Letters to the Editor

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.

Dear Editor, The headmaster of Christianburg Wismar Secondary School has created some ruffles and brought into the open once again the Education Ministry’s new approach as it relates to poor performers by his forthright and determined opposition to its policy.

Dear Editor, A quick perusal of the Digicel website or even its brochures will reveal individuals with perky, exultant faces.

Dear Editor, My father was a cane-cutter and I grew up on a sugar estate.

Dear Editor, How far will Joel Simpson, Vidyaratha Kissoon and Antoine Craigwell go to fool the government and people of Guyana?

Dear Editor, The Commissioner of Police, the Traffic Chief, and the traffic officers did a marvellous job in relation to the UNASUR summit.

Dear Editor, I refer to your front page story of Sunday, December 12, 2010 headlined ‘Cessna landing in August at 63 Beach raises serious questions.’

Dear  Editor, The  Guyana Constitution provides that elections shall be independently supervised by the Guyana Elections Commission  (Article 62) The same article  refers us to Article 162 for the duties and powers provided.

Dear Editor, It is evident that the rising rate of road fatalities has done little to make errant drivers do an evaluation of the way they use the roadways.

Dear Editor, The year is coming to an end and Berbicians ought to know by now that they have been fooled and duped by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) – again.

Dear Editor, I have been a member of the PPP for about thirty years and of the PYO before that.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News on Monday, December 13, 2010, under the caption ‘A bad precedence [sic] has been set by the Divisional Commander’ and which dealt with the recent annual awards ceremony and luncheon held by police ranks in ‘A’ Division.

Dear Editor, There has recently been a lot of interest in the diagnostic services of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) by Mr Eusi Kwayana and others affected re prostate specific antigen tests, biopsies, etc, without any response by the powers-that-be.

Dear Editor, This coming Monday, December 20,  the United Nations General Assembly will vote on whether to include protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in a crucial resolution on extra-judicial executions and other unlawful killings.