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Dear Editor, On Monday May 23, during a rehearsal for the Independence flag-raising ceremony in Georgetown, the organizers of the event saw it fit to set off fireworks at D’Urban Park.

Dear Editor, Permit me, please, to share with your readers an unpleasant yet instructive experience I had recently.

Dear Editor, Having failed to contact the Minister of Tourism, I am voicing my concerns here for the government to see.

Dear Editor, Anyone reading the Stabroek News editorial of Tuesday, May 24 cannot escape the impression that it is based on an actual reading of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Guyana Public Service.

Dear Editor, I read your editorial this morning and wish to point you to a minor correction in paragraph 8, ie, the Micoud South constituency was the original seat of Sir John Compton.

Dear Editor A call is made to the Chairman and Councillors of the newly elected body of the Little Diamond/Herstelling NDC to restore the burial ground where the remains of the village’s departed are entombed or buried.

Dear Editor, On the eve of Guyana’s 50th celebrations I would like to point out the ancient wisdom of Confucius who noted in a nutshell that society collapses when government costs more than taxpayers can afford.

Dear Editor, As we celebrate our Independence Jubilee, many of us will be thinking of the next 50 years and how best to lay a foundation for a happy, prosperous future.

Dear Editor, The Region Three Chamber of Commerce is daunted by the many ills pervading our region and  the people as a whole.

Dear Editor, May 26 is upon us. Again. Many Guyanese know it to be the date of Guyana’s Independence.

Dear Editor, It has been one year since the APNU+AFC took power.

Dear Editor, Fifty years young can be a good feeling.  It has all the freshness, excitement and awe of the first fifty minutes of a new existence. 

Independence was born in circumstances of discord, and fifty years on the nation is still imprisoned in the straitjacket of that past.

Dear Editor, In my letter of May 18, I addressed the twin issues of life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth only cursorily.

Dear Editor, I was most touched to read the memories of Independence recalled by Mr Laurie Greenidge, (‘Independence Day at the Palms, SN, May 13), in particular his playing of Guyana’s national anthem on the piano during the visit of the Duchess of Kent to the Palms during the celebrations in May 1966.

Dear Editor, What does it take for the ranks of the Lethem Police Station to take action on a report made about an alleged child molestation?

Dear Editor Please permit me to again make another clarion call for the injustice committed on members of the Guyana Police Force to be corrected.

Dear Editor, Finance Minister Winston Jordan is reported in the media to have said that a review will be commissioned by the IMF before any reduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) could be entertained.