editor, I was born in the Caribbean and spent the first nineteen years of my life there.

Dear Editor, I read your news article headlined ‘Caricom foreign ministers non-committal on Guyana’s call for juridical settlement of Venezuela controversy’ published in your Thursday, October 2, edition.

Dear Editor, If I recall correctly we were told by a former Senior Minister of Education that about 10,000 functional illiterates leave our school system annually.

Dear Editor, I had an experience at Republic Bank Guyana recently that left me puzzled, confused and wondering who creates the policies at that bank.

Dear Editor, The EFG will be conducting its first general Neurology/Epilepsy training mission, from October 2-14, 2015.

Dear Editor,   I read with a great sense of enthusiasm the letter published in Stabroek News dated October 1, bearing the caption, ‘PPP besmirched Ministry of Public Infrastructure,’ which was written by the Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson.

Dear Editor,   Amidst its multiple competing priorities, I recommend that this personal wish list could become early, if not immediate, ‘To Do’ priorities for government people and agencies.

Dear Editor, Few would have heard of, or remembered, and possibly fewer would care about the fact that 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of the National Personnel Officers’ Association (NPOA).

Dear Editor,   Having read in our local newspapers recently about the deplorable state of the Transport & Harbours Department vessels, the dry docking plans, government’s plan to charter a vessel to ply the North West District Service and build two vessels in India, I wish to make the following comments and suggestions: In relation to the state of the vessels, while admittedly some of these vessels are very old, having been constructed more than sixty years ago in the United Kingdom, the reason for the current state of disrepair has to be as a result of the lack of routine ship husbandry and scheduled dry docking in accordance with well-established principles and practices.

Dear Editor, I’m writing in order to get a reduction in the price that I paid for my house lot located in what is popularly known as the Remigrant Scheme in Providence.

Dear Editor, Flight BW 903 arrived at the Piarco Airport from London just after 5pm on Wednesday, September 30th, 2015.

Dear Editor, The advertisement of the Terms of Reference given to the current Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service mentions, amongst others, the massive task of ‘fixing’ salaries and benefits.

Dear Editor, It is something we are used to seeing in Guyana which would be unacceptable elsewhere in the world – bald tyres on vehicles, especially minibuses.

Dear Editor, In the final paragraph of your article on page 11 of yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News captioned “‘Fresh start” GPSU wants cops, soldiers unionised’ it was reported, “Among the government members present were Minister of State Joseph Harmon, Broomes, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and Minister of Social Cohesion Amna Ally.”