Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Harvesting of the present rice crop has commenced in Regions Two, Three and Six and Essequibo farmers are making full use of the sunny weather.

Dear Editor, From time to time there bursts onto the public scene a comment from one of our Guyanese activists lamenting the retrogression or lack of progress of one of the two major racial groups.

Dear Editor,   It is safe to assume that the vast majority of citizens at home and abroad share the sentiments expressed by Commissioner of Police, Mr Leroy Brumell, when with the top echelon of the Force he met with a West Demerara Community recently; his plea for them to be involved and help is commendable.I

Dear Editor, As a former student of Cotton Tree Primary now residing in Sweden, I attended a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) meeting for my nephew in Grade 5 on Thursday, September 12 at the said school.

Dear Editor, As the PPP/C continues to flout Guyana’s laws including the constitution, choosing instead to govern by whim, I hope leaders are prepared for the inevitable reaction of Guyanese citizens.

Dear Editor, This is in reference to your editorial ‘Westgate Mall’ (Sep 25).

Dear Editor, I believe one person can make a difference. Here are some examples from history where one person made a difference: In America, Rev Dr Martin Luther King; in South Africa, Nelson Mandela; in Germany, Dietrich Bonhoeffer; in India, Gandhi and Mother Theresa; and in Israel, King David made a difference.

Dear Editor,   The appropriation by government of Norwegian aid money is worse than is portrayed in your article ‘New Norway gov’t likely to continue climate policy’ (SN, September 24, derived from the subscription-only Norwegian magazine Development Today and Chris Lang’s summary ‘Almost half of Norway’s climate and forest aid remain unspent’ in http://www.redd-monitor.org/2013/09/20/almost-half-of-norways-climate-and-forest-aid-remains-unspent/

Dear Editor, A Commission of Inquiry under the laws of Guyana, falls under an Act of Parliament Chapter 19:03.

Dear Editor,  Much has been made recently in the press about the supposed demise of the AFC’s New York and New Jersey Chapter consequent upon recent “defections” to APNU.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to the September 24 letter (‘Indian communities suffer from the same maladies and social pathologies as do African ones’) written by the eminent Mr Annan Boodram.

Dear Editor, I simply wish to pen this letter in response to Peter Persaud’s absurd letter published in the Guyana Chronicle, of September 5, 2013 captioned ‘Mr Larson should work for the benefit of Isseneru Village.’

Dear Editor, Over the years I have read about the various companies that have an interest in mining operations in Guyana and wondered whether the government has created an environment of self-deprecation.

Dear Editor, Mr GHK Lall’s letter has prompted me to respond to my ex-colleague Allan A Johnson Fenty’s latest column where he asked “How come Lall and others feel righteous enough to condemn?”

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to Mr F Skinner’s letter of September 12, 2013.

Dear Editor, Glory be!  Alleluia! Some pixie men came this morning, leaned a pixie ladder against a new post that had been planted opposite my house, mounted it, did various gymnastics and then departed.

Dear Editor, It is a known fact that only the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) supported the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) at the last elections in the wake of a divided and unknown Demerara Cricket Board and the abstention from the process by the Berbice Cricket Board.

Dear Editor,   It was good of your newspaper to publish in yesterday’s edition, 23rd September the letter in relation to Halaal meats to accommodate Muslims in Guyana, but please note it was written as you would have seen on the letterhead of Bait-Ur-Rahma (House of Mercy), which institution  is situated in the compound of Queenstown  Jumu’h Masjid.

Dear Editor, It hurts me whenever I pass our Parliament Building and see vagrants, people with mental problems, the destitute and beggars lying and sitting on the walkways.

Dear Editor, I must commend my friend David Hinds for taking the initiative to lead the charge for African Guyanese to empower themselves and to become self-reliant.