Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I live on the western side of a neighbour who has been operating a spray-painting workshop for nearly a year.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to the Universal Peace Federation’s Musical Festival of Peace and Ice Breaking Ceremony, which was held on Saturday, September, 24 at City Hall in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, During the years that the PPP was in office we saw dictatorship at all levels from local government (NDCs) to central government. 

Dear Editor, Minister Bulkan’s statement about the Town Clerk’s action in cleaning Robb Street, removing the vendors and executing what was lawful in clearing blocked passages and entrances to legitimate businesses and the filth that had accumulated because of the vendors operating there, was unfortunate and disrespectful to the Town Clerk.

Dear Editor, As in almost every former colonial territory with the English common law and a corresponding Westminster system legislature, Guyana has experienced severe challenges in terms of the guaranteed rights of the people.

Dear Editor, The US Embassy in Guyana on its official social media page, shared a vintage photograph of the late Dr Cheddi Jagan engaging with President John Kennedy during his visit to New York when he was Premier in 1961.

Dear Editor, Barbados will celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence on November 30.

Dear Editor, I learn of scores of buildings in the city alone earmarked for demolition, to be erased from landscape and memory. 

Dear Editor, The SN editorial of 26 September 2016 `Juice contract and transparency’ is a barefaced attempt at historical revisionism, seeking to excuse the obvious and blatant APNU+AFC corruption involved in the award of the fruit juice contract to a foreign company which was not the lowest bidder (and the still fresh scandal involving single sourcing of an unfinished building to serve as a drug bond) by seeking to misrepresent the PPP/C’s record in office in relation to procurement and using this misrepresentation as a smokescreen.

Dear Editor, Based on newspaper reports in September 2015 of a high-speed vehicle chase of three armed suspects in south Georgetown by the police (the Joint Special Operations Group- JSOG), I asked the question “What are the rules of engagement for the police pursuing escaping suspects?”

Dear Editor, The Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, has made a valid and timely assessment when he stated that the people should hold all contractors responsible for shoddy and substandard work done, and he hit the bull’s eye when he further contended that each citizen has a right to demand value for money.

Dear Editor, A few years ago the western section of the East Coast corridor was a very picturesque scene at night as all the road lights were in working condition and there seemed to be a maintenance programme in place to replace any defective or damaged units.

Dear Editor, Thanks for the opportunity to clarify a complaint made in a letter published in your Monday, September 26, 2016 publication, titled ‘Baffled by GTT’s service for mobile internet users’.

Dear Editor, As a former Director of the Central Housing and Planning Authority Board I have noted the vigour with which the Minister of Communities has been moving to build apartment buildings in housing schemes.

Dear Editor, I respect Dominic Gaskin very much since I think as Treasurer of the AFC he ticked all the right boxes in running a tight financial ship in the 2011 elections campaign. 

Dear Editor, Recent recruitment and procurement undertakings by UNDP Guyana bring the organization’s integrity into question.

Dear Editor, It is my belief that the newly constructed venue at Cuffy Square will now be the centre of attraction for many events in the near future.

Dear Editor, I refer to a recent statement from the Guyana Public Service Union reported in sections of the media which criticizes my remarks made at an Alliance For Change press conference held on Friday September, 23, 2016.

Dear Editor, “Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, on Saturday declared “I have to make an assessment by November” on the way forward with regard to the Venezuela border controversy with Guyana.

Dear Editor, A strange advertisement appeared in the weekend papers with “Mek 2 yuh limit”, stating that after two drinks you become a killing machine.