Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, We all agree that the economic crisis has affected nearly every country in the world and has had a negative impact on the well-being of youths, but like many Guyanese I have doubts that the world economic crisis is the reason for the state of youths in Guyana.

Dear Editor, As I read Vishnu Bisram’s third lengthy letter, ‘Mehta’s letter was neither biased nor arrogant,’ (SN, August 15), denying my assertion that a member of President Jagdeo’s staff sought an invitation from the Federation of Indian Americans (FIA) for the president to attend the FIA activities, I was reminded of the quote from Sheakespeare’s Hamlet, “The lady doth protest too much.”

Dear Editor,   President Bharrat Jagdeo on August 11, 2011 at the Convention Centre said that young people needed to look back at the country’s history in order to defend its current progress. 

Dear Editor, Stabroek News of Tuesday 16 (p2) reports the Crime Chief as stating “We can’t charge without evidence.”

Dear Editor, It is extremely annoying and painful for whole areas to be without a telephone service. 

Dear Editor, I have been working at Toolsie Persaud for the past 33 years.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to correspondence by M Maxwell (KN,  August 15 and SN, August 16) with very similar titles requesting both papers to desist from publishing polls claimed to have been done by Mr Vishnu Bisram.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on one aspect of a letter titled ‘Most Guyanese will welcome the observer missions’ which was published in the Guyana Chronicle of August 13 under the name “T.

Dear Editor, While it is obvious that many clubs in Guyana have produced outstanding cricketers, such as Albion in Berbice and the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in Demerara, I must recognize the little village of Reliance on the Essequibo Coast that perhaps has created history in producing the most national cricketers in a single village at various levels.

Dear Editor, Many employees particularly in the junior staff category at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) are disheartened by the protracted delays in issuing pension refunds when an employee has resigned or is being paid off for some reason.

Dear Editor, In this perilous election season of historical revisionism and fable-making by our politicians, our president-economist turned historian has been playing dangerous games with our history.

Dear Editor, As I always said, the MMA ADA project was designed for dry weather and not the rainy season.

Dear Editor, I am a divorced mother with three children aged 6, 12, and 14 who all attend school. 

Dear Editor, It is a well established view that that politics is, among other things, about the use of state power to achieve the objectives of those who govern society.

Dear Editor, I am quite appalled at the news from  the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) that some students who accessed the results of the CSEC and CAPE examinations online tampered with their grades.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to news item on Mr CN Sharma’s advocacy for the photo of each of the presidential candidates to accompany the logo (symbol) and name of each of the parties. 

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News of August 15, there was a report on the Trey Songz show at the Stadium.

Dear Editor, Former military leader, and now democratically elected President of Suriname, Desi Bouterse, is keen to bring a positive international spotlight to his country.

Dear Editor, In Guyana, when those in charge of our economy talk in monetary terms, they talk in millions and billions of dollars which are spent to run our dear country.

Dear Editor, We have to question the activity and responsibility of some of our leaders in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the MPs in our respective regions where drugs are being transported by some members of the Force.