Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write to comment on the news article `Indian Government  mired in giant graft scandal’ (SN Nov 17). 

Dear Editor, There has been a lot going on in the sugar industry over the past six years and we should all pay some attention since it is of national interest.

Dear Editor,I refer to an article in the Stabroek News of November 18 titled ‘NICIL handled Pradoville 2 land transfer -officials mum on tendering, allocations.’

Dear Editor, With reference to the ‘Historical Snippet’ feature on St George’s Cathedral in your November 7 issue, please be advised that half-timbering is not a kind of decoration.

Dear Editor,I read the PNC’s outline of its approved route to its presidential candidate’s nomination.

Dear Editor, I would like to compliment Mr Panchu for expressing his views on what has become more than a nuisance (cattle grazing) to the residents of Continental, Republic and Nandy Park (‘Urban cattle-rearing should no longer be tolerated’ SN, November 19).

Dear Editor, Recent articles carried in the Stabroek News editions of the November 6 and 17 [sic], that sought to highlight the health situation and conditions in the Amer-indian Village of Tobago in the Maba-ruma Sub-Region of Region One do require a response from me, lest the selective picture of neglect painted by the writer of these hyperboles become entrenched in the minds of the unsuspecting and unaware among our Guyanese populace.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in SN of November 18 where it was stated that the building on High Street opposite the Parliament Building being torn down had been the terminal of the Mackenzie Airport, while the headline of that letter read: ‘The former Bureau of Statistics building now being torn down was once the airport terminal at what is now the CJIA.’

Dear Editor, I refer to the article ‘Repeat offenders becoming a nuisance to the society’ set out at page 12 of the Kaieteur News of Friday November 19, 2010.

Dear Editor, I was receiving medication from NIS from February 1998 until NIS stopped giving medication to pensioners at the end of 2009.

Dear Editor, My father, a contractor has been self employed for 33 years.

Dear Editor, Indian-Guyanese (as well as non-Indians) and other people of Indian origin (PIO) face serious health issues that are either hereditary or caused by their eating habits and lifestyle. 

Dear Editor, The shocking figure of $85,971 per month for an engineer was pulled from the same e-procurement website the government set up to rob the independent print media of ads in a barefaced attempt to destroy press freedom and democracy in turn.

Dear Editor, The incongruity of man, his arrogance and total disrespect for the law are aptly demonstrated every morning by a small band of cattle minders who take their herds to graze in a highly residential area where home-owners have spent huge sums to improve and preserve the aesthetics of their properties but where animals are allowed to freely roam and destroy, not only beautiful and healthy plants and manicured parapets and lawns, but the spirit of humanity and human dignity.

Dear Editor, The caption to the letter which appeared in your edition of November18 should have read as follows: ‘The former Bureau of Statistics building now being torn down was once the        terminal at Mackenzie airport.”

Dear Editor, I was beyond livid on reading government’s response to and treatment of your news reporter seeking information about the recent Sparendaam deal (‘NICIL handled Pradoville 2 land transfer,’ November 18).

Dear Editor, “Over the years and during my membership of the Consumer Movement of Guyana (CMOG) I have written a number of articles on the deteriorating road transportation environment and made oral and other submissions to the powers that be.

Dear Editor, It is with deep regret that I pen this letter to you pertaining to the poor customer service received while visiting the Balwant Singh Hospital on East Street, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I am sure I speak on behalf of many other parents of athletes when I say that we are extremely proud of what our children accomplished at the recently concluded Nationals.

Dear Editor, On the East Coast and Berbice/Corentyne, West Coast/Essequibo, East Bank, West Bank, a median  one-foot wide should be erected where the road is broad enough so as to avoid collisions with oncoming traffic.