Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Congratulations to all those students who were outstanding at their CSEC examinations this year.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to letters signed by Rev Gideon Cecil (‘There are serious staffing issues at the GPOC’ SN, October 27) and Eshwari Shakti Persaud (‘System at the Registrar annoying, frustrating’ GC, October 26) the last-mentioned of which stated among other things that the Registrar General discriminates against Hindu Marriage Officers. 

Dear Editor, I visited Guyana on strictly personal business from October 21 to 26 and deliberately opted to spend my sparse spare time engaging in unbiased observations of areas I visited and then making comparisons to what I had observed during my previous visit in 1997.

Dear Editor, As I sat in my home I saw on the Eyewitness News update on Channel 67 a rebroadcast of a story about a house that was destroyed by fire.

Dear Editor, Gold is an amazing commodity. Gold has launched wars, and destroyed and created whole societies.

Dear Editor, Mr Mark Archer informs us that the “Protest at Agricola had nothing to do with PNCR or APNU” (SN, Oct 24).

Dear Editor, I am a Guyanese by birth but an American by grace.

Dear Editor, Guyanese in London welcome the effort of the Guyana Government and the International Organisation for Migration on the long overdue launching of the Guyana Diaspora in London. 

Dear Editor, With reference to Mr Ramkarran’s comments on the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the Police Force’s apparent refusal to recruit practitioners (or victims) (‘It would enhance the human rights of the region…‘ SN, Oct 28), the question that arises is whether the police could actively invite into their ranks practitioners of behaviour still considered criminal by the law and risible or offensive by the public at large.

Dear Editor, I wish as an individual and as a Pastor to lend my voice in objection to the planned consultation on and eventual legalisation of the alternative lifestyle.

Dear Editor, I don’t think Guyana benefited a great deal under President Obama (‘Victory for Obama is victory for us here in Guyana’ SN, Oct 27 by Dr ‘Joey’ Jagan) and in fact I believe the dollar numbers may show Guyana received more financial assistance under George Bush than under Obama, especially in the fight against HIV-AIDS. 

Dear Editor, Even as one may tend to support Mr Devanand Bhagwan’s response to Mr David Hind’s letter in Stabroek News, of September 17 titled, ‘The dangerous calls by Mr Hinds for extremist civic actions should be of concern to all,’ Mr Bhagwan ought not to be myopic but see the current situation in Guyana as one that demands a strong response to an obtuse, arrogant state machinery.

Dear Editor,   Guyana is at a crossroads. A wrong turn could lead to its worst nightmare: its failure as a state.

Dear Editor, That Chris Brown is coming to Guyana has been greeted with much enthusiasm in some quarters, chief among which is the government, but castigated in others such as Red Thread and some women’s groups.

Dear Editor, On Friday, October 26, Muslims around the world took part in Qurbani (an act performed to seek Allah’s pleasure) by sacrificing animals keeping one-third for oneself, gifting one-third to friends/family and giving one-third as charity.

Dear Editor, If anyone, but especially former President Bharrat Jagdeo, still desires evidence of corruption in government so that remedial action can be taken, I refer him or her to the Auditor-General’s report for 2011.

Dear Editor, The government’s decision to enthusiastically support the planned Chris Brown December concert raises a number of questions, and there are also implications in a wider social context on the efforts to tackle the issue of gender abuse in Guyana.

Dear Editor, The PPP has launched anti-corruption investigations into Georgetown‘s City Hall and the GDF’s cooperative credit union.

Dear Editor, Recently I saw in the media the Minister of Agriculture making a declaration that GuySuCo has surpassed its revised [down] target for the year and that there was much to celebrate.

Dear Editor, The road work at Diamond began over four months ago and only a part of the work has been done; the grading of the old streets and filling in the red loam.