Opinion

Dear Editor, The People’s National Congress Reform Biennial Congress is July 25 to July 27.

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me, through the medium of your letter columns, to enquire of the Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Power and Light Company the reason it does not have an emergency power supply to facilitate its customers who visit the New Amsterdam commercial office to conduct business during a power outage.

Dear Editor, While the statistics following may not be totally comprehensive, they are the best that could be gleaned from none other than the West Indian Law Reports, as well as Law Reports of the Commonwealth.

Dear Editor, Almost every day when I walk down the streets of Mahdia the people would ask me what is the Regional Democratic Council doing about the deplorable roads.

Dear Editor, I read the Government of Guyana’s call for the release of the Al Jazeera journalists jailed by Egypt with a mixture of sadness, amusement, outrage and revulsion.

Dear Editor, In recent times we have seen an increase in the abuse of teachers, which is most disgusting and needs to be addressed.

In a series of short interviews leading up to this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the BBC World Service has been asking athletes, their supporters and cultural personalities from around the Commonwealth, to choose a piece of music that inspires them.

Dear Editor, Allow me to register my disappointment and frustration against NCN for stopping MovieStar from telecasting the ongoing FIFA World Cup football matches by way of court injunction.

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Dear Editor, Though I am currently on leave from the National Gallery, I am obliged to respond, as the gallery’s Curator and Director of programmes, to the article in your Sunday, May 25 last edition and your extraordinary supporting editorial of Thursday, May 29, which prominently gave vent to the sensational but unfounded claims of the distinguished artist Bernadette Persaud; unfounded because these are based not on any current knowledge or verified facts that she may have regarding the National Gallery’s operations, or the state of storage and conservation of our art collection, but on selective editing of the facts at her disposal.

Dear Editor, Now the dust from the UG-Hugh Wooding Law School sandstorm has temporarily settled, it behooves me as a quondam participant in the recurrent imbroglio to set the record straight based on historical reflections.

Dear Editor, I attended the ‘National Conversation on a Clean Guyana’ on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at the Amerindian Village, Sophia Exhibition Site.

Dear Editor, Since the Christian leader’s anti-gay comments, only one person has come out and expressed condemnation and dissatisfaction.

Dear Editor, As June 30 approaches I have to search for several thousand dollars to pay city taxes for the third quarter.

Dear Editor, Guyanese are on Facebook and Twitter and many read letters in the newspapers.

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Dear Editor, The funniest of story coming out of Guyana was to read about a reporter who quit his/her job in 2012 just after receiving a supposedly rare British Guiana 1832 coin from the owner, and was then pressured into returning the coin.

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Commuters around Georgetown may have seen him – a young man, possibly in his early 20s, dressed in a dirty neon green t-shirt, neon green lens-less plastic eyewear and torn pants.

Dear Editor, Those who should be concerned would wish to know that in a conversation on Dr Grantley Walrond’s ‘Spotlight’ on Thursday, June 19, 2014, the interviewees, Dr Pat Francis and Dr Mellissa Ifill of the University of Guyana, revealed they welcomed the news that the administration had approved raising the retirement age of lecturers (and presumably other categories of staff) from sixty years to sixty-five years.