Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Please permit me to state the facts regarding the construct and operations of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), in response to a Demerara Waves publication in which Mr Shyam Nokta is reported to have said at the just concluded Congress of the People’s Progressive Party that there is opposition party influence in Gecom. 

Dear Editor, Despite the clarion calls for the autonomy of the Berbice campus and the purported benefits of this, it is important to first to analyse the governance structures of higher education and weigh their benefits and disadvantages before making a decision on supporting or rejecting calls for autonomy.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to set the record straight, after reading the report in your edition of July 17, captioned ‘Josiah Tanner laments being bypassed for Caricom 10K –says AAG needs to review selection criteria.’

Dear Editor, Just recently, Ron Robinson was interviewed and celebrated by NCN TV and radio for his 48 years contribution to radio broadcasting.

Dear Editor, In the Kaieteur News of 5 August, 2013 it is reported that Minister Jennifer Webster has urged women to “Get out immediately” from “abusive relationships.”

Dear Editor, The latest Amaila Falls load-shedding involving prominent AFC figures drives home the clinging darkness over this land. 

Dear Editor, In your issue of July 23, 2013, you published a joint letter by Messrs Joseph and Witter and another by Mr Yarde, purportedly in response to a letter I wrote and which was published in your edition of July 19, 2013, but were indeed personal attacks against me.

Dear Editor, The election of Jack Warner to the Trinidad & Tobago parliament has received a rather muted reaction in the Guyana media.

Dear Editor, I would like to take some time off from political analysis to sensitize you and readers about the 50th anniversary of the Cummings’ Lodge Government Secondary School (CLGSS).

Dear Editor, On July 18, 2013 a friend called me and told me to tune into Channel 11, NCN TV and there was Ramesh Dookhoo, Gerry Gouveia and Kit Nascimento telling the public, on behalf of the Private Sector Commission, what villains the opposition were for throwing a huge spanner into the machinations of the PPP for the Amaila project.

Dear Editor, There are many positives to be taken from the current configuration of Guyana’s Parliament. 

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in the July 16 edition of the Chronicle under the headline: ‘Solomon, other official criticise Fyffe over accommodation issue,” in response to the letter I wrote to SN over the manner in which a worker of the Region 10 RDC was treated.

Dear Editor, A few years ago I had read the bestselling book Confessions of An Economic Hit Man by whistle-blowing former economic hit man John Perkins.

Dear Editor, If the Amaila Falls Hydro Power Project becomes reality it might well be assessed as government’s most specular achievement and a national feat.

Dear Editor, In view of developments on Monday afternoon regarding the work of the Special Select Committee on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2013 I wish to draw the following points to the attention of your readers.

Dear Editor, I refer to an article titled ‘Chinese Landing Amerindians in epic battle for mining access’ in Stabroek News of 3 August 2013.

Dear Editor, Sithe Global would like to thank the members of Parliament and the members of the Guyanese public who attended our Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (“Project”) information workshops, which were conducted on July 31. 

Dear Editor, Dr Mangal’s latest tirade and expedition into invincible absurdity (‘Mangal says Surujbally ignored list of complaints about 2011 elections’; report in SN, August 6) needs really only a one sentence answer: all of the deficiencies raised in his letter to the Chairman should have been directed at the Head of the Secretariat – namely Mr Boodoo, the same Mr Boodoo whom he has publicly supported to retain the position of Chief Election Officer.

Dear Editor, I have now looked at the 21 slides of Mr Winston Brassington and the 33 slides from Sithe Global that were projected at the second National Stakeholders’ meeting on 31 July at the National Convention Centre.

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your newspaper to reply to a letter written by Mr Stephen Hiscock (‘Rupununi visit was a Gecom fact-finding trip,’ Sunday Stabroek, August 4).