Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,   By the publication of Ministerial Order No 17 of 2014, the Official Gazette of April 30, 2014 announced the coming into operation from that date of the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority Act 2013.

Dear Editor, It was with great consternation that I have read in the Stabroek News (June 9, 2014), a statement attributed to Pastor Ronald McGarrell to the effect that, “homosexuals and other persons with alternative sexual orientation should reside on an island by themselves.”

Dear Editor,   The current Commission of Inquiry into the death of WPA’s Walter Rodney, 34 years ago, has aroused passionate responses from the range of its ‘witnesses’ as well as other observers.

Dear Editor, The WICB, in retaliation against the Cricket Administration Bill, pulled the third Test match from Guyana.

Dear Editor, The call by Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer for a joint referendum of the OECS states to seek the green light from electorates to join the appellate jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has raised eyebrows.

Dear Editor,   I read, with bemused interest and not a small amount of disdain, the article ‘Culture Ministry hands over Guyana Classics to libraries’ (SN, June 6).

Dear Editor,   I was delighted when I met David Granger for the first time in Richmond Hill Queens, New York.

Dear Editor, It is amazing the way people use your rights without your permission in this country, and you can’t stop them even if you call the police or you go to court.

Dear Editor, In light of the Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI) and recent talks in the blogs and letter columns of the need for the PNC to apologise, please allow us – two relatively young people – to share our experiences growing up under the PNC of Mr Desmond Hoyte.

Dear Editor,   Mike Persaud has gotten a lot of heat from some Guyanese for hosting Mr David Granger in Richmond Hill, NY.  

Dear Editor, I am writing about the land-filled road at the Eccles dumpsite.

Dear Editor, I am glad you are advertising for a proofreader.

Dear Editor, I have been following the general coverage, including that of your newspaper, relating to the cricket impasse and the ultimate removal of the third Test match scheduled for Guyana later this month between the West Indies Cricket Team and New Zealand.

Dear Editor, Every passing day, I read the news of our leaders’ failure to compromise for the good of our nation; I read column upon column of bitterness and divisiveness; I read discourses that involve ‘cuss outs’ which are not based on reasoned logical debates; and I read of the opinions of our older leaders who operate as if only they have all the solutions for Guyana.

Dear Editor, “Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader” -Harry Truman.

Dear Editor, I refer to an article in KN dated June 1 on drainage pumps and I would like to enquire from the Ministry of Agriculture whatever happened to the 40 odd pumps with discharge pipes outlets purchased in 1974 by the Hydraulics Division?

Dear Editor, I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations to the Team Guyana (Queen Street Tiger Bay) for their stellar performance at this year’s Guinness Caribbean Street Football Tournament in Trinidad and Tobago.

Dear Editor, There is a public invitation in the Sunday Chronicle of June 8, 2014 to the First Assembly of God Men’s Conference which has a theme ‘Retaking the man’s position of influence.’

Dear Editor, I recently read a news article in which President Ramotar was quoted as saying that “Only someone who is mad or has another agenda will oppose a specialty hospital when you [have] cancer killing so many people in our society, heart disease and so forth killing…people.”

Dear Editor, It is becoming increasingly evident that experience in an extremely vertical structure of military-style organisations, does not allow opportunity for effective decision-making, particularly in small developing countries like Guyana, where there have been few situations which have challenged the decision-making capability of that organization, or inspired the concept of consensuality and the practice of teamwork.