Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The PPP’s presidential candidate, Mr Donald Ramotar, recently expressed the view that he sees nothing fundamentally wrong with the Burnham constitution.

Dear Editor, In his letter (‘Ram and Bulkan need to start getting their facts right,’ SN April 15), Dr Roger Luncheon, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, says – “Mr Ram and Dr Bulkan (as well as Mr Ramjattan and others) claimed in a letter to Norwegian Minister Erik Solheim that the only justification for the Amaila Hydro Power project was a one-and-a-half page entry in the LCDS.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn last week to a letter appearing in two of the daily newspapers’ letter columns calling for the establishment of an IMC for cricket in Guyana (‘The Minister should install an interim board at the GCB’ SN, April 9).

Dear Editor, It has been reported that Mr Everard Franklin of GAP/ROAR has accused Peter Ramsaroop of “treachery,” etc, concerning the unity of JOPP; I would just like to state for the record, that I find it very strange that Mr Franklin would make such allegations when he, Mr Hardy and Mr Dev with the backing of the AFC, in the intensive deliberations leading up to the 2006 elections, were the ones who were responsible for the break-up of the Third Force platform which we were trying to put together.

Dear Editor, The absence of the Guyana Football Federation President or an official representative from the inaugural Scotia Bank/Pepsi/ Guyana Sports Development Foundation (GSDF) Schools Football Academy, which was officially launched on Saturday, April 12, 2011 at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue, should at least be of major concern to all and sundry.

Dear Editor, 2011 being the election year for Guyana, it’s nice to see the politicians putting the needs of Guyanese on the back bench while they bicker with one another.

Dear Editor, Given our endowment of rice agricultural lands here in Region 2, it is a matter of common sense to expand the Aurora irrigation scheme in Region 2; that should be one of the main planks of our development strategy.

Dear Editor, It’s with great pleasure that I commend the bold efforts of Messrs Donald Duff and Marlon Munroe, Sports Editor and journalist respectively, for the extensive coverage on the football saga that Stabroek Sports has been providing almost on a daily basis for the past two weeks.

Dear Editor, I thank Dr Roger Luncheon for his attempt by way of a press release issued through his office to educate me about the Amaila Falls Hydro-Electric Project (AFHEP).

Dear Editor, Mr Donald Ramotar is very much an insider and has no other sensible choice but to stand by the record of the PPP/C government.

Dear Editor, I refer to Christopher Ram’s letter of April 11 in SN, captioned ‘Serious questions remain about the LCDS including the wisdom of putting Norway funds into the Amaila project.’

Dear Editor, After performing my morning chores on April 7, that included tending to my kitchen garden (it is flourishing) I placed some coffee to ‘perk’ and realized that nothing was happening. 

Dear Editor, Minibus drivers and conductors provide an invaluable service to Guyanese.

Dear Editor, I read with interest in the Stabroek News that a Guyanese couple has been granted refugee status in Canada.

Dear Editor, With regard to your news item and letter on the selection of the WIndies 20/20 team, I don’t think the WIndies management and selection committee is serious about turning around the team to make it world class.

Dear Editor, The scenes from India’s triumph in the World Cup final were a spectacle to behold.

Dear Editor, With reference to the information from the press conference held by Minister Robert Persaud on April 12 about VHPI and reported variously in all three daily newspapers on April 13, perhaps you could jog the memory of Minister Robert Persaud about the wording of the National Forest Policy and the procedures of the Guyana Forestry Commission for handling applications for logging concessions? 

Dear Editor, Unhappily the statutory meeting of the Mayor and City Council on April 11 ended in disorder.

Dear Editor, In a letter in SN dated April 13 and captioned, ‘Consensus represents an ideal state,’ Mr Hydar Ally praised the PPP leadership as being very democratic and speaks of persons being able to subordinate their aspirations for the collective good of the organization – mind you not the good of the members, the supporters or the people of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s public sector monthly minimum wage at the end of 2010 was $33,207 per month or $398,484 per year.