Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In response to the letter written to the editor of Stabroek News (‘Staff problems?’

Dear Editor, Ordinarily, I would have expected Kaieteur News, in support of its headlines of Monday, August 29, captioned ‘69M National Insurance Scheme Corriverton building,‘ to provide the basis for their comparison with the $9M cost of three other buildings they mentioned.For

Dear Editor, Firstly, let me say how encouraged I am by the performances of the Guyanese runners this year in Track and Field.

Dear Editor, I refer to ‘Future Notes – this gov’t does not have the legitimacy to solve the national ethnic dilemma‘ by Henry Jeffrey (SN, August 31).

Dear Editor, I unreservedly challenge, especially for the benefit of the young Afrikan mind, the stereotypes that (a) Afrikans are not motivated about acquiring wealth preferring to go after education; and (b) that we are lacking in the knowledge of commerce and entrepreneurship, as appears in a letter in the Stabroek News of August 23 (‘Did ACDA engage African Guyanese in the diaspora…‘). 

Dear Editor, I am an executive member of The United Force who has held the position for over a decade.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday August 17, 2011, the Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce Industry (UCCCI) received a grant of $28 000 from USAID to curb underage sexual activity with a portion of it to be used on the development of No 63 beach.

Dear Editor, An unfortunate incident occurred a few days when it was alleged that a youngster gesticulated offensively towards the presidential motorcade.

Dear Editor, I wish to make clear the history of Caribbean Aviation Maintenance Services Limited (CAMS) becoming a designated fuel handling agent at Ogle Airport, for the benefit of the public.

Dear Editor, I sat at home and observed for three-four days, as I have done from time to time over the years,   a coloured misty-like mixture of dust and smoke being discharged into the atmosphere from a towering metal chimney changing colour from pink-brown to gold-brown to peachlike to rust-brown.

Dear Editor, The following comment appeared on Demerara Waves below a picture of pickets protesting the charging a young man for allegedly showing the middle finger to a presidential convoy.

Dear Editor, This letter is a sincere appeal to all of our religious, youth, business, civil and political leaders to pause and take stock of the clear decline in our cultural condition.

Dear Editor, There is a businessman (name given) on the Goed Fortuin Public Road, WBD, who operates a car service.

Dear Editor, September marks the fourth month since the Lethem Power Company (LPC) decided to institute a reduced electricity supply to Lethem and its environs on the grounds that it was difficult to get a reliable supply of fuel for its generator due to the rainy season and the deteriorating GT-Lethem road.

Dear Editor, Limited as my exposure has been to Clem Seecharan’s authorship, ie, to Sweetening Bitter Sugar, I have been an admirer of his scholarship.

Dear Editor, It was with no small amount of amusement that I saw, at last, the shortlist for the Guyana Prize for Literature 2011.

Dear Editor, It is now known to all that football in Guyana is now class in the absence of Klass.

Dear Editor, Thank you for your letter dated August 23, 2011 seeking my response to a letter from Mr Mark Jacobs published in your newspaper on August 14, 2011, in relation to whether Guyana has a Consulate or Embassy in Haiti. 

Dear Editor,   ‘Business Page‘ of Sunday Stabroek of August 28, 2011 can be accused of scare-mongering.

Dear Editor, Being part of the local swimming fraternity, we were given the assurance that the new modern swimming pool would have been available in October, 2010.