Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The trade unions are to bring security guards together with the objective of representing their interests.

Dear Editor, On December 29, 2014, the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) held its last Biennial General Meeting, when Anil Beharry of the Young Warriors Cricket Club, succeeded Keith Foster of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sport Club as President, by defeating Victor Seebarran on a vote of 22 to 16.

Dear Editor, One Sunday last year I heard a radio programme on the Fire Service whereby a senior officer was saying that he had paid a visit to Linden, and being informed of the type of system that was used by the Fire Service many years ago when it was managed by the Demerara Bauxite Company (Demba), thought it the ideal system they would like to put in place.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the article ‘PPP support for term limits has not changed –Ramotar’ (SN,  February 27).

Dear Editor, Since assumption to office as president, David Granger would have taken home approximately $50 million in terms of salary, a sum which excludes any of the additional significant sums he would have obtained from frequent overseas trips.

Dear Editor, I watch events unfold, and crash one into another with unremitting intensity. 

Dear Editor, Community Development is noble work. After ten months in office as Councillors of Constituency 14: South Ruimveldt /Ruimveldt Industrial Estate, yours truly and Noelle Chow-Chee have seen tangible gains.

Dear Editor, I noticed with much pain of heart that for the 47th Republic Anniversary, President David Granger pardoned only 9 persons and all were female.

Dear Editor, I commend President Granger for the substance, tone, and sweep of his inclusive words in that Republic Day address. 

Dear Editor, My students and I for over a month have purchased lunch from a Lusignan, ECD Chinese eatery.

Dear Editor, I too, like Dr Henry Jeffrey, must beg the editor’s sufferance on a debate he provoked.

Dear Editor, At the opening ceremony of the 28th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM which was held in Guyana on February 16-17, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General and Chairman, David Granger failed once again to present meaningful and concrete policies and programmes for implementation for the social and economic growth and development of Community Members to enable them to service their heavy debts and provide employment opportunities for their people.

Dear Editor, As every cricket fan knows, the DRS was designed to improve the quality of umpiring, not to judge how good captains are at assessing whether a batsman was or was not out.

Dear Editor, As a freelancer working for National Communications Networks Inc and the Guyana Chronicle,  I find it difficult sometimes to get news and information from government officers in Region Two.

Dear Editor, Developments in France and several other Western European countries such as Britain and Germany are pointing in the direction of a rise in right wing politics. 

Dear Editor, As reported in a national newspaper on February 23, Republic Day, President David A Granger sent a most powerful and inspiring message to all the peoples of this country.

Dear Editor, There must be a solution to our governance problem.

Dear Editor, Professor Clive Thomas has a deserved reputation as an outstanding economist, particularly in sugar and monetary economics, a champion for bread and justice, for human rights and for free and fair elections.

Dear Editor, The decision by Appeal Court Justices Chancellor (ag) Carl Singh (ret’d) and Justice BS Roy, with Chief Justice (ag) Yonette Cummings-Edwards dissenting, to uphold retired Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang’s ruling that Bharrat Jagdeo can run for a third term, despite the Guyana Constitution’s requirement to the contrary, must spark a spirited debate about and acquaintance with this instrument , including through the education system.

Dear Editor, The souls of our ancestors cry from the hallowed grounds of the sugar estates for common sense; the sugar estates in large part constitute Guyana’s history insofar as it has been written.