Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Early in the year 1996, the fifth year of the “return to democracy,” some Trinidad and Tobago academics invited me to give a public talk at St Augustine on ‘Race and Politics in Guyana.’

Dear Editor, On May1, 2008, I wrote a letter to the editor on ‘Literacy in Guyana.’

Dear Editor, I am replying to the editor’s note appended at the bottom of my letter titled ‘MT Lowe remembered differently by some’ (SN, December 2). 

Dear Editor, We are a group of women who have begun to come together to discuss the burdens weighing on us.

Dear Editor, I worked with Guyana Elections Commission during the claims and objections period from December 28 to February 7 as a cleaner at the Goed Bananen Land Health centre, Region 6 (New Amsterdam Registration office).

Dear Editor, With much satisfaction, I read the article ‘Sex felon doc fired’ in your edition of Wednesday,  December 1.

Dear Editor, Dr Madan Rambaran takes the cake with his letter titled ‘We should seek to keep the discourse on Dr Vishwamintra Persaud intelligent and civilized’ (SN, December 1) Dr Rambaran says in his opening line “The issues pertaining to Dr Vishwamintra Persaud are already sufficiently complex and difficult.”

Dear Editor, I have never had reason neither do I have any intention of indulging in a dialogue that borders on ‘buse out.’

Dear Editor, We the following eight Toshaos of the Upper Mazaruni are demanding an unqualified apology from Mr Peter Persaud, who in his letter that appeared in the Guyana Chronicle of November 9, 2010, calls us dishonest and liars for trying to protect our rights (‘Yvonne Pearson was quite in order’).

Dear Editor, Stabroek News (‘Sacrifices have to be made by GuySuCo, sugar workers,’ November 29) reports that in an article in the Mirror newspaper, PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar, after explaining the history of confrontation in the sugar industry beginning with slavery and indenture, added “Now we have a new dispensation with a government sympathetic to the working people.

Owing to a typographical error the note at the end of the first table in Dr Henry Jeffrey’s letter (‘Guyana needs to carefully consider its quest for regionalism’ November 27) was incorrectly rendered “*2005 data: 2009 not provided.”

Dear Editor, I am responding to the news story ‘Educator MT Lowe passes on’ (SN, Nov 30).

Dear Editor, I refer to a contribution by Mr Eusi Kwayana on the capacity of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation to diagnose prostate patients (‘Is it true that Georgetown hospital is not equipped to provide biopsies for prostate patients?’

Dear Editor, I would be very grateful if you can publish this letter so that someone in the Ministry of Human Services can be made aware of the plight of Mr Abrams.

Dear Editor,With the Christmas season approaching one frequently hears talk about folks residing overseas who are planning to be home for the holidays.

Dear Editor, Correspondence which I received from Mr Rod Grimes-Graeme confirms that the structure which was opposite the Parliament Building was also once the terminal building at Mackenzie.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs should be getting reading for another important heads of government meeting, the Arab-South American Summit, the brainchild of President Lula da Silva of Brazil to be held in Lima, Peru on February 3, 2011.  

Dear Editor,Whenever I learn of an almost miraculous rescue I feel elated.

Dear Editor, The issues pertaining to Dr Vishwamintra Persaud are already sufficiently complex and difficult.

Dear Editor, The United Nations on the eve of the new millennium in 1999 through its Secretary General Kofi Annan suggested the idea of a Global Compact, which would involve major international companies signing on to some universal principles of responsible business behaviour.