Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, An interesting scenario currently exists in the local press corps today.

Dear Editor, I would like to commend the Ministry of Home Affairs for publishing the list of ticketable offences for drivers.

Dear Editor, With the PPP moving into election mode following the trimming of the 2012 National Budget in parliament by the majority opposition, it is imperative that the APNU and AFC immediately pass electoral reforms aimed at restoring democracy to Guyana.

Dear Editor, An extremely significant contribution from the Diaspora, captioned  ‘UG: Exciting Times: Human capital and development,” by Prof Rory Fraser, appeared in SN on March 12, 2012.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to Ms Audreyanna Thomas who has allowed herself to be misguided by a news report carried by Capitol News over a week ago and in the process was caught up in a sinister plot to once again portray me in a bad light (‘Senior public officers should be careful about their language in public…’ SN, April 30).

Dear Editor, I am resident of McDoom East Bank. Since last year, the water has been turned off every weekend by the attendant without notice.

Dear Editor, It is long past the time for Guyana to establish an independent Broadcast Authority to monitor and regulate all radio and television broadcasts emanating from Guyana.

Dear Editor, In Guyana non-functioning brake lights on cars are a traffic violation which is a statutory (ticketed) offence with a fine of $5,000.

Dear Editor, With regard to your several news items (SN, Apr 27, 28) on Trinidad’s announced plan to replace the Privy Council with the CCJ for criminal matters, there are mixed views from the country’s legal luminaries and intellectuals and widespread opposition from the common man to such a move. 

Dear Editor, I find the earlier pronouncements of Drs Roger Luncheon and Ashni Singh and now Mr Winston Brassington that National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) is a private company with the legal right to withhold public moneys annoying, self-serving, misinformed and mischievous.

Dear Editor, The Constitution of Guyana contains the following provision in Article 149.

Dear Editor, There is something awry with regard to the recent social efforts of certain Hindu organizations in Guyana.

Dear Editor, On April 30, 2012, I arrived home around midnight from my second job.

Dear Editor, I agree with GRA Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur (SN, May 1) that he has done a good job in improving the public administration of taxes.

Dear Editor, As I browsed your columnist Henry Jeffrey’s article ‘Unwillingness to negotiate is a fatal flaw‘ (April 25)” my eyes caught the line, “The Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund (SILWF), created in 1947 to provide subsidized services for sugar workers, survived the Burnham regime and is still very much alive.

Dear Editor, I wish to draw attention to the age factor in employment relationships.

Dear Editor, The sole utility of GINA and the NCN will, in the end, be archival.

Dear Editor, One is not surprised at the Stabroek News’ editorial captioned: ‘The GINA and NCN subventions’ and its vengeful rantings, as a response to the opposition motion that dictated deep budgetary cuts totalling some $22B to the overall estimates for 2012. 

Dear Editor, The government-owned Guyana Chronicle carried one article and one letter on April 30, 2012 criticising Amerindian members of the National Assembly who voted to reduce those components of the appropriations bill which linked to former President Jagdeo’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). 

Dear Editor, Since it was a holiday (May Day) I was relaxing at home, and flicking through the Stabroek News I came across some interesting items.