Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, A landmark ruling on Tuesday by the Supreme Court of India has relevance and application to the rest of the world facing corruption problems. 

Dear Editor, A critic of one of my letters raised an issue that is of paramount importance to this nation. The

Dear Editor, In your Sunday editorial of January 22, 2012, you mentioned that if national and regional elections were to be called, “Gecom simply could not manage it.”

Dear Editor, I refer to the PPP press release of January 17, 2012; Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s press release which appeared on the page 3 of the Stabroek News of Wednesday January 18, under the caption, ‘PPP/C addressing voter loss‘; and, the news item which appeared on page 2 of Stabroek News January 23, under the caption, ‘Trotman cannot remain as AFC List Rep.‘

Dear Editor, Every day, for the past three years on my way to Georgetown I drive along the Railway Embankment road. 

Dear Editor, My colleagues have reminded me of my letter in your publication of December 19, 2011, imploring obedience to the law disqualifying persons with dual citizenship from sitting in the National Assembly (‘The new MPs should hold only Guyanese citizenship’).

Dear Editor, In last Sunday’s Chronicle of January 29, Mr Keith Burrows concluded that “Guyana has made significant progress to reach higher standards of integrity, transparency and value for money” in the awarding of contracts.

Dear Editor, In reply to Dave Martins’ letter of January 28, 2012, I would like to say that if heaping praise on Rahul Bhattacharya and his book, The Sly Company of People who Care, in his column (August 14, 2011) was meant to convey gratitude to the writer for showing us what needs to be fixed then he fell very short of his intention.

Dear Editor, Climate change means that farmers can no longer rely on the signs that they used in the past to help them decide when to sow and harvest along with predicting flooding.

Dear Editor, There are matters of governance which are of concern; foremost among these is the FipMotilall contract.

Dear Editor, I note that in the vacancy advertisement from the Teaching Service Commission in the Sunday Stabroek of January 29 there are three closing dates for the receipt of the original application forms:  Friday, March 09, 2012 for receipt by the Head of the Department of Education; Friday, March 09, 2012 for receipt by Central Ministry; and Friday, April 13, 2012 for receipt by the Teaching Service  Commission itself.

Dear Editor, At a media briefing at the Pegasus Hotel held on Jan 25, executives of the investor Sithe Global, which in an apparently unusual deal bought a licence/contract instrument from Synergy Holdings for US$12M to develop the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHEP) on the Potaro River, now appears to be struggling just as Fip Motilall of Synergy did.

Dear Editor, The attached photo shows the deplorable condition of Good Hope bridge on the East Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, Mayor Hamilton Green makes a paltry attempt to justify incompetence and politicking as he presides over the constant decay of the city.

Dear Editor, The ability to conduct an effective Preliminary Inquiry (PI) in an effective, efficient and timely manner is the foundation on which the entire criminal justice system should be built. 

Dear Editor, I have noted an attempt to comment on my absence from the 7th Regional Democratic Council of Region 10, in articles published in Kaieteur News and wish to share with you that ever since I was elected Regional Chairman in  2006 by the 6th Council of the RDC, I had stated that this would be my last term of office as Chairman.

Dear Editor, An examination and analysis of Gecom’s declared results of the 2011 elections would show that that close to 25% of the traditional PPP supporters either voted against the regime or stayed at home.

Dear Editor, I write in tribute to Lawrence D Carrington, the outgoing Vice-Chancel-lor of the University of Guyana, someone I came to know in my sabbatical year (2009-2010) and my eight-month visit in 2011.

Dear Editor, The report in the Kaieteur News of January 22, about Minister Pauline Sukhai being at the centre of a bitter land-grabbing row in Santa Rosa, Region 1, is a disrespect to the Minister of Amerindian Affairs.

Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon is bang-on with his position that the PPP has and has always had an authoritarian culture.