Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Now the dust from the UG-Hugh Wooding Law School sandstorm has temporarily settled, it behooves me as a quondam participant in the recurrent imbroglio to set the record straight based on historical reflections.

Dear Editor, I attended the ‘National Conversation on a Clean Guyana’ on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at the Amerindian Village, Sophia Exhibition Site.

Dear Editor, Since the Christian leader’s anti-gay comments, only one person has come out and expressed condemnation and dissatisfaction.

Dear Editor, As June 30 approaches I have to search for several thousand dollars to pay city taxes for the third quarter.

Dear Editor, Guyanese are on Facebook and Twitter and many read letters in the newspapers.

Dear Editor, The funniest of story coming out of Guyana was to read about a reporter who quit his/her job in 2012 just after receiving a supposedly rare British Guiana 1832 coin from the owner, and was then pressured into returning the coin.

Dear Editor, Those who should be concerned would wish to know that in a conversation on Dr Grantley Walrond’s ‘Spotlight’ on Thursday, June 19, 2014, the interviewees, Dr Pat Francis and Dr Mellissa Ifill of the University of Guyana, revealed they welcomed the news that the administration had approved raising the retirement age of lecturers (and presumably other categories of staff) from sixty years to sixty-five years.

Dear Editor On Tuesday, June 17, I had the opportunity to visit the National Assembly as part of the four-week Blue CAPS’ Building Communities through Leadership Training & Service (BCLTS) programme.

Dear Editor, With reference to the letter penned by Mr Roshan Khan which was published on Wednesday, June 18, 2014 in Kaieteur News captioned ‘GPL Main Street – a definite nightmare worse than the US Embassy’ and in Stabroek News on the same date titled ‘It is easier to get a visa from the US Embassy than service from GPL,’ the Guyana Power and Light Inc wishes to state the following.

Dear Editor, I would like to make a special appeal to the Canadian High Commission in Guyana and, to an extent the Government of Canada, to establish a visa centre here, where interviews can be done.

Dear Editor, It has been reported that 25 graduates of the class of 2014 from the University of Guyana (UG) have eventually been cleared and granted automatic placement at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), University of the West Indies (UWI) at St Augustine Campus after financial and other modalities have been negotiated and cleared by Guyana’s Attorney General.

Dear Editor, These days when the pages of the Guyana papers, certainly the internet versions, are filled with stories of political discord, intrigues and violence of all sorts, it is wonderful to wake up on a Sunday morning and read the heartwarming story of Jeremiah Bentham and his mother Ihebaa (‘Mother’s support reason for NGSA success,’ Sunday Stabroek, June 22).

Dear Editor, Your editorial of Saturday, June 21, 2014, ‘The circus on our roads’ was as timely as it was pointed.

Dear Editor, The ruling regime’s ongoing indifference to the major problem of suicide continues to cost lives.

Dear Editor, There is one bright spot in Guyana’s political and law-making system that must be fought for – our Parliament.

Dear Editor, Our great son of the Caribbean, Grenada-born economist and former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Sir Meredith Alister McIntyre said that, “The idea of integration is the most persuasive idea in developmental policy since the Second World War.”

Dear Editor, In a nation where professional first responders and referrals relating to suicide prevention are very few and far between and where cost becomes a deterrent, faith based associations can play a critical role, especially given that most Guyanese subscribe to one religion or another.

Dear Editor, It is my belief that only when there is a fatal accident on the West Bank Demerara public road will something be done about its seriously deteriorated state.

Dear Editor, We would like to add to Gokarran Sukhdeo’s letter ( ‘Green and the PPP are the problem not the solution,’ SN, June 14) in addressing the issue of Hamilton Green as raised by Dr Dolly Hassan in her letter in SN, June 11, titled, ‘The PNC should concede that certain mistakes were made during its tenure.’

Dear Editor, One wonders what it would take for the authorities responsible for impounding stray cattle to respond to, and prevent a large herd of cattle and horses from destroying taxpayers’ properties, bridges and fences in the Success and Chateau Margot communities.