Letters to the Editor

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.

Dear Editor, When I wrote my letter a few days ago expressing disapproval with the government’s final offer to the GPSU for wages and salaries increases for public servants for 2016, which was published in both SN and KN on Sunday, August 28, I made it my duty to call on Dr Rupert Roopnaraine, WPA’s representative in the APNU+AFC government and cabinet, to inform the nation on the position he took in cabinet’s deliberations on the wages and salaries issue.

Dear Editor, It has been over a year now that we the residents of Zeelugt South Block I Housing Scheme have been suffering severe air pollution due to an asphalt plant that has been constructed opposite our scheme.

Dear Editor,      This August will go down in history as a crime against international sports and humanity.

Dear Editor, I was recently taken aback while speaking with a senior official of the Child Care & Protection Agency (CCPA) when I was told that the agency would be hesitant to remove a child or children from an adult’s parentage because of the resulting outcry from the public.

Dear Editor, The National Toshaos Council meetings have recently concluded and Indigenous village leaders including myself have participated and made specific recommendations for the revision of the Amerindian Act.

Dear Editor, The day that MV Sabanto damaged the Supenaam stelling, I travelled on it from Supenaam to Parika.

Dear Editor, I write to endorse the call of GHK Lall to President David Granger to put an end to this growing bondgate scandal.

Dear Editor, Within recent weeks, the APNU+AFC government has been facing severe criticisms in relation to the highly unusual approach by Health Minister, Dr George Norton, in single sourcing the storage bond from businessman, Lawrence Singh, and misleading parliament on the arrangement.

Dear Editor, After reading yet again about the illegality of random stop and searches by police officers away from police outposts, I think that it is time that the force worked more closely with the public to bring the rogue cops to the attention of the top brass of the force.

Dear Editor, Please permit me a few column inches to thank Courts Guyana Limited for removing an animated video ad on Facebook that was flagged for racist and sexist portrayals.

Dear Editor, There is a pervasive and irritating habit which really gets one’s prickle. 

Dear Editor, The calls have been loud and many for the head of the embattled Minister of Health, Dr George Norton.

Dear Editor, Have we evolved as a nation? Have we lost all reasoning and knowledge to understand what acceptable or unacceptable behaviour among our politicians is?

Dear Editor, India celebrated her 69th Independence anniversary last August 15 in ceremonies around the country.

Dear Editor, I am delighted to see my old mucker Ruel Johnson has won a prestigious writing scholarship in the USA later this year.