Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, For five Saturdays now, the Admissions Divisions staff at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus has been unable to process my student ID.

Dear Editor, By way of your newspaper I am taking the opportunity to speak to my fellow Guyana Public Service Credit Union (GPSCU) members on the issue of ‘elections’ perception’ and more so, developing a culture of running elections that are perceived to be fair.

Dear Editor, Now that the 2014 budget is in the process of being crafted, it is time to take a serious look at the minimum rate of the pensions being doled out to retired government workers.

Dear Editor, Sunday Stabroek recently took the irresponsible step of publishing an article on teen drug use in which the reporter and editors took absolutely no measures to check facts offered by a supposed expert or give opposing viewpoints.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s article ‘No statesman-like discourse is heard above the din’ (Sunday Stabroek, November 10).

Dear Editor, If we hold it to be true that newspapers are the mirrors of societies then the photograph of the large accumulations of garbage in the city on the front page of your Stabroek News issue of November 11, 2013, really captured the enormous challenge faced by the Mayor and City Council, and supplied an image of a struggling municipality and an unhealthy environment.

Dear Editor, Many persons have written on the blockage of the trenches in Ruimveldt which causes flooding when there is rain.

Dear Editor, Please arrange for a reporter to talk to some of the elected representatives of Kwakwani to respond to an article which was recently published.

Dear Editor, Mr Paul Atkinson, in the November 8 edition of Stabroek News in a letter titled ‘Hopefully there will be an Inter-Zones swimming championship in Region One’ states that I “sought to pacify him and failed miserably.”

Dear Editor, I refer to the recent disappearance of international registered airmail letters being sent to three different addressees at three different addresses in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Within recent times this society has been terrorized by the loud explosions of firecrackers.

Dear Editor, I find it rather strange that a person can constantly over time be harping on the same note, making some daring allegations and statements for no reason when they have no evidence to substantiate them. 

Dear Editor, Both the constitutions of Trinidad and Guyana ensure that opposition ethnic constituents remain  at the mercy of the ruling ethnic party unless some form of decentralization is enshrined within  them to resolve this.

Dear Editor, We have almost reached the end of the year and the anthologies of local fiction and poetry that Minister of Culture, Dr.

Dear Editor, This is my response to the letter by the Attorney General published in the Stabroek News of the 4th November, 2013 `My focus was on the portion of the judge’s Order banning publication of matters from the Annual Reports of a public company’.

Dear Editor, So we have finally crossed the bridge on the money laundering amendment bill and it is quite interesting to see the PPP propaganda machinery on display as they try their very best to save their money laundering buddies from the scrutiny of CFATF. 

Dear Editor, Here we go again! The press has reported that Mr Rohee, newly appointed General Secretary of the PPP, announced at a recent Press Conference the establishment of an internal Integrity and Discipline Commission to, “ensure that members of our Party serving in public offices at all levels, maintain the highest level of integrity in the performance of their duties.”

Dear Editor, In a letter `Notwithstanding the Amerindian Act of 2006, govt’s paternalistic, patronising treatment of the Indigenous Peoples is unrestrained’ (SN 7 November 2013), Mr Da Costa claims that the Minister of Amerindian Affairs can decide who is an Amerindian.

Dear Editor, The resignation by three journalists at TVG 28 exposes a bigger issue that a television or radio licence could not be issued to an entity only for the personal and private agenda of the licensee.

Dear Editor, Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the article captioned, `Snail mail put its express counterpart to shame’, and published on November 3, 2013.