Letters to the Editor

Dear Editors,   I refer to an article in the Stabroek News of Tuesday July 28 headlined ‘Roopnaraine promises to work with WICB to find a solution.’

Dear Editor,   Prior to the election of a new executive of the Guyana Press Association (GPA) in March this year, news had circulated of a culture of abuse entrenched in a local newsroom.

Dear Editor, Accusations are mounting against a farmer in Region 2 for violating the law by cutting the canal dam to drain his some 50 acres of a virgin plot in the backlands of the Middlesex-Vilvoorden area.

Dear Editor,   The APNU+AFC continues to dabble in semantics as the government seeks to create the impression that they have a plan for hinterland development which is different from and better than anything the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic government ever had in place.

Dear Editor,   Allow me to compliment you and your publisher for making it possible for ordinary citizens to get their views across to the wider population and to the wheelers and dealers in the corridors of power.

Dear Editor,   Reading the news story in yesterday’s SN on Rawle Lucas’s testimony before the Parvatan Commission of Inquiry into the sugar industry, I note that Lucas is really calling for a shut-down and not a phase-out of the industry.

Dear Editor, While government lawmakers in Guyana are demanding prosecution for any officials who were guilty of malfeasance under the PPP/C government, the acting Attorney General of the US Virgin Islands has charged former Governor John de Jongh Jr of embezzlement involving nearly half a million dollars.

Dear Editor,   When I wrote the following comments in 2013, I could hardly have had a clue as to their being prophetic enough to relate as closely as they did to some of the remarks the Minister of Finance made in a very informative interview conducted on Channel 11, on Tuesday evening, August 11.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned ‘Ramjattan implores PPP to cease promoting ethnic division –says it will do no good for Guyana’ (KN, August 20).

Dear Editor,   Kindly permit me to offer a brief response to two recent letters written by Mr Leon Rockcliffe and Mr Christopher Ram, respectively, in which they sought to address the issue of the legality of the appointment of Ms Rosalie Robertson as the new Registrar of Lands (‘Government should urgently amend the Land Registry Act’ SN, August 15; ‘A Registrar of Lands has been appointed without any amendment to the Land Registry Act’ SN, August 16).

Dear Editor,   I am most enthused by the renewed interest which is being placed on the issue of cyber security, and moreso, the recognition of the need for relevant mechanisms to tackle the growing cyber-threats in Guyana.

Dear Editor,   Please for some space to thank the organisers of the Festival of Flowers which was held at the Brickdam Cathedral on Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th August, 2015.

Dear Editor,   Since the announcement on July 24 of Gayle`s intention to undergo surgery, a cricket fan would need to do major ‘research’ to find out what has happened to him medically.

Dear Editor,   Like so many viewers and listeners one could not help but empathise with the thrust of the budget presentation for 2015 by the newly christened Minister of Finance, Mr Winston Jordan.

Dear Editor, I am responding to Mr F Hamley Case’s letter of August 18 on President Cheddi Jagan and the Unamco story in response to one of my columns.

Dear Editor,   Further to a commentary I penned (SN, Aug 9) comparing aspects of politics in Sri Lanka and Guyana, the former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa has failed in his attempt to make a political comeback.

Dear Editor,   All the daily papers publish on a regular basis reports of political events, and explanations accompany these articles seeking to justify the claims made.

Dear Editor,   I had friends and relatives from Guyana visiting.

Dear Editor,   Mr Christopher Ram’s castigation of the Minister of Governance Mr Raphael Trotman ‒ ‘Minister Trotman’s statements on the Rodney Commission of Inquiry were outrageous,’ SN, August 3 ‒ was pointed; the attorney wasn’t pulling punches.

Dear Editor, In an earlier submission I had alluded to the increase in the number and variety of ‘contracted employees’ employed over the five-year period 2009-2013.