Letters to the Editor

Wheat was important in Hindu religious rites

Dear Editor, I am in writing in response to Mr Hamilton Green’s defence of Forbes Burnham’s policy of banning the consumption of wheat (and other essential foreign imports) so as to promote the use of local products (‘Had the project to produce rice flour not been suffocated, we would have been proudly eating bread, pastries from local grain,’ SN, August 23). 

SN editorial was divisive

Dear Editor, I refer to the Stabroek News editorial on Monday, September 6, titled ‘The Buxton visit,’ where an attempt was made to politicize President Jagdeo’s recent visit to Buxton.

The Amerindian Act 2006 has not yet been brought into force

Dear Editor, A GINA release in early March 2008, reported that the Amerindian Act, 2006 passed on February 16, 2006 and assented to by the President on March 14, 2006 had “paved the way for Amerindians to empower themselves socially, economically and politically.”

A ‘mirror image’

Dear Editor, In his  September 5, 2010  column  in another section of the press, Mr Ravi Dev has called me ‘Elder Kwayana,’ and says  that I am the eminence grise  of Buxton – the grey eminence.

There seems to be a growing rift at the PPP leadership level over the succession

Dear Editor, PPP veteran, Mr Moses Nagamootoo’s publicly expressed aversion to the ‘state sponsorship’ of the PPP General Secretary as the party’s presidential candidate comes hard on the heels of another party veteran, Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s inadvertent public indictment of the Jagdeo administration when he said if, as the party’s candidate, he becomes President, he will make corruption one of the first three areas he will tackle.

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