Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, A day care centre is one of two multi-million dollar projects in Region 2 which now stand as white elephants when the money so expended could have been beneficially utilized otherwise.

Dear Editor, I was wondering when someone would have seen it fit to comment on the misguided efforts of the Guyana Football Federation to ban Riddim Squad from the Kashif and Shanghai tournament.

Dear Editor, I am totally confused; I saw an advertisement on November 22, 2009 in the Kaieteur News informing the public that, among other things, the old age pension book distribution will continue until December 18, 2009.

Dear Editor, For those who read the notice from NIS in Sunday Stabroek of December 6,  indicating its intention of terminating its drug distribution programme to pensioners from December 31, ’09 it might not have had any impact on or made sense to the readers unless you happened to be a beneficiary.

Dear Editor, It amazes me that the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), after vigorously arguing and defending the position for a new national identification card, would have allowed an entire process to be completed without using the appropriate quality control protocols to ensure value for money was achieved.

Dear Editor, The newly installed Chancellor of the University of Guyana, in speaking at the recent dinner hosted by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was reported to have invited the private sector to contribute (substantially) more to education, and the University of Guyana in particular, which provided a good proportion of the skills and competencies the sector utilises.

Dear Editor, Sometimes you become gullible when you least know it and your gullibility leads to you becoming vulnerable.

Dear Editor, I read in your Monday issue (December 7) that the Guyana Football Federation is set to ban football club Riddim Squad from this year’s Kashif and Shanghai competition.

Dear Editor, For whatever reason, it seems by general acceptance that if one is not in the medical field, then one is forbidden to harbour, much less venture an opinion on any medical issue, or else you can be seen as pompous.

Dear Editor, Sometimes you become gullible when you least know it and your gullibility leads to you becoming vulnerable.

Dear Editor, “The extraordinary incidence of arson has many implications for public safety, private enterprise, and the insurance industry…”  So said SN’s timely editorial (8.12.09) titled, ‘Investigating arson.’ 

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana is making a serious effort to promote tourism in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Drug sentencing decisions in US Courts involving two Guyanese citizens are now official; a third awaits his fate. 

Dear Editor, Just a follow up to my letter dated 04/12/09 `GuySuCo’s way forward’, a little task for my brothers at the sugar corporation.

Dear Editor, A NACTA survey conducted in November shows House Speaker Ralph Ramkarran, Opposition Leader Robert Corbin, AFC leader Raphael Trotman, and popular TV talk show host C.N.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force (GPF) needs to implement a compulsory system for bail money lodged at the four stations In the Region #2 district located at Aurora, Suddie, Charity and the Divisional Headquarters at Anna Regina to be refunded from where it was lodged and no where else.

Dear Editor, A letter captioned `Economic security for Linden not a hopeless dream’ published in the Stabroek News, November 29 edition and carrying the name Sharma Solomon has caught the attention of some bloggers at home and abroad.

Dear Editor, In 2005 the Stabroek News published in its Christmas Day edition an article which for me was good and refreshing reading: `Does Santa really exist?’

Dear Editor, Hardly a day passes without one reading the horrible story of someone killed or maimed for life on one of Guyana’s roads.

Dear Editor, On Saturday, November 28, 2009 at around 6.45 pm in the presence of several residents of Le Destin, police officers instructed a visibly drunken driver to sit behind the wheel of a motor car and drive behind the police vehicle to their place of residence.