Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Across North America close to 4000 perfectly healthy people annually die from choking on food.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) keeps pressing local businesses and consumers to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) Over the last several years, large numbers of Chinese and Brazilian stores and restaurants have been set up countrywide and it would be interesting to know whether all of them collect VAT and pay it over to GRA.

Dear Editor, I have read the opinions expressed in your newspaper and website on the decision of the Learned Justice Diana Insanally in the application by Joan A Chang, Action No.

Dear Editor, I join with Mr Patrick in his expression of gratitude for the reopening of the Agricola Post Office (SN, January 6).

Dear Editor, In your news item ‘PNM wins all Tobago seats in historic result’ (SN, Jan 23), I conducted tracking opinion polls for NACTA from January 2011 till last Monday conducting no less than seven polls in as many trips to the island, and did not rule out such an outcome though I thought it would be highly improbable. 

Dear Editor, The leaders of Guyana and Suriname recently were invited by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to attend the 12th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) heads of government summit from February 6 to 7 in Cairo.

Dear Editor, The most exciting aspect of the just concluded T-20 regional tournament is the justification of the hype of three young fast bowlers who were being touted by none other than revered cricket columnist Tony Cozier as the real deal.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News editorial on Wednesday, January 16, 2013, ‘Managing Jamaica’s economy’ highlighted the difficulty of sustaining a large public debt.

Dear Editor, It gives me great pleasure to say that I’m so proud to visit my homeland again.

Dear Editor, Mr Patrick Gomes in ‘Georgetown: the Augean stable’ (SN, Jan 22) laments that the descendants of two continents (meaning Indians and Africans) are responsible for the decay of Georgetown. 

Dear Editor, He basked in glory during the 1970s-1980s, announcing his arrival in the athletics arena in fine style at the age of fifteen.

Dear Editor, Of the 144,323 acres which were sown in Region Two, approximately 122,000 acres were expected to be harvested.

Dear Editor, There is a deafening silence from GPL, its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Bharat Dindiyal, and its Berbice Manager, Mr Ayube Bacchus regarding the woefully unreliable supply of electricity in Berbice.

Dear Editor, The census is apparently over. No one visited my home and I live in an area that cannot be easily missed.

Dear Editor, Guyana was given a thorough hiding by Trinidad in the finals, but under the conditions and considering form during the tournament this was not an altogether surprising conclusion.

Dear Editor, Now Dr David Dabydeen has come to the defence of the esoteric ‘Caribbean Press’.

Dear Editor, As national and regional leaders plan for this year’s Mashramani celebrations and as fellow Guyanese prepare to take part in those activities, I merely want (through your medium) to remind fellow Guyanese that six significant anniversaries will occur this year.

Dear Editor, Augeus, the mythical king of Elis, kept great stables that held 3,000 oxen and had not been cleaned for thirty years when Hercules was assigned the job.

Dear Editor, It is over a year now since the new government came into office.

Dear Editor,     As society evolves, different phenomena display themselves, some of which are beneficial, some harmful, etc, and some which are amusing, depending on the viewpoint.