Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I agree with the view that the holding of Local Government elections is long overdue.

Dear Editor, When people die, we owe it to history to record what they tell us.

Dear Editor, Most people tell me that my wife `do me’ (work obeah on me) because of the way I love and treat her.

Dear Editor, As far as I can recall, speaking against wrongs would sometimes get me into problems which ended up with me being assaulted and being admitted at the hospital once, charged and hauled before the Court once, making enemies and almost getting into fights.

Dear Editor,   Please allow me space in your column to offer my views on a statement made by His Excellency, President Donald Ramotar on the poor rate of conviction of persons charged (SN, April 25, 2014 ‘Ramotar raps cops over poor conviction rate’) It would seem as though His Excellency is surprised at the dismal rate of conviction.

Dear Editor, Prominent Senior Counsel, Ralph Ramkarran, and several prominent legal luminaries in the region are calling for the abolishment of jury trials.

Dear Editor, There is something electrifying about the rise of Narendra Modi from the son of a tea seller to most likely the next Prime Minister of the world largest democracy.

Dear Editor, Having read the various news reports on the situation involving both Samuel Elvis and Alex Griffith, I am touched and concerned about the horrific circumstances that joined them in that they have suffered serious injuries at the hands of experienced police officers in circumstances that do require a full, fair and impartial investigation.

Dear Editor, To cut to the chase -in his previous letter (`There is a fundamental difference between what obtained under the PNC and what exists now under the PPP/C’ (SN: 18/04/2014)), Mr.

Dear Editor,   Mr. Christopher Ram’s letter titled `Stats Bureau should be doing far more to explain questionable GDP numbers’ (SN, May 8, 2014) highlights some critical questions about the determination of important national statistical markers and information.

Dear Editor, I am normally hesitant, these days, to comment on anything associated with Guyana bauxite.

Dear Editor,   Permit me to respond to a letter in your Wednesday’s edition of the Stabroek News titled `Authorities need to do more about workplace accidents’ by Mr.

Dear Editor, We must assume that journalistic pride will introduce fairness in the state-controlled media that has over the past few days been critical of the Mayor and Councillors for hindering the purported acting Town Clerk from mobilizing money because they, the Mayor et al, frustrated her unauthorized foray to extract money from poor people for a spot to fly their kites, picnic or sell a few things on Easter Monday.

Dear Editor, There can be little surprise at the organisational contortions recently dispersed by those described as decision-makers.

Dear Editor, Lawrence Theodore Williams was an exception, one of a fast dwindling remnant of Guyanese.

Dear Editor, Racism. The decision by the Spanish Police to detain a Villarreal supporter who it is alleged threw a banana at a player as a racist taunt, and the action taken by the NBA to ban the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers for racist comments, is most wonderful.

Dear Editor, President Ramotar’s remarks at the Europe Day reception on May 7, left me disappointed, confused and extremely puzzled.

Dear Editor,   It was refreshing to see the letter by Chief Statistician Mr.

Dear Editor, `Magistrate orders man to split house’, that was the headline in the Stabroek News of April 14th.

Dear Editor,   This is Guyana and we must never lose sight of the fact that this is a very wet country and that if we get a break from the weather it’s good luck and not the norm and we must be careful what conclusions we draw from it.