Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, President Jagdeo believes the PPP’s ‘support’ for Amerindian communities will translate into votes.

Dear Editor, I write to applaud Guyanese community leaders, the Indo-Caribbean Federation, District Leader Dr Taj Rajkumar, Vishnu Mahadeo and other advocates in Richmond Hill, Queens, for hosting a wonderful, entertainment-packed holiday luncheon for senior citizens last Saturday at Villa Russo catering hall in the heart of the community. 

Dear Editor, The Christmas holidays are here and there will be hustle and bustle as citizens go about their usual shopping for this festive occasion.

Dear Editor, The threat by the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) to de-recognise the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) is intemperate and reckless.

Dear Editor, The recent controversy over the procedure adopted for compiling the nominations for presidential candidates by North American PNCR groups provides another opportunity to look into the prism of internal democracy in the PNCR.

Dear Editor, Stabroek Business reported that an anonymous “source close to the telecommunications sector” has advised that government should take seriously the position that granting an operating licence to an illegal operator would amount to rewarding it for illegality (‘Gov’t should ponder GT&T concern over draft law – telecoms source’ SN, December 17). 

Dear Editor, The rights of citizens to live and work in the region is under threat, and this is evident in the Guyana Government and Caricom denying Carl Greenidge the right to express his opinion at a private function as to how the country of his birth is being managed, yet at the same time Caricom did not raise a voice when more than two hundred young men were executed by phantom squads.

Dear Editor, In a SN article of Dec. 16, it was reported that Agriculture Minister Persaud has temporarily halted excavation of the Hope Canal because of adverse weather which he claimed threatened the integrity of the excavators and/or excavation.

Dear Editor, Devanand Bhagwan’s letter captioned ‘When should we cross the line in defying the law’ (SN, December 18) takes a disingenuous look at the issue involving Mark Benschop and the consequence of his protest over that environmentally health hazardous garbage dumpsite situated in a particular community in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Never perhaps in our time has such an impact been made by a social network called Facebook (FB).

Dear Editor, I’ve observed recently that a lot has been written about GuySuCo as result of the unfortunate  situation in which it has found itself, chief among them the Skeldon Factory debacle, in circumstances where the factory was intended to significantly reduce production costs.

Dear Editor, The Christmas season brings back memories of an “ole Guyana X-mas” which is a unique experience, a celebration that lasts weeks, very different from a New York X-Mas which is short and which lacks all the fun things done in Guyana. 

Dear Editor, By the time this letter is published, GT&T’s telephone licence, which was granted on December 19, 1990 for a period of twenty years, will have expired. 

Dear Editor, Your article ‘IDB unveils $$ for eight Marriott hotels’ (SN, Dec 16) illustrates clearly how hotels are financed in the real world, through private sector investments by banks and other financial institutions, not taxpayers’ moneys.

Dear Editor, On October 7, 2010 I got a call from a friend and animal lover telling me of a Pitbull called Tiger, locked in a kennel at what had once been Neesa Gopaul’s home.

Dear Editor, In response to a letter in your newspaper dated December 15, 2010 and captioned ‘ECG service at Georgetown Hospital not available because of “lack of paper,”’ management would first like to thank the author for highlighting the problem and must advise that it exists because the local suppliers of the paper required for the machine had supplied the incorrect type, inter alia, and as a result the hospital had to source it from an overseas vendor, but it is yet to be delivered.

Dear Editor, The verbal skirmish in Cancun (‘Jagdeo complains in front of Norway PM that forest funds still unavailable’ (SN, December 9)  has provided commentators and bloggers with a nice little pre-Christmas present and much has already been said and written about the president’s un-presidential behaviour.

Dear Editor, I understand the government’s desire to try and attract visitors.

Dear Editor, We have read Mr Khan’s complaint about the music level at the Digicel store in Cotton Field on the Essequibo Coast (‘An inconsiderate marketing strategy’ SN, December 17).

Dear Editor, I salute Mark Benschop for his concern for the environment and the residents being affected by the dumpsite in Cemetery Road.