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Dear Editor, I am amazed at the unrelenting pomposity of Claude Raphael and Winston Boston.

Dear Editor, History was made in the United States when Hillary Clinton secured the required number of delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to an article that appeared in Friday’s edition of Stabroek News headlined `New Amsterdam Hospital is going downhill’.

Dear Editor, I was reading your editorial of Friday 10-06-2016 titled `Muhammad Ali’ and I want to share an incident concerning the great man.

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Friday’s release of the disturbing findings of the forensic audit into the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) coincided with the deepening of floods in Mahaica-Berbice as a result of heavy rainfall in the Mahaicony watershed and on the coast.

The Prison Disturbances and Subsequent Deaths Commission of Inquiry Report has at least established the sequence of events for what happened in the Georgetown Prison on March 3 and the days immediately preceding and following that date.

Dear Editor, It was brought to my attention on June 10, 2016 that the Audit of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) was published on the Ministry of Finance’s website.

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Dear Editor,   There is news that the Ministry of Social Protection has lamented the recent murders of women by men.

Dear Editor, The Governor of one of Venezuela’s most populous states as well as a panel of Venezuelan economists and journalists are of the view that a government of national unity is the best option for arresting the rapid decline of the economy and the social degradation currently confronting their country.

Dear Editor, Two letters that were published in the Stabroek News on June 3: ‘Pensioners should be treated in a more dignified manner’ and June 2 ‘Pensioners wait hours for money outside Blairmont Post Office’ seem to have finally gotten the attention of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC).

Dear Editor, For decades there have been complaints about the inordinate delay in dispensing justice, especially in criminal cases.

Dear Editor, The continuous impunity for violence against women is pointing to a serious dereliction of duty by the state, which has the responsibility to prevent and protect women from all forms of discrimination as enshrined in the Constitution of Guyana and the CEDAW Convention to which Guyana is signatory.

Dear Editor, Over the past week I have been carefully surfing both the Guyana Chronicle and Kaieteur News hoping to find published the Commission of Inquiry’s report on the deadly prison riot of 3rd March 2016.

Dear Editor, “The further a team or a player advances in a competition, the tougher the opponent becomes.

Dear Editor, It is an accepted fact that the general behaviour of a society is heavily influenced by the words and deeds of leaders in government and society as a whole.

Dear Editor, It seems to many of us beleaguered taxpayers that the old adage that crime pays is true, when I read what it costs the Guyana government to keep a prisoner in the Camp Street facilities.

A generation ago, President George H W Bush famously dismissed “the vision thing” when asked to consider the larger aims of his presidency.

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