Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Yesterday was the day that old age pension books were distributed at the Diamond Market Tarmac.

Dear Editor, Ms Akola Thompson makes a studied and important contribution to the ongoing discussion about race and racism in Guyana’s context.

Dear Editor, I happened upon a scene that is the ominous core of Guyana. 

Dear Editor, With respect to your editorial `The President and fairness in the press’ (Nov 7) and recent letter comments about government conditioning its paid advertisements to Stabroek News and other media houses to ‘favourable’ coverage (reporting and editorializing), such behaviour is unethical and a violation of the basic norm of professional journalism.

Dear Editor, In his article ‘Any list deemed unacceptable by opposition parties is not fit to be used for free and fair elections’ (SN: 07/11/2019),  Mr.

Dear Editor, The government and, in particular, the Department of Public Information (DPI) have offered explanations for reducing the placement of state ads in the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, The Department of Public Information (DPI), in an excerpt from President David Granger’s interview of November 01 with Kaieteur Radio, quotes the President to say “My legacy is written on the faces of the people of this country and I’m very happy that I have been accepted as their President.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News’ article of November 4, 2019, under the caption `Those who died in the violence following Camp St jailbreak’, reports “As part of a public service journalism project to shed more light on that period Stabroek News has compiled from its archives a list of persons killed between February 23, 2002 and September 2006, their photographs where available and basic facts surrounding their cases.

Dear Editor, With reference to my letter in yesterday’s Stabroek News headlined `Republic Bank failed to meet its schedule in relation to online access’, I’m obliged to advise that there was progress yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) takes note of a letter contained in the Kaieteur News edition for 2019.11.7, which is titled: `Restructuring of GGMC untimely, belated action shows lack of strategic vision’.

Dear Editor, For a long time these words of Hannah Arendt have stood as the foundation of the free press: “The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen.

Dear Editor, Leaders like Mr. Donald Ramotar, as they seek to recount history, remind us of the level of disservice being done to this nation and its diverse people.

Dear Editor, In one of his rare encounters with the media the caretaker president, David Granger spoke glowingly about agriculture and food production.

Dear Editor, The Republic Bank gave advice, via two pieces of undated correspondence to the entity I’m employed by, that as a result of a platform upgrade, online access to accounts for the period November 01, 2019 to November 03, 2019 would not be possible.

Dear Editor, We seem to be back to where we were in September 1991 when the then Commissioner of National Registration, Ronald Jacobs published a Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) containing a large number of duplicate names with over 50,000 eligible voters missing from the said list.

Dear Editor, On the 21st October I delivered a letter to the City Engineer pointing out various blockages in the drains/alley from Quamina Street to Church Street.

Dear Editor, Agriculture not only provides food and raw material but also employment opportunities to a very large proportion of the population in Region #5.

Dear Editor, When a prominent person passes on some try to put words in their mouth that they never uttered and/or attribute actions to them that they never performed.

Dear Editor, In its Tuesday, November 5, 2019 edition, Stabroek News carried a letter bearing the caption `Waiting for 22 months on NIS sickness benefit”.

Dear Editor, Guyana Goldfields in January 2016 declared that it had commenced commercial operations at its Aurora Mine on January 1, 2016.