Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Residents of the new Herstelling Scheme completed in 2011 and handed over early 2012 are upset about the deplorable state of the roads.

Dear Editor, On May 27th, US Vice President Joseph Biden, visited Trinidad and Tobago for bilateral talks with several Caricom leaders, including Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar.

Dear Editor, Some of your news stories, and much more your letter columns, are lately focussed on the misuse of racial loyalties.

 Dear Editor, After spending the entire morning of Friday, May 31, 2013 in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to offer some testimony in a personal matter before the Court, I observed a particularly troubling practice related solely to the procedural management of evidentiary recording that I wish to briefly highlight and expound upon.

Dear Editor, A news item in your newspaper  (May 31st, `US in talks on $300M democracy project here’) reported a big meeting between APNU’s leaders  and U.S.

Dear Editor, I refer to Christopher Persaud’s letter in Stabroek News of May 28, 2013, where he pointed out that the obituary of Ayube Hamid in the Sunday Stabroek,  January 25, 2009 was erroneous as regards him being a life member of the Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO).

Dear Editor, Local singers currently competing in the GT&T jingle and star competition have indeed caught my admiration and while their progress towards international stardom will depend on the existence of a viable local industry, there is serious talent on show here  especially in the English genre.

Dear Editor, It was with open-mouthed consternation that I read Mr.

Dear Editor, Criticisms have no impact on any company, especially when that company or firm knows that it holds the balance of power and you very well know that people don’t have anything better to go to.

Dear Editor, Let me see how I can usefully enter the award discussion. 

Dear Editor, In the wake of the Minister of Culture, Dr Frank Anthony’s recent call for help with the Caribbean Press, I have indicated via e-mail to Permanent Secretary Alfred King my willingness to meet with the ministry in the company of other stakeholders to discuss the way forward, an e-mail which was acknowledged as received by Mr King. 

Dear Editor, It is an instructive contradiction that in the print media of Sunday, May 26, 2013 there appeared a news item of this country’s representative at an international forum addressing the subject of “Indigenous Peoples” ‒ in legitimate conformity with the relevant provision in the Constitution of Guyana; while an ‘Invitation to Bids’ was published by the Ministry of “Amerindian Affairs” on another page.

Dear Editor, I am writing with reference to your letter under cover of which was forwarded a letter sent to you by Ms Lovern Li-A-Ping titled ‘Poor service at the Guyana Consulate in New York,’ published in your edition of May 24.

Dear Editor, A letter that was carried by your newspaper, headlined ‘Lack of funds, poor planning meant UG could not participate in either UWI Games or Hampton Games,’ by Elton Bollers was brought to my attention (SN, May 29).

Dear Editor, Please permit the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) to comment on the fatal stabbing of a young man during an argument over a bet on a dog fight (as reported in Kaieteur News of 27th May, 2013). 

Dear Editor, I do not think that there is a single Guyanese who did not feel pleased when it was reported, that President Donald Ramotar on the eve of the Independence anniversary announced that the government would be re-opening the 50-year-old road project between Parika and communities close to Bartica.

Dear Editor, On Friday, May 31, 2013, a small contingent from Red Thread and one of our networks,  Grassroots Women Across Race,  handed over a petition with three thousand and sixty-nine (3,069) signatures to the Minister of Labour at his office.

Dear Editor, A few years ago the western section of the East Coast corridor was a very picturesque scene at night as all of the road lights were in working condition and there seemed to be a maintenance programme in place to replace any defective or damaged units.

Dear Editor, Old people seh eye is a fast thing, true.

Dear Editor, There are two observations that do not bode well for Guyana: 1.