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Dear Editor, Comments by Dr Rudi V Webster likening the state of West Indies cricket to the Titanic disaster brought forcibly home to me that even in the area of sports administration there are anomalies devoid of rationale.

Dear Editor, On Friday, via the news media we learnt of the death of Harper Lee, the novelist whose book gave us a child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town in the United States of America.

Wednesday’s signing of a US$3m grant deal between Guyana and the World Bank is a significant development on two counts.

Dear Editor, The Justice for Walter Rodney Committee calls on President Granger and the APNU+AFC coalition government to release the report of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry without further delay.

What might be considered a minor contretemps in the National Assembly on Wednesday could have more serious implications.

Dear Editor, Many universities across the world are transforming themselves to accommodate new and fast-changing realities.

Dear Editor, President Granger should do the right thing and immediately lay the Dr Walter Rodney Commission of Enquiry Report before Parliament, and/or make the contents public, and further ensure that the Commission’s recommendations, whatever they are, are fully implemented.

Dear Editor, On Monday, January 18, 2016 the Aurora Primary and Nursery School building which once also housed the secondary school was dismantled by a contactor in order that a new concrete and wooden building could be erected on the very site.

Dear Editor, The report in SN captioned ‘Agri Ministry challenges severance projection for Wales workers’ that was published on February 16 reflects a clear unwillingness to consider any alternative to the GuySuCo management’s position to close Wales estate.

Dear Editor, Earlier reference was made to states of minds in which so many of us are locked so far as the transitioning of the industry is concerned, and the requirement for such an important business entity to respond to the realities of the global environment by which it is impacted in this 21st century.

Dear Editor, The protest by the workers on Thursday, 18th February at the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) Georgetown, against their union, the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) and its leader, Carvil Duncan, is an interesting development, and needs to be addressed and contextualised not merely by how one feels, but within the laws, conventions, charters and time-honoured principles which are extant.

Dear Editor, The emoluments received by the Guyana Police Force members derive from the taxpayers of Guyana.

Dear Editor, The sugar workers of Wales estate should have been allowed, at the very least, to exercise their right to free speech in parliament, and speak about their estate closure.

In Ciudad Juarez earlier this week, Pope Francis spoke of the “humanitarian crisis” of mass migration and human trafficking.

Dear Editor, “Not one dollop less of patriotism in us of the PPP/C, now sitting in the opposition benches, when compared with you in the government seats,” our Leader of the Opposition (LOP), visibly disturbed, was moved to firmly assert as he wound up the budget debate for the opposition.

Dear Editor, I support the call by Isabelle de Caires for the government to lay out its detailed plans for Wales Sugar Estate, but more importantly for there to be the widest possible public debate on this issue in the parliament as well as in every town hall meeting in the country.

Dear Editor, Visnu Bisram’s letter in the February 18 edition of Stabroek News titled ‘The NY committee for the Jubilee is not representative of the Guyanese population’ references “AFC members” who are dissatisfied with the NY 50th Anniversary plans.

Dear Editor, 1) There has been much debate at the level of the National Assembly and much public discourse and comment on the second budget presented by the APNU+AFC government since it took office in May 2015.