Opinion

Dear Editor, In an SN article of May 3, it was reported that prolonged flooding of a large section of eastern Queenstown, Georgetown, due to heavy rainfall on April 30-May 1 was avoided as a result of intervention by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) and City Hall to clear blocked culverts in Queenstown, one of which was under Peter Rose Street discharging into a drainage channel immediately west of Vlissengen Road.

Dear Editor, The Environmental Protection Act No 11 of 1996 (EP Act) clearly states under Part II ‒ Establishment and Functions of the Agency ‒ “In the exercise of its functions the agency shall (a) compile and amend from time to time with the assistance of internationally recognized environmental groups a list of persons who have the qualifications and experience to carry out environmental impact assessment”.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Christopher Ram’s letter in the Sunday Stabroek of 8th May, addressed to Mr Jerome Khan, in which he invites Mr Khan to comment on the role of President Granger in the context of Article 24 of the Lease Agreement between the Government and Ogle Airport Inc.

Dear Editor, My question to Mr Jerome Khan about Article 24 of the Government of Guyana-Ogle Airport Inc Lease Agreement has obviously touched his evolving political nerve.

Dear Editor, National religious holiday messages to commemorate the events, issued by a variety of entities including political parties, trade unions, corporations, etc, almost invariably refer to and ask the rest of us to rejoice in Guyana as a land of diversity: religious, cultural, and ethnic.  

Dear Editor, Yesterday SN carried an interesting lead article on its front page reporting on the “jockeying” for leadership positions in Guyana’s oldest political party.

Dear Editor, It appears as if there is some difficulty by the various editors of the four major newspapers in Guyana to accept that the oldest skeleton found in this region belongs to Luzia.

Dear Editor, It is hard to think of the Davids ‒ Cameron and Granger ‒ as black widow spiders.

Dear Editor, Dr Hinds is someone whose writings I have always admired and respected.

Dear Editor, I grew up in the village of Bachelors Adventure on the East Coast of Demerara, a village that felt the brunt of the attack on the enslaved Africans who were agitating for their freedom from slavery on the plantations in Demerara on the 20th of August 1823.

Dear Editor, This is the moment in our history that calls for inspiring, thoughtful, out-of-the-box personages, who must be never less than patriotic. 

Dear Editor, While the Western Union outlets countrywide make it easy for the different types of payment, sometimes this is not always so.

Dear Editor, In Elton McRae’s missive ‘Baroness Amos should not be guest of honour at NY independence celebration’ (SN, May 5), the names of Martin Carter, Sydney King, Hubert Critchlow, Burnham, Gaskin, Kendall and John were mentioned,  in addition to a general “others”, who fought for Guyana’s independence.

The ensuing Lailac milk brouhaha involving the Ministry of Public Health, the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) and the private sector distributor, International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA), lays bare the longstanding and abject weakness of the authorities in the matter of the effective enforcement of regulations that have to do with monitoring the importation of foreign-manufactured foods into the country.

Politikles

Dear Editor, In a recent article published by the Stabroek News (April 20) carrying the headline ‘Masakenari hooked up to internet’, it was stated that “Masakenari, a Wai Wai village in the deep south of Guyana now has an internet connection after complaining about the difficulty in communicating with the rest of the country”.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Wendell Jeffrey’s letter titled, ‘On May 26 Granger has the opportunity to distance himself from the racially divisive behaviours of the past’ (SN, May 2). 

Dear Editor, I have the greatest regard for Mr. L. Christopher Ram, for fearlessly fighting against executive abuse and lawlessness.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education had promoted the Interactive Radio Instruction Programme in all primary schools in Guyana as the mathematics curricula delivery vehicle for Grades 1 to 3.

Dear Editor, I welcome Harry Hergash’s information on the Austin Princess used by Burnham (SN, May 6) captioned ‘Burnham’s first car as PM was an Austin Princess’.