Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It is becoming more difficult to traverse the roadway between Success to Better Hope on the East Coast of Demerara due to heavy traffic build-ups.

Dear Editor, The idea that Indians are voting race because of fear has replaced, in some narrations, one of the politicians’s explanations that was current from the fifties and which had become a standard by the end of the twentieth century.

Dear Editor, Allow me to vary a well-known biblical injunction and assert that, “dissensions will always arise, but woe to those who fan the flames of dissension.” 

Dear Editor, The debate around the use of the secret ballot to select the presidential candidate for the People’s Progressive Party, of which I am a long-standing member and activist, is heating up.

Dear Editor,Everyone knows that we should make purchases using the metric system such as metre, litre and gram, but this does not happen with the general populace.

Dear Editor, The rift between the two Demerara Cricket Boards seems to be ultimately based on the disagreement about the number of delegates/votes from Georgetown, West Coast, West Bank, East Bank, and East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the cartoon which was published under the title ‘Politikles’ in the Stabroek News of Monday, February 7.

Dear Editor, I had to purchase a postage stamp to post someone a Valentine card and to my chagrin and disappointment discovered that the stamp had no adhesive paste on its back.

Dear Editor, I would like to highlight the poor customer service being meted out to residents of Cummings Lodge by the Guyana Water Inc.

Dear Editor, I refer to this laptop for families episode, and the pious statements by our Head of State to the effect that, the Kaieteur News is now, as he puts it, a part of the opposition, and is trying to deny citizens the opportunity to share and obtain information.

Dear Editor, I would like to thank the Mayor for responding to my letter, reference the illegal bush truck business in Anira Street.

Dear Editor, The efforts by both the PNC and the PPP to conclude the process of selecting their presidential candidate seems to be moving apace.

Dear Editor, The vexing question of the non-upliftment of voter ID cards has been before the nation for some significant period of time now.

Dear Editor, Abu Bakr’s February 5 letter in SN, ‘Have the ex-ROAR members of the AFC influenced its thinking?’

Dear Editor, As reported in SN of Feb 9, a site inspection team from the Ministry of Education concluded without checking other possible contributory causes that high wind loads on the morning of Feb 6 created pressures or suction on the sloping windward roof of the library building of the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) causing about 75 % of its zinc sheets to be blown off.

Dear Editor, Section 66 of the Tax Act, Chapter 80:01 of the Laws of Guyana states “The President is exempted from Taxation.”  

Dear Editor, I was recently stopped by the traffic police in Lethem who have been undertaking an extended traffic campaign in the area; definitely more extensive than at any time in recent memory.

Dear Editor, Olga Lopes-Seale was not only an announcer and involved with the Radio Needy Children’s Fund, but she was also a singer.

Dear Editor, Parkside Steel Orchestra arguably remains the modern Guyanese steel pan music standard-bearer which continues to redefine musical excellence with every performance.

Dear Editor, Mr VC Bird, the father of the nation of Antigua, once said, “gravel don’t travel,” and what he meant was that as Prime Minister of Antigua (for many years), his policy towards foreign and local investors was to invite them into Antigua, knowing full well that any hotels, condos, docks, beach development, housing construction, commercial buildings, etc, could not be dismantled and taken out but left to the general wealth of the people of Antigua.