Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am writing on behalf of myself and colleagues in the Schools’ Welfare Service.

Dear Editor, Driving south on New Garden Street I spotted a horse tangled in its rope in the mall across from Prime News.

Dear Editor, Whenever I heard Rex Nettleford speak or read his writings I was reassured that I was part of something special.

Dear Editor, It is not in the modus operandi of the Guyana Elections Commission to respond to every bit of abuse and malignancy directed at the Commission and its Secretariat. 

Dear  Editor, Please allow us to use your letter pages to report on the amount we have so far raised to support grassroots women in Haiti following the devastating January 12 earthquake and to thank our donors.

Dear Editor, While there was much to applaud in the Guyana Chronicle’s Thursday, January 28, 2010 editorial ‘Domestic and other abuses sanctioned by wider society,’ the attacks on “many NGOs” that work against domestic and sexual abuse and on one (unnamed) NGO in particular, cannot go unchallenged.

Dear Editor, It’s too early to make any kind of projections but the approval recently of the controversial Amazon hydroelectric project in Para state by Brazil’s Environment Ministry is bound to have an impact on other potential upcoming hydroelectric projects in the region.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Bartica police and marshals. During the Feb 1 miners’ demonstration in Bartica, everything was very peaceful and orderly.

Dear Editor, I am a poor debater and have no passion for winning an argument.

Dear Editor, In 1987 a white Zimbabwean voter, who, when asked by a journalist for whom he had voted in the elections, replied, “I never voted for Ian Smith.

Dear Editor, A country whose citizens trust their government can achieve much more economically and socially than a non-trusting nation.

Dear Editor, It is exactly one year since we submitted plans to construct a modern security and business complex at 203 Light Street, Bourda.

Dear Editor, Last August was the last time I saw her.

Dear Editor, There’s a famous exchange in Brecht’s play The Life of Galileo in which Andrea says, “Unhappy the land that has no heroes,” and Galileo replies, “No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.” 

Dear Editor, The Barticians have collectively voiced their dissatisfaction at the government’s mining policy.

Dear Editor, It behoves me as one who is thrilled by humanitarian efforts to congratulate the team at Three Rivers Kids Foundation for doing an awesome job on behalf of the Guyanese community.

Dear Editor, I have been struggling to comprehend the recent writing of learned men published in our dailies, analyzing the period of Burnham-PNC rule and the advent of the WPA-Walter Rodney contribution, alongside that of Cheddi Jagan-PPP. 

Dear Editor, At the end of a wonderful visit to my beloved shores for the Christmas holidays, I patronized one of our renowned jewellery establishments (King’s Jewellery World, Quamina Street), enticed by their advertisement on the national television stations. 

Dear Editor, Good news for Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited depositors; the assets of that unworthy institution are to be sold (SN, January 27).

Dear Editor, The steady increase in violence against women recently inspired action by the government, religious bodies and civil society.