Opinion

Dear Editor, On March 7, 2014, the Stabroek News carried an article in which Mr Norman Whittaker, Minister in the Ministry of Local Government is reported as asserting that the “vast majority of the populace is not prepared for the holding of local government polls by August 1st” and that “to go ahead would result in the waste of a lot of money.”

Dear Editor,   In SN of February 21, I read with great sadness about a robbery on Sunil and Tina Ramesh across from GT&T on Church Street. 

The government received justified commendation for announcing last year that a commission of inquiry would be held into the death of Dr Walter Rodney in 1980.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to everyone belonging to the female class of the human species. 

Dear Editor, The Guyana Defence Force notes an article published in the Wednesday, March 5 edition of the Stabroek News which reportedly quoted Lt Colonel (rtd) George Gomes, making comments on the workings of its Force Welfare Fund (FWF).

Dear Editor, I read with great concern a report in the local media that the Council of Legal Education (CLE) will not automatically place 25 UG Bachelor of Law (LLB) students at the Hugh Wooding Law School.

Dear Editor, I was very humbled and privileged to chair a talk by Walter Rodney’s widow, Dr Patricia Rodney, at the Embassy of Guyana in Beijing last September on his rich legacy.

Dear Editor, Rev Gideon Cecil must be astute enough to recognize nepotism when he sees it (‘The Caribbean Press must be commended,’ SN, March 6).

Dear Editor, Your news item in the Wednesday, March 5 edition, ‘Freed accomplice was 13 during Lusignan massacre –sources,’ has failed to capture some angles in the saga of Dwane Williams, the youth who confessed to being present at the Lusignan, Lindo Creek and Bartica massacres.

Dear Editor, It is with consternation that I read of little Andy whose body was found in Foulis, and the 48 children found not attending school in the Sophia area.

Last week, in a statement that quickly went viral, a Washington-based anchor for the Russia Today television network resigned on air.

Dear Editor, I read your reprint of the report in the Trinidad Express of Mr Nicholas Seucharran’s ultimate act of selflessness but could not understand your belittling enclosure of the word hero in inverted commas.

Dear Editor, As a student of Zeeburg Secondary School I am ashamed of my home away from home.

Dear Editor, I have been following the Lamaha Gardens playground sale and for reference reproduce the contents of the tender notice placed in the Guyana Chronicle on November 16, 2012 below.

Dear Editor, I am not going to rehash some of the pervasive concerns with Vishnu Bisram and the cloud of suspicion, manipulation, bias  and tampering that perpetually hangs over his ‘polls’ with respect to sample size, sample manipulation, demographic errors, selective sampling, improper poll questions and the like.

Dear Editor, The Reverend Gideon Cecil’s evasive and at times outright false missive (‘The Caribbean Press should be commended for its willingness to publish young writers,’ SN, March 6) is yet another example of the embarrassing lengths to which the Ministry of Culture is willing to go to distract attention from  issues of accountability affecting the Caribbean Press I’m going to ignore the red herring commentaries on the quality of my prize-winning work, as well as his adoption of Dr David Dabydeen’s discredited argument that my interrogation of the press is some elaborate extortion mechanism, and deal instead with his claims relevant to the issues at hand.

Dear Editor, This February, the AKWAABA Centre of the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) was a hive of cultural and economic activity for the celebration of African History Month.

Dear Editor, I am quite surprised that such a trivial matter, involving the use of an ATV by a youngster during a recent cricket match at the Enmore Community Centre was publicized in your letter column (‘Save the Enmore Community Centre from these obnoxious individuals,’ SN, February 25).

Dear Editor, On Monday, February 24, a daughter of Guyana’s soil, stalwart of the Christian faith and missionary from Georgetown to Akawini in the Pomeroon died at the golden age of 87 years.