Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It is a norm for Guyanese in the diaspora especially in New York, London, Barbados and Toronto to celebrate our country’s independence (in late May) and attract overseas-based nationals from other Caribbean states.

Dear Editor, I refer to articles in your publication of August 31, 2012 captioned ‘Ex-narcotic agent reprimanded over assault of airport immigration officer’ and wish to emphatically confirm that at no time in the history of the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) was there an employee by the name of Jitindra Persaud.

Dear Editor, In January 2010, I stated in SN that Barack Obama would be one-term president, and that he would be denied a second term by the jobs issue.

Dear Editor, Rashleigh Jackson, in response to a question posed by a reporter at a press conference at the United Nations some years ago gave this response: “If your information was accurate and your analysis sound then I would agree with your conclusion.

Dear Editor, I’ve heard quite a number of times persons saying that writing is a waste of time – “Yuh writing and nobody K.”

Dear Editor, In the opinion of the International Committee in Continuing Defence of Linden, the statement of the Guyana Government through its Ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS)  delivered on August 22, 2012, instead of reciting the sequence of events, went out of its way to accuse the government’s critics of incitement to racial disaffection.

Dear Editor, In his book, The Wild Coast, the author, John Gimlette, refers to his brief interview with me (conducted in a public place at the Pegasus Poolside) and then proceeds without my knowledge or sanction to embellish the scenarios, using his author’s licence.

Dear Editor, Guyanese Americans have to be applauded for the interest shown in the just concluded Republican Convention, and I hope the same will be displayed this coming week during the Democratic convention, deepening the group’s interest and involvement in American politics.

Dear Editor, The adopted country (US) of Jamaican-born Sanya Richards Ross (400m gold medalist at the London 2012 Olympics) paved the way towards international stardom for her.

Dear Editor, I am compelled to respond to Mr Archie Cordis constant griping on the contents of  my television programme in Region 2, ‘Let’s Talk Essequibo‘ (Romel Roopnarine’s programme mostly on Linden did not tell Essequibo viewers that three protestors had been shot dead by police’ SN, August 31).

Dear Editor, Most citizens must be excited at the much promoted prospects of a boom in the country’s economy, energised largely by overseas investors deriving from different economic cultures and industrial relations environments.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP) wishes to respond to the letter titled ‘Guyana should not be experimenting with geotextile structures for coastal protection as their effectiveness had not been recognized’ in the Stabroek News dated Sunday, August 26.

Dear Editor, On Friday, August 24, about 7.30 pm, I watched a call-in programme aired on RCA 8 called ‘Let’s Talk Essequibo’ hosted by Mr Romel Roopnarine. 

Dear Editor, I am not sure what criteria were used for Stabroek News to bestow the crown of Guyana‘s most “renowned” coach on the Guyana Police Force coach, Mr Lyndon Wilson.

Dear Editor, The political elite running the PPP and PNC do not make decisions in the interest of their constituencies, party and the nation.

Dear Editor, We watched with disgust the spectacle of corruption scandal after corruption scandal over the last decade, and when we thought it would have gone away with new leadership in government, oh what a surprise:  Corruption is here to stay.

Dear Editor, Mr Patrick Fitzpatrick‘s letter in KN of August 28, titled ‘Linden complains but Aishalton suffers,‘ has highlighted some of the sufferings in the Rupununi.

Dear Editor, Thank you for your timely editorial on the meeting of the Permanent Council OAS on August 22, 2012.

Dear Editor, The NCN online radio broadcasts have been ‘dead’ for weeks.

Dear Editor, On behalf of his several close former GuySuCo colleagues, congratulations are extended to Narvon Persaud for being recognised, however belatedly, by the administration, as a competent professional worthy of chairing the Technical Team recently appointed to investigate the Linden power crisis.