Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,   The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, currently the subject of intense speculation and national debate, was being considered by a Select Committee prior to the National Assembly proceeding on its two- month recess.

  Dear Editor,   In his letter to Stabroek News published on Sunday November 3, 2013, `Contrary to Minister Manickchand’s statement, the AFC did congratulate top performers’, Mr.

Dear Editor, I read with shock the contention of Mr. Bryn Pollard, SC, in the October 24 edition of the Stabroek News, that defence counsel had no ethical obligation to disclose an association with members of the jury.

Dear Editor,   When I listened to Police Superintendent Watts assuring the public on television that sellers and users of squibs/mini bombs during Diwali, if caught, will be dealt with condignly, I felt comforted.

Dear Editor, As I skimmed the articles about last week’s National Education Awards ceremony, I repeatedly encountered the trope of inclusivity in the speeches of the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, and Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds.

Dear Editor, The Environmental Community Health Organization (Echo) is paying careful attention to the media reports that the Guyanese authorities are contemplating granting licences to Chinese fishing vessels to operate in Guyana’s waters.

Dear Editor, Diwali Night 2013 offered something more than the usual to residents of Enmore and its immediate neighbours – compliments of the Enmore Youth Development Group.

Dear Editor, Well Diwali 2013 has come and gone and all that is left is the shattered nerves of the old, the young and the poor defenceless animals who were all subjected to the unceasing barrage of bombs in the form of squibs.

Dear Editor, The best written blueprint in the hands of those who don’t understand their role, care about the document’s intent and the people/community it sets out to serve, presents the opportunity to decry or abuse it.

Dear Editor, A little late doesn’t hurt.  Deliberately not to be left out and be part of the well promoted literacy enhancement drive beseeching all and sundry to drop/stop whatever at 11:00am on September 9th and read something, anything; I gladly took part in the exercise. 

Dear Editor, This ninety-year-old senior has just returned to my homeland. 

Dear Editor, Mr. Rex McKay, S.C., has responded to a release which I made in the press.

Dear Editor, Recently three persons aired criticism of the continuing assignment of the Minister of Finance’s wife to the second most senior position in, and de facto technical head of, the Audit Department. 

Dear Editor, I have been following the reparations discussion in your newspaper.

Dear Editor, It has come to my attention that a directive emanating from education officials in Mabaruma to Moruca says that the full quota of swimmers from Region 1 cannot be fielded for this year’s Nationals due to shortage of funds!

Dear Editor, This Tuesday is Voting Day in New York – General election to choose the office holder for Mayor and a host of other City-wide offices as well as for City Council members.

 Dear Editor,   After being bitten by my neighbour’s two dogs, I subsequently visited the New Amsterdam Hospital at 20:30hrs on Monday [October 28].

Dear Editor,   I have just been on my first visit to Guyana in 40 years. 

Dear Editor,   I rather suspect that Minister Priya Manickchand is hardly celebratory these days in view of the questions she has to answer as asked of her by a letter-writer, Mr.

Dear Editor,   I posted a mail to London, on behalf of my wife, on the 12th of September, 2013, using the Guyana Post Office’s EMS express mail service.