Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, We note the lengthy letter written by the Attorney General, Mr Anil Nandlall, dealing with the assent to Bills in the National Assembly (‘The President has untrammelled freedom …’ SN, September 30). 

Dear Editor, It is very gratifying to see the US Ambassador sharing his thoughts on the Amaila Falls issue. 

Dear Editor, After months of hiding from the people, the so-called ‘pollster’ has resurfaced to announce another duplicitous poll in Guyana in September 2013.

Dear Editor, The letter by Mr Anil Nandlall, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs ‘The President has untrammelled freedom to assent to and withhold assent from Bills’ (Stabroek News, September 30) addresses two principal points: first the presidential assent (or non-assent) of Bills and second, the role of the Attorney General in the process.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter in the October 2 edition of the Stabroek News under the caption ‘Guyana Securities Council Annual Reports tabled in Parliament for 2007-2011,’ signed by Mr Shaun O Allicok,  the GSC’s Legal Counsel/Corporate Secretary.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to clarify a situation which is perceived as a threat to the East Coast Cricket Board of Control.

Dear Editor, I refer with interest to the letter in Tuesday’s Stabroek News written by Vidyaratha Kissoon captioned ‘LGBT should be allowed to donate blood in Guyana’ and reinforce my support for the points made by the writer, since I was planning to pen a few similar words.

Dear Editor, For more than ten years Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co, Ltd (GT&T) has refused to install functioning landline phones on the island of Leguan.

With respect to the letter captioned ‘The TSC uses agreed criteria for promotions plus the recommendations of supervising officers’ which appeared in SN yesterday, we should like to point out that Mr Ray Bassoo was not the signatory to the letter in a personal capacity; it came from the Teaching Service Commission.

Dear Editor: Reference is made to the letter ‘The AG must act in a way consistent with the responsibility of his office’ (SN, October 2) which purportedly attempts to communicate my thoughts in response to the Attorney General’s (AG) letter ‘The President has untrammelled freedom to assent to and withhold assent from Bills (SN, September, 30). 

Dear Editor, If the opinions regarded by some as “inviolable sagacity” are indeed “as flawed as they may be,” then the learned attorney-general should have pointed them out in his letter of Sept 30 in SN (‘The President has untrammelled freedom to assent to and withhold assent from Bills’).

Dear Editor, With some fanfare and a ceremony, we launched Heritage Week – laudable and acceptable.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Commissioner Leroy Brumell for visiting a crime hot spot with a team of senior members of the force and holding discussion with members of the community.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Securities Council observed a misrepresentation of facts in the column under the caption ‘Accountability Watch’ by Anand Goolsarran on pages 8 and 10 of the Monday edition of Stabroek News, dated September 30.

Dear Editor, The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) refutes definitively the claims reported in last Saturday’s (September 28) issue of the Stabroek News where the General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) alleged that the TSC has been denying teachers their just and legal promotions every year by ignoring the agreed criteria for promotions and advancement.

Dear Editor, “Mr Ramkarran reveals that Dr Henry Jeffrey spoke out in private against PNC election rigging,” writes Sultan Mohamed (‘Thought-provoking column,’ SN, October 1).

Dear Editor, I note with amazement a letter signed by the Mr Norman Whittaker, Minister within the Ministry of Local Government, in the Stabroek News of Saturday, September 28, titled, ‘City council’s unwillingness to account for money it receives is a matter of concern to Local Government Ministry.’

Dear Editor, Please allow me to highlight a situation that has recently affected the residents of Anna Catherina, West Coast, Demerara.

Dear Editor, Days before the last general election, I complained to Minister Jennifer Webster at one of the PPP/C bottom-house meetings about the low water pressure at the Uitvlugt Sideline Dam, and she promised to look into the matter immediately.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the Attorney General’s letter, ‘The President has untrammelled freedom to assent to and withhold assent from Bills” (SN, September, 30).