Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The tragic death of former Commissioner of Police Henry Greene has brought home in no uncertain terms the different times in which we live. 

Dear Editor, I have seen advertisements in the daily newspapers requesting buses for a bus service between Guyana and Brazil.

Dear Editor, The III Summit of South American and Arab Countries (ASPA) will be held in Lima, Peru on October 1-2, 2012 and will bring together leaders of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Arab League, including 12 and 22 countries respectively.

Dear Editor, The views expressed in a letter to the editor of the Guyana Chronicle dated September 1, regarding the treatment of women in the media generally, but more specifically the very distasteful piece in a recent column of ‘Dem Boys Seh’ carried in Kaieteur News dated July 21, is fully supported.

Dear Editor, Whenever resolutions, declarations and such things are made and adopted at conventions and conferences on the international stage we sign on to them and follow suit as a matter of formality – not that we truly believe in them, recognizing what they say.

Dear Editor, Mr Wesley Kirton is simply wrong in stating that the PNC was “Not an illegal government” (SN Sep 10).

Dear Editor, What a slap in the face to students. The University of Guyana Turkeyen announces “improvements” in new academic year.

Dear Editor, I seek to respond to a letter (‘Jagdeo observed the ten-year condition attached to the transport for Pradoville I land to the letter‘) written by the learned Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr Anil Nandlall, and published by the Stabroek News on September 7, in response to my missive titled ‘The evidence shows that former President Jagdeo got preferential treatment for Pradoville II land,’ published by the Stabroek News on September 4.

Dear Editor, The growing number of road fatalities should be of concern not only to road users but to all who care about life.

Dear Editor, It was impossible to obtain statistical data on the premier Essequibo batsmen of yesteryear.

Dear Editor, I have read Vishnu Bisram’s letter in Thursday’s edition of your newspaper regarding my response (SN, Sept 2) to his initial letter (SN, Aug 31) on the upcoming US election. 

Dear Editor, One would believe that with the advent of electronic gadgets in the developed world, books would have become unpopular as a social pastime.

     Dear Editor, When in 2010 I first raised the question of the fate of the country’s parliamentary records it attracted little attention.

Dear Editor, I refer to my previous letter on the abovementioned subject which was published in your newspaper on Sunday August 5, 2012 (‘Guyana has ratified the UN Convention…’) in which I brought to the attention of your readers that, Guyana like other Caricom states, having ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, without making any reservations to the Convention, is under a legal obligation under international law to give legal effect to the Convention at the national level.

Dear Editor, Mr Henry Greene, former Commissioner of Police and President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association died in the early morning of Friday, September 7 on the Harlem Public Road, West Coast Demerara. 

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the headline for the SN September 8 article ‘Kwakwani election could set a bad precedent, says Whittaker.’

Dear Editor, Please allow me to share some thoughts after having read a letter to the editor:  ‘No point in LCDS supporting documents being in Amerindian languages because most Indigenous peoples can’t read them’ (SN, September 6).

Dear Editor, We refer to an article in the Stabroek News on Wednesday, September 5 in relation to an explosion in the Blairmont Estate Sugar Factory.

Dear Editor, Having regard to the tone of my many letters kindly published by Stabroek News and mostly of a critical nature, I consider it appropriate that I clear the air by asserting, as I now do, that I am unfettered by any political party affiliation or association. 

Dear Editor, Ashton Simon claims that the LCDS booklet has been available at meetings of the statutory National Toshaos Council (2009-2011) and a LCDS information desk on the LCDS at the 2012 meeting (‘No point in LCDS supporting documents being in Amerindian languages because most indigenous people can’t read them,’ SN, September 5).