Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, While the government’s new proposed regulation requiring a six-month notification period signals a move in the right direction, there is legitimate concern that the government has failed to engage in a careful analysis of it before recommendation or implementation. Here

Dear Editor, I write to applaud the NY-based Guyanese for their generosity in rising to the occasion to assist our Haitian brethren when calamity struck last month.

Dear Editor, I have noted all of the responses and personal attacks directed at me in the last days and put it all down to the usual political drivel.

Dear Editor, The issue of the President’s overseas travel has been the subject of comment by the Auditor General’s office as far back as 2003.

Dear Editor, The SN of February 6 reported that a child from Berbice was found guilty of wandering (‘Blairmont boy, 12, sent to NOC for three years’).

Dear Editor, I suggest that your editorial ‘Respect’ (Sunday Stabroek, February 7) misses a major point when it attributes the implicit terms of reference of the President’s new Land Use Committee to the Norway-Guyana MoU. 

Dear Editor, Members of the diaspora can draw critical attention to topical concerns, provided information is not withheld. 

Dear Editor, It is with sadness and disbelief that I read of the death of Professor Nettleford.

Dear Editor, First, I take strong umbrage with Dr Joey Jagan who contemptuously wrote in his letter, ‘Shared governance is what we really need,’ (SN, February 8), that the Alliance of Change’s “five seats in Parliament following the 2006 polls under the present constitutional arrangements, is really a ticket to nowhere.”

Dear Editor, A lot of articles and features miss our eyes in the newspapers.

Dear Editor, The quick action taken by President Jagdeo assigning the workload on the Haiti matter to Minister Manickchand, was truly magnificent.

In a letter published in this newspaper on Thursday, February 4 under the caption ‘A false journalism,’ the signatory, Dr Prem Misir, included a quotation by Cicero.

Dear Editor, Rex’s passing was sudden and untimely and it has taken some time to come to terms with it.

Dear Editor, I refer to the recent articles in both the SN and KN, reporting Mr Corbin’s statements concerning the revelations by Mr Trotman and the AFC that there are ongoing “secret” talks between the PPP and PNC, and furthermore, Mr Trotman’s insinuation that there is something sinister in such talks. 

Dear Editor, The actions of some police officers are nothing short of distasteful, and are proving to be very counter-productive to the efforts of those who truly seek to ‘serve and protect.’

Dear Editor, An eminent Guyanese educator turned politician, named Robert Hart, was a columnist in one of our newspapers in the nineteen fifties.

Dear Editor, Although over the recent years, the Suddie Public Hospital has undergone some remarkable changes in its infrastructure, the poor quality of services offered remains a critical issue which needs urgently to be addressed.

Dear Editor, What is it that prompts a citizen to pick up the pen of the keyboard to address fellow citizens? 

Dear Editor, All irrigation water contains dissolved salts derived as it passes over and through the land, and rainwater also contains some salts.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to reports published in the Kaieteur News, Stabroek News and Guyana Chronicle on Thursday, February 4, dealing with an incident at Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden, involving members of a community policing group and other residents, and which appeared to indicate that the community policing members were wrongfully arrested by the police.