Opinion

Dear Editor, As expected there is heightened interest in the wellbeing of the community on the part of those competing to become officers of the Linden municipality.

Dear Editor, In all the newspapers and on the radio and television the general public is being warned to take precautions against the spread of mosquitoes and the Zika virus by having all containers that can hold water properly covered or destroyed.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Reparations Commit-tee’s claim for land for Africans as reparation payment is flawed (‘The government should immediately freeze the granting of land leases to anyone until the reparatory land issue is addressed’, SN, March 12).

Dear Editor, Among the good news these days is the current one trending that the United States of America, during this Obama administration, has unveiled new measures to make it far easier for Americans to visit Cuba and to ease limits on the use of US dollars in trade there.

Dear Editor, The problems and issues Mike Persaud (‘LBI-Better Hope NDC has not addressed a range of problems,’ SN, Mar 11) identifies in the LBI-Better Hope NDC are common to virtually all the 71 NDCs and municipalities, and virtually none of the local governments has addressed them in any serious manner.

On Tuesday, we reported that a ten-year-old boy was taken to the Springlands Police Station by his neighbours last Saturday and an allegation made that he had stolen something from them.

Dear Editor, Because we are at a critical juncture for the progress of democracy, I feel impelled to express plainly a view that risks alienating people who have always been polite to me.

Dear Editor, Region Two has not had an effective sports department since Mr Carl Brandon was seconded to the Ministry of Sport some eight years ago.

Dear Editor, Quite recently I was in conversation with a mother who was seeking help for her daughter, who was selected with six others to participate in the Carib-bean Union of Teachers, Students Track and Field Championship in July 2016.

Dear Editor, I refer to Dr Henry Jeffrey’s response (‘Trying for five years to indicate precisely what was said’ SN, March 15).

Dear Editor, Throughout history, politics has always been about the power struggle between the masses and their leaders.

A statement last week by Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr DeLisle Worrell, indicates a certain optimism on the part of the authorities about the future of a Barbados economy which had barely indicated growth over almost a decade.

Dear Editor, It is unfortunate that the PM has become the victim of the radio licences’ issue.

Dear Editor, I once heard someone refer to these high-tech multi-feature cell phones as the book of good and evil.

Dear Editor, Mr Freddie Kissoon writes, “I have seen some pretty inept ‒ or to be kind to Henry Jeffrey ‒ naïve political analyses, one of which was too shocking for me, and I thought my objection should be published so when historians write they could make use of it; thus I replied.

Dear Editor, Mayor Hamilton Green’s letter published in the Kaieteur News on March 8, captioned ‘Hamilton Green gives his take on Rodney’s politics and death’ and in Stabroek News on March 10 titled ‘Rodney’s death was a terrible accident’ was not new.

Dear Editor, To say that local government elections are long overdue is an understatement, but despite the pronouncements by the various stakeholders, myself and scores of residents in the Eccles Housing Scheme around the First Avenue and Fourth Street area are extremely concerned about an incident which occurred on Friday, 11th March.

Dear Editor, I read in your Sunday edition (March 13) the letter by Senior Counsel Bryn Pollard about the announced preference of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo to issue additional radio licences rather than revoke those issued by former President Jagdeo (‘PM has taken wise approach in relation to broadcast licences’).