Letters to the Editor

River taxis should remain permanently

Dear Editor,   Reference is made to the ongoing matter between the Berbice River Bridge Company Incorporated and the Govern-ment of Guyana, and also the concerns of the members of the Route 56 minibus service relative to the recently introduced water taxi service between New Amster-dam and Rosignol.  

Sense of pride

Dear Editor, I was filled with a sense of pride on Saturday, September 26, when I witnessed the Guyana Defence Force on a route march along the East Coast of Demerara.

Cricket is too important to be used as a proverbial football

Dear Editor, Mr Barton of the East Coast Cricket Board, in a recent retort to my suggestion that cricket clubs on the East Coast be told the truth, claimed that the East Coast Cricket Board and the East Coast Demerara Cricket Association are two names belonging to the same board and that the names are being used “interchangeably.”

Did Bravo and Pollard deserve their banishment?

Dear Editor, Since no one with the required information will explain why Bravo and Pollard are pariahs of WI one-day cricket, I will speculate publicly about the reason or reasons, and pose the question, whether they deserve their banishment.

Where will the checks and balances be in a national unity government?

Dear Editor, Last week I wrote on national uni-ty. The gravamen of my contention was expressed thus: “Though they may number in the hundreds, if not thousands, not one of those chanting the mantra of ‘national unity’, at least as far as I can recall, has taken the time and energy to articulate in a document for public scrutiny, what this concept connotes, how it can be achieved and how will it manifest itself practically, pragmatically and politically.”

A strange society

Dear Editor, This is a strange society; it is strange to the point of being upside down on several fronts.

We need to aim for high standards

Dear Editor, I have just returned to Guyana for the fourth time in ten years and as usual I am regularly asked the proverbial question, “So what do you think about Guyana?”

The end to the neglect of Linden came in 1992

Dear Editor, APNU+AFC Member of Parliament Audwyn Rutherford during his 2015 Budget speech in the National Assembly of Guyana made the following remarks: “Budget 2015 brings an end to the neglect of Linden”.

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