Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Arrival Day which was observed on May 5 is a good time to reflect on the difficult road we have traversed as a people and the challenges that lie ahead as we strive to forge a peaceful and cohesive society.

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your daily publication to comment on a report entitled ‘No short-term solution to the overtopping of the seawall  -say engineers’ appearing in the Sunday Stabroek of May 5.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in the Stabroek News of May 5, captioned ‘Scouring of foreshore from the earlier overtopping and severe wind caused the latest overtopping of the sea defences.’

Dear Editor, Through your columns, Editor, I would like to ask the Minister for Natural Resources and the Environment for clarification after his evasive responses to your reporter about the expansionist Bai Shan Lin (BSL) in our forest sector (‘Bai Shan Lin holds 960,000 hectares of forest,’ Sunday Stabroek May 5). 

Dear Editor, Stabroek News of Saturday, May 4, in a news item quoted Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the PNCR and Chairman of APNU Mr David Granger as saying that “Burnham was not responsible for the murder of Walter Rodney.”

Dear Editor, The campaign to deny Guyana’s late President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham South Africa’s Order of the Companions of O R Tambo Award, is deserving of exposure. 

Dear Editor, Stella Ramsaroop writes in Stabroek News weekly preaching to the Guyanese public what they should or should not do. 

Dear Editor, I am a teacher in need of your help.

Dear Editor, As a dog lover, I understand Mr Calvin Benjamin’s grief over the loss (hopefully temporary) of his beloved pooch, ‘Pal.’

Dear Editor, Good seed paddy is essential for productive agriculture. There is a shortage of basic seed paddy at the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Anna Regina, for rice farmers in Region Two.

Dear Editor, There’s a saying: “nothing happens nothing said,” but this is far from the story I’m about to talk about.

Dear Editor, The government’s plans to encourage economic growth through direct taxpayer investment in infrastructure are unconvincing, and will lead to higher costs for consumers and bigger financial burdens on the taxpayers.

Dear Editor, I have been trying to find out how a shopkeeper in the interior may legally buy gold from miners in the region.

Dear Editor, I had the greatest privilege on Sunday last to attend the annual awards ceremony of the RHTY&SC at the fantastic and beautiful St Francis Community Developers building as I accompanied a friend who was to be honoured as a retired teacher.

Dear Editor, I wonder if those who oppose Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham obtaining the Oliver Tambo Award remember that he made a crucial decision that tilted the balance in favour of the liberation struggle in Southern Africa.

Dear Editor, Allow me the opportunity to say thanks for publishing my letter in your April 28, 2013, edition.

Dear Editor, Having lived in India for the past few years, I casually observed some Hindi songs that caught my attention and which might also be of interest to Guyanese.

Dear Editor, I have intensified an examination of existing conditions in Georgetown, in order to push as far as possible the process to satisfy the motion passed in the National Assembly to restore our capital city.

Dear Editor, In your editorial last Sunday you referred to the posthumous award by President J G Zuma of South Africa of the Order of the Companions of O R Tambo (Gold) to the late President L F S Burnham “for his integral part in the sport boycotts against South Africa during the apartheid regime and support for the liberation movement and freedom fighters in South Africa.”

Dear Editor, The WPA has a real problem now that it has merged itself with the PNC-APNU.