Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Another year to remember and celebrate the lives of those lost defending their grateful nation.

Dear Editor, West Indies plays its first match in this year’s World Cup against Pakistan today, and fans are hoping that the Caribbean squad will perform well.

Dear Editor, I have been vocal in my call and rigorous in the campaign to see the decriminalisation of small amounts of marijuana, which would see young people not being jailed in the event that they possess minute portions of that particular herb.

Dear Editor, With respect to the letter you were good enough to publish on Wednesday May 29, 2019 titled `Report of COI into the Public Service should be used to inform work of this high-level Committee’, I shall be most grateful if you will publish a correction to the effect that the COI Report referred to, was actually laid in Parliament on May 24, 2016.

Dear Editor, It is stories like Kodi Lee’s that make me want to give every child a chance to live.

Dear Editor, I recall a statement made some years ago by an African leader who lamented the fact that in Africa there is underdevelopment with consultancies whereas in Europe there is development without consultancies.

Dear Editor, Comrade Lincoln Lewis’ dispute with Mr. Freddie Kissoon has brought into the public domain some issues which the University of Guyana Unions must comment on. 

Dear Editor, Several weeks ago, I found it necessary to address some tendentious claims carried in your newspaper and to lament the deficit in journalistic professionalism reflected in the fact that no effort was made to verify the assertions by checking with officials at the university or getting a comment from me.

Dear Editor, Magic Johnson of Los Angeles Laker glitter and immortality and the encircled Guyana Gold Board in the same sentence? 

Dear Editor, Nearly a century ago in 1921, Lenin told his people that to get to communism the whole of the Soviet Union needed electric power.

Dear Editor,  I read the letter by Michael B Joseph, Finance Secretary, published by Stabroek News yesterday `Reported statement by Auditor General on procurement breaches is astonishing’  with some astonishment. 

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr. Ralph Ramkarran’s column, `At 53, it’s time to place a political solution on the agenda’ (SN May 26).

Dear Editor, In your letter column on Sunday May 26, 2019 there appears a meme by way of a response authored by Mr.

Dear Editor, My attention is drawn to an article titled, `Breach of Procurement Act more frequent under APNU+AFC Govt’ published by online news outfit, Guyana Standard, on May 21, 2019.

Dear Editor, According to SN’s report of Friday May 24, 2019, Presidential action will be taken shortly to establish a ‘high-level committee on Public Service’.

Dear Editor, There is news via the Department of Public Information that Teacher Ms Benjamin has had to work on her own initiative to improve literacy in St Winefride’s Secondary School.

Dear Editor, It is good to know that the Organization of American States (OAS) has offered to render assistance to the electoral processes in the impending elections.

Dear Editor, With reference to the television programme which was done by final year students from the Language and Society II, Berbice Campus which was aired on the 23rd of April 2019 in Georgetown and on the 14th of May, 2019 on NCN, we are here to advocate for Guyanese Creole to be implemented in the school’s curriculum.

Dear Editor, On Friday, 17/05/2019 I was in a minibus travelling from Anna Regina to Charity when another passenger sitting next to me was enquiring from me the fare from Anna Regina to Charity.

Dear Editor, For ministers of Government not to admit that they have made a mistake, is completely incomprehensible; it would be much better for your political career to admit making an error, than to keep insisting that you did not, especially when everyone knows that you did.