Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, We refer to the letter in your letter column of Wednesday April 27, 2011 captioned `Given the poor support from the gov’t, the artists community is shocked by the size of the budget allocation to the Culture Ministry’.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee has carried out his threats of getting the police to question me about the refugee case I won for the IT specialist in Canada.

Dear Editor, The one laptop per family that is promised by the government has seen the opposition parties, the communications specialists and also the beneficiaries all are making comments and quite rightly so.

Dear Editor, Christopher Ram’s latest correspondence to your Sunday Stabroek (`The GLTA never demanded a percentage of the Sport Ministry’s budget” – 24 April 2011) again reeks of feigned dissatisfaction with initial responses to his original Business Page – distortions of the Ministry, its allocations and the alleged “mystery” Fund.

Dear Editor, As I reflect upon statements made during the failed no-confidence motion against me from councillors Patricia Chase-Green, Gwen McGowan-French, CML John, Ranwell Jordan and Junior Garrett, it is difficult to accept declarations that this was not a personal vendetta, if not, then explain the public statements, which were clearly defamatory.

Dear Editor, I am following up the New York Times article featuring the clash between Guyanese Hindus conducting pooja at Rockaway Bay and park rangers (SN Apr 22). 

Dear Editor, I should explain that the views expressed in my letter of 29th April, 2011 `Mr Fenty’s column did not disclose that he had been hired to produce ad for Air Services’, are my personal views and not the views of Ogle Airport Inc.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago, as I was paying my bill in advance, I asked a Digicel Representative if the Blackberry that I had bought from them was stolen and I gave them the  IEMI number, if they could find it when the unlawful holder activated the phone.

Dear Editor, Reference is being made to an article written by Mr.

Dear Editor, Allan Fenty, the Stabroek News columnist of “Frankly Speaking”, needs to distinguish between Fenty the columnist and the Fenty hired by Guyenterprise to produce an advertisement on behalf of a client, Air Services Ltd.

Dear Editor, Incivility refers to our lack of civil behaviour – our general lack of good manners – of professionalism at work and a seeming lack of awareness that this poses any kind of problem for anyone.

Dear Editor, At the last Statutory Meeting of the Region Two Regional Democratic Council (R.D.C)

Dear Editor Permit me a few lines to highlight the good work of local television station and its sponsors, BTV Channel 2. 

Dear Editor, It was good to see a report on the current internal auditing workshop on “Audit Report Writing” and “Interviewing Techniques” in the newspapers.

Dear Editor, It is a curiousity that the Guyana Teachers’ Union should feel elated about having ‘negotiated’ a 5% annual increase on existing Teachers’ salary scales, when their Public Service counterparts have been involuntarily receiving the same level of increase over the past several years, without representation, or even, in instances, not working to earn it.

Dear Editor, Without an explanatory article in the Press, the Guyana Forestry Commission has recently posted documents which appear to relate to the illegal and improper issue of two forest concessions to the Vaitarna (VHPI) subsidiary of the Indian coffee retailer, Coffee Day. 

Dear Editor, They have pounced on Tacuma Ogunseye because he called on African Guyanese  to join marches in the villages to press for their inclusion in official decision making in a country they have inhabited for centuries.

Dear Editor, When Agriculture Minister Mr. Robert Persaud held his press conference on April 12, 2011 to defend the permit/agreement over 1.82 million acres granted to the Indian company Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc.,

Dear Editor, The Honourable Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has given us, in a rare intervention of its kind, the benefit of his views on the call for shared governance and the Afro-Guyanese situation (SN letter of April 27 “So long as rigged elections ….by

Dear Editor, A letter on, among other things the PNC rigging (SN April 27), signed by Prime Minister Sam Hinds, was published by your newspaper on the same day as one written by myself on the same subject.