Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, What does it say about a nation when the first thing offered to those arriving to its shores is alcohol?

 Dear Editor, As an individual who drives to work on a daily basis from Mahaica to George-town, please allow me to highlight my observations and the dangers posed to law-abiding drivers by some uncouth, unscrupulous and just disgusting minibus and hire care drivers.

Dear Editor,   “But let me make our position clear on this issue.

Dear Editor,   The Sunday Stabroek’s April 13 editorial ‘Vulgarity,’ is timely, and hopefully enough of our leaders everywhere would read it, digest it, then turn away to do all things necessary to arrest this sad decline taking place in our highest forum. 

Dear Editor,   Mark Da Costa in his letter in the Stabroek News of April 10 captioned ‘The PPP is a perversion of Dr.

Dear Editor, As over fifteen thousand of the nation’s pupils prepare to write the National Grade Six Assessment, it is fitting that we should address some of the related concerns surrounding the assessment and its perceived or real implications vis-à-vis education in Guyana in general. 

Dear Editor, The North Rupununi District Development Board is a fully autonomous Amerindian NGO that has no political, religious or other institutional affiliation. 

Dear Editor, As Guyanese endure a 38% increase in gun related robberies, a 37% rise in murders, reports of a kidnapping and the failure of the judicial system to effectively prosecute offenders, we cannot avoid wondering how our anti-crime tax dollars are being used.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News of Tuesday April 15, 2014, under the heading ‘Confusion rages over anti-kidnapping unit,’ in order to clarify what acting Commissioner of Police Mr Seelall Persaud, actually said.

Dear Editor, There are two roads in Golden Grove and Nabaclis which are in dire need of urgent repairs.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to say to some of our very learned radio and television announcers and reporters that ever since I was a kid attending school, I was taught about the twenty-four hour day.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News’ position that the “fight against the use of the global financial network for criminal activities is as effective as the weakest link in this chain of effort,” succinctly captures the crux of Guyana’s problem which is again being manifested around the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill (AML/CFT). 

Dear Editor,   It is with great concern that I pen this letter to you.  

Dear Editor, In all fairness to former President Jagdeo, I am of the view that he recognized the critical weaknesses, vulnerabilities and fears of Guyanese and orchestrated a cunning plot to not only divide and rule the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) but also our country. 

Dear Editor, The People`s Progressive Party General Secretary Clement Rohee is quoted in the media as describing the actions of the combined opposition of voting against the allocation of $1.1B for an “Amerindian Develop-ment Fund,” as callous and vindictive saying that it represents a brutal assault on our Amerindian citizens.

Dear Editor,         I am seventeen years old and I live in Danielstown on the Essequibo Coast.

Dear Editor, Many persons stopped me on the road this past week to get my take on the fact that the combined opposition in Parliament has disapproved of the $1.1B set aside in the 2014 Budget for Amerindian Development.

Dear Editor, Another Guyanese-born judge has delivered an important decision against a Belize minister of government which will be a blow to the Dean Barrow administration, since that administration has a razor-thin majority.

Dear Editor, It has been nearly six months since Stabroek News has banned me from posting on their blog.

Dear Editor, It is my understanding that this week the Ministry of Culture’s estimates are up for consideration before the Committee of Supply in the National Assembly.