Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Budgets are now in place, but it is not too early to take a look at developmental opportunities for the future.

Dear Editor, Some unscrupulous house owners in the area around the UG campus are ripping off poor parents from the countryside by charging exorbitant rents for lodging alone for their children who cannot be provided with accommodation at the dorms.

Dear Editor, A letter from Ray Chickrie in you edition of August 26 highlights a discomfiture all Guyanese passport holders suffer.

Dear Editor, After 24 hours of travelling, I literally just got off the big (slow) boat from Georgetown to Port Kaituma via the brutal and challenging Atlantic Ocean, when I opened the newspaper.

Dear Editor, Clement Rohee, General Secretary of the PPP/C in one of his media briefings had said that when his party entered parliament for the budget debate their engagement would be unprecedented.

Dear Editor, As Mining Month concludes, the recent announcement of a mining court and a magistrate to deal specifically with mining related issues by the government is most welcome, and a step in the right direction.

Dear Editor, I am a licensed vehicle driver who has been driving vehicles for 58 years and has driven on all our coastal roads, inclusive of the Linden Soesdyke Highway, Region One road at Mabaruma and 72 Miles Potaro road in Region 7.

Dear Editor, My light bill for the month of August has strangely taken on some new colours.

Dear Editor, I am suggesting that the government make arrangements to hold local government elections as well as a referendum on the two-term presidential limit on the same day.

Dear Editor, 1) President Granger’s new ten point strategic plan for hinterland development speaks, inter alia, of a Hinterland and Indigenous People Lands Commission and Hinterland Language Cultural and Sport Service, as if the Peoples Progressive Party had neglected these very important areas of hinterland development.

Dear Editor, I write to correct the misrepresentations made by the Mrs Gillian Burton Persaud during her contribution to the 2015 Budget debate.

Dear Editor, It was not without some ambivalence that we read in Stabroek, August 25, another story on suicide in Guyana ‒ ‘NGOs craft suicide action plan’.

Dear Editor, It is with some sadness that I learned of the death of my former Sacred Heart teacher Francis Arokium in Canada this week.

Dear Editor, The Soesdyke/ Coverden Neighbourhood Democratic Council through its Chairman Mr Aaron Grant-Stuart placed a disposal bin at the northern end of Soesdyke with the concurrence of the Overseer.

Dear Editor, Africa again has caught the attention of hungry investors from China, India, Brazil, Arabia and Turkey.

Dear Editor, The sudden rise of crime in our country is now a concern for all Guyanese citizens, and the re-introduction of long hours of daily blackouts makes it easier for thieves and criminals to escape from the police and citizens.

Dear Editor, From casual observers to serious analysts recent months have provided lessons in the deconstruction of some organisations; the reconstruction of others; then again the creation of semblances of organization ‒ and possibly beyond.

Dear Editor, It is with great pleasure I express my congratulations to the students of the Hindu College, Cove and John, ECD, who sat the May/June CSEC examinations, and to all the hard-working and dedicated teachers and cooperative parents.

Dear Editor, I write this letter to put another side, (my side, which the public might have been expecting) on the dissensions at the top of GPL, which were being disclosed and discussed in the media.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) wishes to acknowledge the concerns expressed in Mr E B John’s letter published in the August 22, 2015, edition of the Stabroek News captioned, ‘Lack of timeliness in pension delivery evidence of chronic inefficiency within GPOC.’