Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In an SN article of November 11, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) asserted that the Hope Canal Project (HCP) with the sluice component only 13.5% completed at the end of October, will still meet the HCP completion deadline of June 2013.

Dear Editor, The football fraternity in Guyana is slowly approaching the month where clubs in their various associations across the land, seek to be a part of the long anticipated end of the year tournament,  the Kashif and Shanghai Tournament.

Dear Editor, Is Andaiye of Red Thread for real? What’s her gripe in comparing past PPP non-violent opposition history with the current opposition parliamentary ruckus?

Dear Editor, Guyanese and other Hindus had a most joyous Diwali celebration in the environs of New York (upstate, Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania) over the weekend. 

Dear Editor, The celebration of Dipavali provides us a unique opportunity to reflect on questions of gender and religion in general and on the status of the female in the Hindu and wider Guyanese society.

Dear Editor, ‘Poorest president donates 90% of his salary‘ is the heading of a deeply inspirational article about the President of Uruguay published at http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/poorest-president-donates-90-salary-205125869.html

Dear Editor, The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) is responding to a letter from Mr Alfred Mentore that appeared in Stabroek News on November 5, 2012 with the headline ‘DCC concerned that system other than Duckworth-Lewis was used to pick winner of Queensway tournament.’

Dear Editor, The letter in SN on November 8 from a Berbice resident concerning GPL and the continuing black-outs in Berbice-Corentyne is but one of the examples of mismanagement by this government in relation to the people of Berbice (‘Proud of Berbicians standing up to GPL…‘).

Dear Editor, The NIS Pensioners of Kwakwani would like to thank the authorities for the swift way in which they were able to rectify the problem they had encountered with their November pension vouchers.

Dear Editor, What passes for the Guyana mind appears to have been moulded over the last several years, whether deliberately or unconsciously, into a state of mouldiness, which only reproduces stale unappetising materials and repetitive ideas that do not relate to current realities.

Dear Editor, I bought one of the two-bedroom houses through the Ministry of Housing in the new Herstelling Scheme.

Dear Editor, Residents living on the Upper Corentyne are suffering more under the PPP/C than under the 28 years of PNC rule.

Dear Editor, Last Saturday at the UG’s Convocation exercise a young lady, Ms Kumarie Kooseram, received the award for the best Graduating Student in the UG Medical School.

Dear Editor, I must write to express my thoughts on what I perceive to be a very poorly planned Diwali Motorcade in the East Canje/New Amsterdam/East Bank Berbice area on Sunday evening.

Dear Editor, There is appreciation for the chief as an individual, as there is potential for decency and the development of independent thought processes. 

Dear Editor, The world commemorates November 11 as Remembrance Day. But what a way the students of Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) chose to mark this day!

Dear Editor, Your analysis in the editorial, ‘Impasse’ is timely and spot on.

Dear Editor, The political challenge faced by Guyana today remains the same as it was under the unmodified Westminster system (post-independence).

Dear Editor, I kept silent while the EZjet story unfolded on one wing and some questionable representations. 

Dear Editor, Very briefly the sugar industry’s current governance structure constitutes of a board, with chairman; a chief executive officer; an executive management team, of which general managers of estates should be members.