Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The AFC has presented its Action Plan. It would be the first manifesto to be unveiled, marking the start of a new phase of the election cycle.

Dear Editor, I wish to draw attention to a letter headlined ‘The indigenous people are wiser now’ in SN of January 28, penned by  Martin Cheong.

Dear Editor, The decline of education in Guyana since the 1980s has been a major concern for every educated Guyanese citizen.

Dear Editor, Minister of Human Services Ms Priya Manickchand behaved with apoplectic rage in response to a conclusion in a report by her parliamentary colleague Mrs Sheila Holder that the number of persons to whom the Old Age Pension (OAP) is paid is inflated by 17,640 (phantom persons, according to Mrs Holder) with a loss to the state of over $1.3 billion.

Dear Editor, Recently there has been an increase in prosecutions by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) against registrants under the VAT Act, who for various reasons, have failed to file VAT returns as required by law. 

Dear Editor, When the criminal charge against the two police officers who were involved in the teen-torture case was dismissed, I submitted that it was then too late to institute disciplinary proceedings against them at the departmental level.

Dear Editor, A statistician, letter writers, bloggers and Minister Manickchand have responded to Mrs Sheila Holder’s thesis of phantom pensioners by proposing projected data on the number of individuals above the age of 65.

Dear Editor, I refer to two letters published in the Guyana Chronicle by ghost writers about Navin Chandarpal.

Dear Editor, “Optimal.” That is the word Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, used to describe law and order in Guyana.

Dear Editor, What to make of the comments attributed to the Minister Rohee in your article on Tuesday?

Dear Editor,The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) has been recognized by the Trade Union Recognition Board by a certificate issued on February 28, 2007 to represent workers employed at Linden Electricity Inc (LEI), a company owned by the Government of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Almost nine per cent of the government’s planned expenditure in the 2011 national budget depends upon receipt of US$70M from Norway, under the MoU signed on November 9, 2009. 

Dear Editor, The people of Egypt are demonstrating that dictatorship has an expiry date.

Dear Editor, Guyana is an absolute power kind of country thanks to several factors.

Dear Editor, If the situation in Egypt has taught us anything it is that there is no room for dictatorships in this world.

Dear Editor, I recall the President saying a few years ago, in response to questions about corruption, that accusers should bring him the evidence so that he could deal with it.

Dear Editor, Whilst driving on Thursday, January 20, I was stopped by a traffic constable who informed me that he was instructed by the Sergeant in charge of the Traffic Division to tell me to drive into the Anna Regina Police station compound, which I did.

Dear Editor, Saturday night on NCN Channel 11, I heard Bishop Juan Edghill express delight during the Harmony Walk panel discussion, that they were receiving calls from the far flung areas of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Cognisant of statements attributed to the President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Mr Colin Bynoe, concerning the arrest of teacher Ronald Forde at the Fort Wellington Secondary School, West Coast Berbice, on Monday January 24, 2011, which have been published in the media, the Guyana Police Force is refuting claims that excessive force was used, that heavily armed ranks blocked the entrance to the school, that the teacher was arrested in his classroom, and that students were taken away for interviewing without the Headmaster’s consent, and wishes to clarify the matter.

Dear Editor, I am the wife of the chauffeur who worked for Mr Chandarpal from 1996 to 2009.