Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, A blackout on Friday, November 29 returned to paralyse the whole of Region Two from 7 am to 1am on November 30, and Essequibians are bracing themselves for more blackouts during the Christmas season.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, November 26, I ran into Francis Quamina Farrier at Stabroek Market whilst on my way to catch a minibus to go home that evening.

Dear Editor, As a boy growing up in Guyana in the 1970s, I took it for granted that my peers were either “bright” or “dunce.”

Dear Editor, The recent flooding in Georgetown and around the country has nothing to do with the vague warnings from the hydromet office, but total neglect and incompetence by the present administration.

Dear Editor, The weather is complicated. That is well known. It is also everybody’s business, as former Chief Hydro-meteorological Officer Dilip Jaigopaul often enunciated.

Dear Editor, A recent editorial in one of the printed dailies highlights a major reality.

Dear Editor, I refer to the statement made by President Ramotar to the effect that the Georgetown City Council is run by APNU; he blamed them for the floods on Wednesday November 27.

Dear Editor, I am told that the attendance at the second annual dinner of the Transparency Institute, Guyana held at the Pegasus Hotel on Friday evening, November 22, 2013, was an encouraging improvement over the first year’s engagement.

Dear Editor, When a small group of persons was called into the Ministry of Culture two years ago to produce a ‘national’ anthology of poetry under the Caribbean Press, my one caveat for offering my own work was that a call for entries be made via national advertisement, followed by developmental workshops, editorial guidance and then publication.

Dear Editor, The city is in an unacceptable condition, with garbage piled up in every community.

Dear Editor, Just when I think I am beyond shock at the acts of cruelty meted out to the animal population in Guyana I am proved wrong. 

Dear Editor, A press release of Sunday, May 12, 2013 adverted to the appointment of civilians to a newly established Department of Strategic Management, Guyana Police Force.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Bisram’s letter in SN of November 28, speculating on the future presidential candidate of the ruling PPP.

Dear Editor, As I write Georgetown is under a deluge of water and rubbish; in fact, it is the latter that is the cause for the inundation.

Dear Editor, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) in its 2011 Manifesto under its ‘Governance’ section outlining its commitment to “ending ‘winner-take-all politics’” says it will pursue “At Local Government level, reintroducing village councils, retaining Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) and Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs) and introducing constituency elections at the RDC and NDC and village levels with a provision for individuals to contest those elections and for lower tiers to be represented at higher tiers.”

Dear Editor, I’ve a dream that one day Guyana will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed ‘One People, One Nation and One Destiny.’

Dear Editor, Even though it has been written about before, it cannot be said enough times – we toy with a health epidemic; we live with a ticking time bomb in our midst.

Dear Editor, How is it that Guyanese are never forewarned about increased and prolonged rainfall that will have a severe impact on their lives?

Dear Editor, I am indebted to the PS of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment for reminding me, in his statement on the road from Parabara, of the term “anthropogenic” referring to the way people’s actions so often make nature’s workings have a bad effect on many other people.

Dear Editor, There is a lack of a Child Protection Officer who is supposed to be stationed at the Anna Regina Welfare Division.