Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Much has been written on the pharmacy bondgate issue.

Dear Editor, I refer to the editorial captioned, ‘Sent home to die?’

Dear Editor, As a young child growing up in urban Guyana, I frequently overheard my grandmother referring to some folks having a “constitution like a horse”, an attribute that I concluded was worth aspiring towards. 

Dear Editor, I have been carefully following the recent media disclosures on a lot of important issues and matters, some of which have attracted the attention of the Guyana courts.

Dear Editor, I wish to extend my tremendous gratitude to Mr John Mair for his confidence in my potential as per his letter ‘Barista to President’ (SN, Aug 31). 

Dear Editor, A few days before Attorney General Basil Williams told newsmen in Georgetown that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is to be completely separated from the Guyana Police Force so that it can perform its core functions, lawyers and former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) senior officers in the diaspora were discussing the possibility for the role of the GDF be modified so that the army can assist in investigations and other crime-solving activities.

Dear Editor, As one reads the article titled ‘Chand says cooperation needed to resist any bid to reprivatize sugar’ that was published in the Sunday Stabroek on August 28, one gets the impression that Mr Komal Chand is saying some of the right things but in the wrong context.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), the nation’s supplier of water and sanitation services, wishes to state that it has launched an investigation to ascertain in whose name the well located in the compound of Sanata Textiles, Ruimveldt was registered.

Dear Editor, Recently, a number of car washes have been springing up in residential areas.

Dear Editor, The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial & Industrial Employees (NAACIE), is alarmed at the fact that local bauxite workers’ interests and welfare are now increasingly dependent on the priorities of expatriate ownership and management.

Dear Editor, The 2016 Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro is now over, and each participating country would be doing analysis of their performance.

Dear Editor, Allow me to congratulate Guyana’s Pre Cadet Table Tennis team on its good showing at the recent Caribbean Championship.

Dear Editor, Social cohesion is the unlived, un-sacrificed for Guyanese dream that also has been its long sweat-soaked nightmare.

Dear Editor, It is with utter dismay that I pen this letter about the harassment of drivers heading to the Timehri Airport by traffic ranks, although there have been many calls from the Traffic Chief and the Commissioner of Police denouncing this behaviour.

Dear Editor, On August 27th, a busy Saturday afternoon, on our journey back to Georgetown after a Justice and Peace Mission at Camp Kayuka, we witnessed the worst traffic jam that we have ever experienced in Guyana where traffic literally ground to a halt and engines were switched off in anger and disbelief as the police looked on helplessly.

Dear Editor, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.

Dear Editor, I would just like to give my condolences to the family of playwright Mr Freddie Kissoon, who passed away a couple of days ago as reported by the Trinidad Express.

Dear Editor, Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted to remove its first female President, Dilma Rousseff from office, the culmination of a year-long struggle that paralysed Latin America’s largest nation and exposed deep rifts among its people.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to a report in the Stabroek News of August 29, where it is said that “Guyanese writer and Cultural Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Education, Ruel Johnson, has been selected to participate in the US’s International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency.”

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) was indeed surprised to learn of the new positions of the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) that were revealed through a letter from the corporation’s Senior Communications Officer, Ms Audreyanna Thomas that appeared in the August 21 edition of Stabroek News.