Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, For those of us old enough, let us make a thirty-year comparison with how Georgetown felt and looked then, to its current state now in 2011.

Dear Editor, It has been three weeks now since a call was made to GWI about overflowing sewage in Fourth Street, Alberttown, coming up through the gully.

Dear Editor, I feel that finally the victims of rape in Guyana are on the road to receiving some amount of justice for what happened to them after reading that Justice Winston Patterson had sentenced a man to 50 years in prison for raping an underage girl.

Dear Editor, Having already addressed the President’s food security challenge highlighted in his purportedly last address to the UN last Thursday, I now turn my attention to his energy security reference.

Dear Editor, Why don’t governments stop wasting money to have an army, navy or air force.

Dear Editor, Some time this week, it was brought to the attention of the local Facebook community that management of the National Communi-cations Network (NCN) had banned the music of Jamaican dancehall artiste, Vybz Kartel.

Dear Editor, Two years ago I wrote a letter saying that fishermen should get gun licences.

Dear Editor, The government needs to rescind the contract awarded to Synergy Holdings Inc, for the construction of the road leading to the site of the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project, and re-tender with the aim of securing a competent contractor to rectify the shortcomings as identified in the report by international consultants BBFL Caribbean Ltd and Earth Investigation Systems Ltd.

Dear Editor, The FIFA 26-month ban on Colin Klass comes as a breath of fresh air.

Dear Editor, Guyana is now at a point where noise nuisance is an offence and can be stopped.

Dear Editor, I have just been informed that the popular religious programme ‘Up close and personal‘ which is aired on Sundays by the Fruits of Calvary Church has been pulled off the air.

Dear Editor, In your Thursday, September 22 news article, ‘President lays out four security challenges for world at UN,‘ the four challenges were listed as food security, energy security, resource security and climate security.

Dear Editor, GWI wishes to express gratitude to your publication for highlighting the statements made by Jocelyn Morian regarding the Kwakwani water supply in the Tuesday, September 20, 2011 edition of the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, In December 2010, the New Guyana Marketing Corporation, in response to “hoarding” by greedy shopkeepers, set up a number of distribution points for sugar and rice as part of the Ministry of Agriculture’s “anti-price gouging” exercise. 

Dear Editor, I understand the President of the WICB visited Guyana not so long ago.

Dear Editor, On public roads or highways, it is imperative that drivers, pedestrians and all other persons using same be guided by signs, being traffic or otherwise.

Dear Editor, The residents of the entire Essequibo Coast are without electricity since 4 am this morning (Thursday).

Dear Editor, I write about my area, West Coast Berbice, but I know this happens all over Guyana.

Dear Editor, Balwant Persaud said he conducted an unscientific poll in August 2011.

Dear Editor, Preventing crime and reducing fear of crime, are both central to APNU’s objectives for restoring safe communities.